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May 30, 2012
UNDP vacancy: Gender Practice Leader - Bangkok

The United Nations Development Programme is seeking a Gender Practice Leader for its regional centre in Bangkok, Thailand.

May 30, 2012
UNDP: 54th Commission on the Status of Women - Beijing Plus 15

An overview of UNDP's engagement at the 54th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to be held from March 1 to March 12, 2010.

May 30, 2012
UNDP: Beijing + 15 Highlights of the Day - 1st March 2010

BEIJING+ 15 OPENS; LEADERS AND ACTIVISTS GATHER TO REVIEW PROGRESS ON GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT The 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women opened at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday, bringing together UN senior officials, ministers, heads of delegations, activis

May 30, 2012
UNDP: Beijing + 15 Highlights of the Day - 2nd March 2010

The Commission on the Status of Women was in full swing on Tuesday, with countries continuing to report on progress since Beijing and UNDP participating in side events on HIV/AIDS, the Beijing Platform for Action’s links to achieving the MDGs, and considerations of gender in the mitigation of and

May 30, 2012
UNDP: Beijing + 15 Highlights of the Day - 3rd March 2010

Women Must Be Involved and Funded in Post-Crisis Responses“Women are not heard, not respected and not funded,” said Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, at the UNDP/UNIFEM panel discussion, “The Price of Peace: Financing Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction.” Robins

May 30, 2012
IPU: Beijing goals on women in politics still unmet, new report finds

New York/Geneva, 3 March 2010 - No. 336Taking stock of women’s political participation today gives cause for guarded satisfaction. Fifteen years after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, overall improvements have been registered in parliamentary and executive spheres of government.

May 30, 2012
UNDP: Beijing + 15 Highlights of the Day - 4th March 2010

Regional perspectives in progress achieved and remaining gaps and challenges in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action On Thursday, representatives of the UN’s five regional commissions presented regional perspectives in progress achieved and remaining gaps and challenges in the i

May 30, 2012
IDEA: Latin America: Politics and Parties: Without Equality, Far from Parity

The new decade begins with the election of another woman president. Laura Chinchilla, candidate for the Partido Liberación Nacional, won the presidential race in Costa Rica with 46.8 percent of the vote.

May 30, 2012
Nepal: Progress on Women Front Slow: UNDP

Women in the Asia Pacific region have the lowest rates of representation in politics, employment and property ownership, a new report presented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has revealed.The Asia Pacific Human Development report on gender, which was made public on the occasio