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In July 2006, the office of the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa wrote a position paper describing what's wrong with the UN's sexist, outdated approach to half the world's population and how it must change, and submitted a critique to a High-Level Panel charged with suggesting measures to reform the world body. Four months later, the panel presented its recommendations to the General Assembly — high among them, the long overdue creation of United Nations agency for women. The panel issued a series of recommendations on how the UN could achieve system-wide coherence on issues related to development, humanitarian assistance and the environment. The panel issued its recommendations to the General Assembly in September 2006. In its report, the panel requested the creation of a United Nations agency for women. Read the position paper, Gender Equality: Now or Never. Bookmark this article with any of these social bookmarking sites:           |
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- SPEAKING UPA 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.
- 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.
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