A High-Level Women’s Agency For The United (Open)

A High-Level Women’s Agency For The United Nations (2007, No. 2)

The 29th IFUW Conference resolves:

  • that IFUW strongly urge the United Nations (U.N.) to establish and maintain a high-level agency for women headed by a woman Under-Secretary-General, with regular sustainable funding, and with the resources and mandate to initiate and operate programmes at the country level; and
  • that the national federations and associations (NFAs) encourage their own governments to support this high-level agency for women.

Plan of Action

  • IFUW to monitor developments in and promote the establishment of a high-level women’s agency in the United Nations;
  • NFAs to urge their governments to support a high-level women’s agency;
  • NFAs to promote firm support of such an agency in their countries by raising public awareness of the need for such an agency and by joining women’s networks to strengthen the voices of women in achieving this goal; and
  • NFAs to continue to stress the need for women to be included in decision-making roles.

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