Gender equality and empowerment of women

C. Gender equality and women's empowerment

E. Gender equality and the empowerment of women

Bosnia and Herzegovina has made a significant progress in guaranteing legal Equality to women, since de jure there were no obstacles for strengthening position of women in society and their affirmation.

Article 3 Equal rights of women and men

Goal 3 (promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women).

If the offence stated under the first or the second paragraph of this Article is committed by the official by misuse of his her position, this person is sentenced to the imprisonment of up to three years.

Education for women was vital for gender equality in Ethiopia.

Recognizing the importance of science and technology in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women,

C. Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women (gender and environment)

The emphasis was to be equality for everyone, rather than protection for women.

The Republic of Tajikistan is taking the necessary measures to ensure equal rights for women and men in terms of employment.

The Millennium Development Goals include a goal that calls for empowering women and promoting gender equality.

Activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the empowerment of rural women and gender equality

Differences between women and men must be taken into account in achieving substantive equality.

The representative stressed that gender equality was a priority for the Government of Benin.

In Armenia, work was under way to improve the situation of women and promote gender equality.

Women's health promotion could be a practical approach to achieve greater gender equity.

The Constitution, therefore, provides a clear basis for accelerating equality between women and men through affirmative action.

In that regard, Ghana has established a Ministry of Women's and Children's Affairs to spearhead policies and programmes to promote gender equality and enhance the status of women.

The increasing partnerships between Governments and civil society on the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment constitute a positive development.

Welcoming the United Nations Millennium Declaration and its call for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,

Activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the empowerment of rural women and gender equality

However, violence against women continued to be a major obstacle to the achievement of gender equality.

Nevertheless, we have attained neither the implementation of women's human rights nor equality between women and men.

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.

We also encourage full gender equality, which will eliminate stereotypes of the image of women in order to allow egalitarian access to education and employment for women.

One important strategy for enhancing the enabling environment for gender equality would be to more directly and explicitly link the legal and policy frameworks for promoting gender equality.

A basic step towards improving the status of women would be to reduce illiteracy among women and ensure they had equal access to education.

Women's representation in parliament is also an indicator for achieving Millennium Development Goal 3 on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.

4. Invites Member States to initiate sports programmes to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women

In most countries, de facto equality between women and men in political participation was yet to be achieved.

Women's participation in governance and decision making was a major determinant of the level of success achieved in the area of gender equality.

Since the submission of the last report by Estonia, the number of institutions dealing with the promotion of equality between women and men has increased.

Such a recognition is also reflected in the Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The following year, 2005, would provide a number of important opportunities for further promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment.

The participation of men and boys in attaining gender equality was coherent with the empowerment of women and girls.

Mr. Daniel Meron, Director of International Organizations and Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and colleagues

9 Taking Action Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women (Millennium Project, Task Force on Education and Gender Equality, 2005).

The commitment to achieve gender equality and justice included in the 1999 Broad Guidelines of State Policy specifically calls for the empowerment of women to achieve gender equality and justice.

In line with its international commitments, Ecuador had made important progress on the rights of Ecuadorian women and the institutionalization of policies that benefited women and sought to achieve gender equality.

To promote gender equality and the empowerment of women as effective ways to combat poverty, hunger and disease and to stimulate development that is truly sustainable.

Reaffirming the United Nations Millennium Declaration and its call for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,

Family law also allows for Equality of women and men in the choice of reproduction and the right to means for the achievement of this choice.

Post conflict transition, recovery and reconstruction cannot be achieved if gender equality and the promotion of women's rights are absent.