Promoting greater gender equity.

There has been an exponential growth in secondary, higher and university education. Gender parity in access to and duration of education has also been achieved at all levels.

Promoting greater gender equity is one of the ten priority areas of the National Health Policy.

Guatemala is therefore close to achieving gender parity in access to primary education (parity rate of 0.95 in 2004).

At this rate, gender parity in national legislatures will not be achieved until 2068.

Without positive action, it would take 227 years to achieve gender parity in the Turkish Parliament.

The Committee expressed concern about continuing gender disparities regarding educational choices of boys and girls.

Of eighty three developing nations for which data are available, only half have achieved gender parity at the primary level, less than one fifth have attained gender parity at the secondary level and only four at the tertiary level.

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

UNESCO intensified its efforts and work with its partners and governments to address the barriers impeding girls and women's full participation in order to make the goal of gender parity and equality a reality in 2015.

The world has already missed the first and perhaps the most critical of all the Millennium Development Targets gender parity in primary and secondary education.

In addition, these institutions must ensure that the curricula, the study material and the research carried out will contribute to the elimination of inequality between women and men and to the promotion of gender equality.

Bangladesh had the highest primary school enrolment rates in the developing world and had already achieved gender parity in both primary and secondary schools.

We removed school fees for primary education, and the net enrolment rate increased from 58.8 per cent in 2000 to 90.5 per cent last year and gender parity has been attained.

The objectives and activities of the project must be in conformity with the priority topics announced at the project competition of the Ministry of Social Affairs and should contribute to the reduction of gender inequality and promotion of equality.

In fact, entire countries have a built in egalitarian streak.

The composition of the consultative body will be determined through the discussions with key stakeholders which began at the Global Youth Congress in September 2004, and will take into consideration not least gender balance and regional representation.

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

Gender equality

Equality of the sexes

The international community must continue to address the root causes of poverty and gender inequities, including the unequal access of girls and women to resources and opportunities that empower them to make the choices that affect their lives.

D. Gender balance

Gender equality

Gender Equality Act

Gender Equality Council

Gender equality

R. Gender

The Gender Equality Act provides for the creation of a new institution the Gender Equality Commissioner.

The Gender Equality Commissioner has the duty to monitor the compliance with the norms established in the Act.

Special provisions were needed to establish functional equivalence between electronic communications and other types of documents.

The Gender Equality Council approves the general guidelines of gender equality policy, consults the Government on issues of strategy for the promotion of gender equality and presents to the Government its position on the conformity with the Gender Equality Act of national programmes submitted by the ministries.

Gender Equality as a Development Goal

Gender equality and empowerment of women

(a) Gender equality factors

Women's position and gender equality

i. Gender Equity Policy

European policies for gender equality

Gender equality in legal acts

The Gender Equality Commissioner

Promoting gender equality

Gender Balance Among WFP Staff

63. Encourages the Secretary General to achieve parity in the six official languages in United Nations radio production

America now has the distinction of being among the advanced countries that afford the least equality of opportunity to their citizens.

It is therefore appropriate to ensure equivalence, in terms of reliability, between messages exchanged in electronic form and paper documents.

Encourages the Secretary General to achieve parity in the six official languages in United Nations Radio production