The purpose of this GSIM tool is to facilitate gender equality and women empowerment in and through media of all forms, irrespective of the technology used.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who will stand for re-election in October 2011, shares her dream that Liberia would become a beacon for gender equality and women leadership, across the world.
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Instead, this new effort involves workers, suppliers and companies as active partners in efforts to improve child and maternal health, promote gender equality and empower women, combat disease, strengthen local communities and protect the environment wherever they do business.
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President Obama knows that promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls at home and abroad is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do, as Secretary Clinton has famously said.
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland calls for ending discriminatory practices such as child marriage, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu points out the important role of men and boys in achieving gender equality for girls and women.
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To elevate and integrate this strategic focus on the promotion of gender equality and the advancement of women and girls around the world, executive departments and agencies (agencies) have issued policy and operational guidance.
Improving interagency coordination and information sharing, and strengthening agency capacity and accountability will help ensure the effective implementation of these and other Government efforts to promote gender equality and advance the status of women and girls globally.
Gender equality and empowerment of women as well as the active participation of women in political, economic, social and cultural life should be promoted.
This action signaled a key commitment of the Obama Administration: to put gender equality and the advancement of women and girls at the forefront of our foreign policy.
The United States is the chief backer of the agency, which was formerly known as the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the Secretary-General has named former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet the Executive Director of UN Women.
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President Obama has made promoting gender equality and advancing the status of women and girls central to our foreign policy and national security strategy, including by leading by example at home.
Gender equality will exist when both women and men are able to share equally in the distribution of power and knowledge, have equal opportunities, rights and obligations in terms of work or income generation, are given equal access to quality education, capacity building opportunities throughout life and in all domains, and the possibility to develop to their full potential.
Communities Minister Stewart Maxwell claimed that International Women's Day was an ideal day to reflect on gender equality in Scotland and the work that still has to be done to eradicate violence against women.
The referendum also addresses gender equality, and sets aside 60 parliamentary seats for women out of a total of 310.
For UNESCO, gender equality refers to the equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys.
Throughout the list, a host of commanding Middle-Eastern women challenge our beliefs about gender and equality in the region.
Prioritising investment in lifelong learning for women, creating multi-purpose community learning spaces and centres, improving access to and participation in the full range of adult learning and education programmes for women are among the necessary steps to enhance the status of women and facilitate the achievement of gender equality and equity in and through education.
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The discussions continued on efforts in literacy for women and girls, progress in terms of gender equality, the development of technical and vocational training for the employability of youth, culture and its link to development.
Finland: Finland commits to mainstream gender equality in its democracy and citizen participation policies, with a focus on ensuring women in immigrant communities can access economic opportunity.
Within the framework of UNESCO's contribution to the promotion of community participation in sustainable development through community media and the UN Gender and Development Programme entitled "Setting things right towards gender equality and equity", the awareness and capacity for protecting the rights of women and girls will be increased through community media.
Women's rights advocates readily admitted the fact the club hosting the prestigious Masters golf tournament let two women in doesn't mean their effort to achieve gender equality is over, or that even a fraction of women will ever join Rice and Moore at Augusta.
African Catholic women are praying for a future pope who will encourage African religious leaders to commit themselves to defending the rights of women to inheritance, land and to divorce, so that gender equality and respect for the dignity of the African woman can be achieved.
Improving education for women and girls in rural areas is a central issue both for gender equality and for poverty eradication.
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Over the past few decades, women have overcome tremendous obstacles and have made a lot of progress in the area of gender equality in America.
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