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The Lancet (Volume 374, Issue 9695) - Women's rights advocates were jubilant last week when, after 3 years of negotiations, the UN General Assembly voted to create a new UN agency for women. The resolution, passed by the 192 UN member states, calls for the merger of the organisation's four existing offices dedicated to women's issues: the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women, the Division for the Advancement of Women, and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women. It states that the new agency is to be led by an Under-Secretary General who would report directly to the Secretary-General. And it calls on the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, to produce a comprehensive proposal for the new agency to be considered at the 64th UN General Assembly (Sept 23—30).

NAIROBI, 18 September 2009 (PlusNews) - AIDS activists around the world have welcomed a new UN General Assembly resolution to create a single agency to promote the rights and wellbeing of women, which they say is good news for women, who are bearing the brunt of the global AIDS pandemic.
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UN women's agency: Guys, what took you so long?

LONDON (AlertNet) - After years of foot-dragging, the U.N. General Assembly has finally approved a resolution to create a high-level agency for women's rights, which supporters have hailed as a historic breakthrough.
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U.N. assembly votes for more powerful women's agency

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly voted on Monday to create a new, more powerful agency for women, in a move supporters hailed as a breakthrough for women's equality and rights.
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SPEAKING UP
A regular column reacting to HIV news and developments. From AIDS-Free World’s Director of Communications Sohaila Abdulali:
THE DEBATES
Every approach to HIV/AIDS has pros and cons, but most are thrashed out behind closed doors. In The Debates, introduced here with a few initial topics, we’ll move those discussions into the public domain.
- A UN agency for women
- Questioning the statistics

THE AGENDA
AIDS-Free World takes on the most critical issues affecting populations from Africa to the Caribbean, Asia and beyond. The Agenda items listed so far offer a sampling of topics we will probe in this section.
UN WOMEN'S AGENCY
People want and deserve to be kept informed about the newly approved UN women's agency, now under construction. Follow AIDS-Free World's written exchanges with the UN Deputy Secretary-General, and check this spot for news about the global search for the woman who will lead the new agency, and other developments as they unfold.