To promote gender equality is to promote progress towards global development.

Progress towards promoting gender equality has been significant since 1946, when the equality of the sexes was first promulgated in the DPRK.

UNDP has invested resources, promoted policies and monitored progress towards gender equality within the organization.

The delegation would urge the Government to forge ahead with its efforts towards gender equality.

The affirmation of the centrality of gender equality to human rights, human development and human security had provided new momentum to the journey towards gender equality.

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

Efforts towards gender equality should be integrated as part of States' investments in all of the Millennium Development Goals.

Indeed, intellectuals and politicians of all varieties almost unanimously hail the politics of caste identity as a move towards true equality.

There is no question that the laws and regulations in force go a long way towards affirming the dignity and social equality of women.

Ms. Cinar (Turkey) said that, while there had been some problems concerning the media's attitude towards equality, the Government was addressing the issue through, for example, programmes aimed at raising awareness of gender equality and the importance of image.

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.

Important progress towards actual (de facto) gender equality was made with the provision of Article 116, paragraph 2, which was introduced in the 2001 Constitutional revision.

By making use of all of its assets, Turkey is contributing to regional stability and peace and working towards a global order based on justice, equality, and transparency.

Yet equality before the law was not the same as equality in rights or gender equality.

The Committee calls on the State party to assess progress towards the achievement of women's de facto equality in all sectors and provide that information in the next report.

They note that despite considerable progress, gender equality among young people remains a pressing issue, particularly because attitudes towards women are formed during the transformational years of young adulthood.

In respect to the previous work of the competent and all other institutions towards the improvement of women's position and gender equality, the priorities would be set as follows

Alliances with the media and other opinion makers have proved successful in facilitating change in societal attitudes towards women and promoting positive images of equality between men and women.

Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

The goal is to work towards empowerment and leadership building, as well as advance knowledge regarding inequality issues between the genders, develop self awareness, and change positions on gender equality.

We cannot afford to delay in bringing about a radical change in the rules that currently govern economic relations among States, because, while in the United Nations we are slowly progressing towards equality and agreement, the world is rushing towards an abyss of inequality and disagreement.

Stimulating Equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

These challenges are even greater if one takes into account the need for public policies to be geared towards improving equality between men and women and to reflect the country's multicultural reality.

The educational revolution is an axis of social cohesion and the road towards equality, the redistribution of income, and the opening of new channels for social mobility, without which democracy will remain incomplete.

To that end, the State party had an obligation to address social and cultural attitudes which hindered progress towards equality for women, and to ensure that women received an equal and adequate education.

In addition to the Employment Equality Act and the Equal Status Act he had just mentioned, equality was promoted by an Equality Authority.

The legal equality that women enjoy does not necessarily translate into factual equality.

Based on the Gender Equality Act the Gender Equality Council will be established.

Equality or Estrangement

Happiness Is Equality

Education for Equality

Equality of Access

Office for Equality

Gender Equality Act

Gender Equality Council

Promoting gender equality

Welcoming progress made towards achieving gender equality, but stressing that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty third special session,

Welcoming progress made towards achieving gender equality, but stressing that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty third special session,

The 10 year review of the Beijing Platform for Action conclusively showed the uneven progress towards achieving gender equality, even though the normative environment at the national, regional and global levels indicated improvements overall.

Welcoming progress made towards achieving gender equality, but stressing that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty third special session,

The Convention and the Platform for Action comprise, respectively, legally binding obligations and policy commitments towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and the realization of equality of women and men.

This had further encouraged discussion of the roles and responsibilities of women and men working together towards gender equality and the need for changing those stereotypical and traditional roles that limit women's full potential.