Article 5 Role of Gender and Prejudices

10. Support for women s reproductive role to reduce gender inequity

We play an essential role in putting gender in the global policy agenda.

Given their Resident Coordinator role, UNDP Resident Representatives should provide leadership on gender equality issues and gender mainstreaming within the United Nations system.

A special role within Parliaments is on the gender equality commissions, as parliament working groups.

The catalytic role of national mechanisms for women, including ministries, gender equality commissions and committees and parliamentary bodies, in supporting gender mainstreaming should be strengthened.

This study develops a method for exposing structural gender discrimination, based on the literature on the construction of gender and the role played by gender in the drafting of law and public policy.

The gender Institute ', co managed by UNDP and the Smithsonian Institution, has trained over 600 participants on the role of men in gender equality and women's empowerment.

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) played a key role in promoting gender equality worldwide.

They also recognized the role of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women to integrate a gender perspective in United Nations activities.

UNDP must reconfirm its commitment to gender mainstreaming at all levels, taking into account that its role is separate from and complementary to the role of UNIFEM as an advocate for women and incubator of new approaches to women's empowerment and gender equality.

Various curriculum initiatives had been undertaken to revise the content of courses, adding material on gender issues, the role of women in Irish history and gender participation and democracy.

Subsequently, UNAMA has enhanced the role by establishing a Gender Unit consisting of a gender adviser (ad interim pending recruitment), a gender officer and national staff operating within the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General.

Women's organizations continue to play an active and valuable role in the promotion of gender equality in Israel.

The media plays an important role in recreating and reinforcing gender stereotypes as well as shaping new attitudes.

UNDP could play a leading role in shaping an informed gender mainstreamed approach to post crisis development strategy.

Kenya affirms the centrality of gender equality and recognizes the critical role that women must play in development.

As the country progressed towards achieving greater gender equality, the role of the Government had been consistently supportive.

For each target objective an assessment was made of the role played by gender difference in the problems encountered.

A delegation requested further information on basic education, gender equality and the role of UNICEF in the education sector.

Taking into account the catalytic role of the Commission in promoting gender mainstreaming, an interactive dialogue on capacity building on gender mainstreaming in relation to the substantive theme would be organized.

The national policy framework on women's empowerment and gender equality of South Africa outlines the role of the national machinery and all other Government structures in advancing the national gender programme.

59. Calls upon the United Nations development system to consider the role of men and boys in gender mainstreaming policies

a) Gender socially established role of women and men in public and private life different from sex as a biological determination.

The units could play a catalytic role in initiating and monitoring the process of gender mainstreaming in the national statistical systems

Note that gender based violence, including domestic violence, plays a particularly insidious role in teaching and perpetuating a culture of violence.

Note that gender based violence, including domestic violence, plays a particularly insidious role in teaching and perpetuating a culture of violence.

The Department of Economic and Social Affairs confirmed that the role of the Special Adviser is to counsel the Secretary General on gender and to facilitate inter agency collaboration and coordination to achieve gender equality and integrate gender perspectives in all programmes and policies.

The Department of Economic and Social Affairs stated that the role of the Special Adviser was to counsel the Secretary General on gender and to facilitate inter agency collaboration and coordination to achieve gender equality and integrate gender perspectives in all programmes and policies.

With technical assistance from UNDP and the UNAMA Gender Unit, the Ministry has played a leading role to ensure gender mainstreaming in the follow up to and implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

We welcome the focus on gender equality in development issues, but we would also like to see a focus on gender equality and the role of women in efforts to promote peace and conflict resolution.

The method elaborated here, combined with GIA, can play an important role in the mainstreaming of gender issues throughout the policy process.

In this connection, the Committee draws attention to the role of the Special Adviser of the Secretary General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, who chairs the Inter Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality.

(d) Strengthening the role of national institutional mechanisms for gender equality and the advancement of women, including through financial and other appropriate assistance

VCT counsellors can also play a role in preventing gender based violence when trained to observe confidentiality and ask questions about partner violence.

(d) Strengthening the role of national institutional mechanisms for gender equality and the advancement of women, including through financial and other appropriate assistance

General studies There have been few studies of the causality of women's behavior and interests, when they do not match the female gender role.

The book addresses themes of sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide, dysfunctional family life, and the role of literature in understanding oneself and one's family.

UNHCR contributed to a series of GCIM organized thematic meetings on topics ranging from migration and gender to the role of regional consultative processes.

In two of its resolutions addressing the role of the United Nations system, the General Assembly made specific proposals for action on gender equality.

Together with a local non governmental organization, UNIFEM provided gender training for electoral commissioners to increase their understanding of women's role in the election process.

The ODIHR's Gender Unit, for which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Directorate General for International Cooperation provides funding, plays an important role in these efforts.

The requests related largely to the issue of gender balance but also included a request to clarify the role of departmental focal points on women.

In 2003, the Open Society Institute conducted a gender equality monitoring survey commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs with the aim to find out the opinions and attitudes of society towards gender equality and the role of women and men.

Reaffirms the primary and essential role of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, as well as the central role of the Commission on the Status of Women, in promoting the advancement of women and gender equality