UN Chronicle E-Alert: Empowering Women Through Education
(PRWEB) January 21, 2004
Empowering women through education is one of the most crucial concerns of the Millennium Development Goal on gender equality. The United Nations and its agencies have long encouraged the world community to discourage gender stereotypes and to strengthen the status of women within the family and in society as a whole. One of the key ways of doing so is by supporting the education of women, and especially girls.
The UN Chronicle regularly features United Nations efforts in the advancement of women in a number of areas, such as education, health, housing, microcredit, media, refugees and trafficking.
The following articles, selected from past issues, give an idea of the range of efforts of the entire UN system in support of the advancement for women and eliminating gender disparity.
Issue 4, 2003
Bridging the Gender Gap
By Rita Mijumbi Epodoi
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue4/0403p36.asp (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue4/0403p36.asp)
Marginalization of Women in the Media
What the United Nations Should Do
By Sonia Gill
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue4/0403p38.asp (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue4/0403p38.asp)
Issue 3, 2003
FieldWatch
Helping Women Become Economically Independent
By Richenda Van Leeuwen
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue3/0303p77.asp (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue3/0303p77.asp)
Issue 2, 2003
Exploited, Not Educated
Trafficking of Women and Children in Southeast Asia
By Mikel Flamm
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue2/0203p34.html (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue2/0203p34.html)
Issue 2, 2002
WomenWatch
Transcending Difference: The United Nations Role
By Sherin Saadallah
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p48_transcending_difference. html (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p48_transcending_difference. html)
Voices that Deserve to Be Heard
By NGO Working Group on Women, International Peace and Security
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p31_voices_that_deserve_to_be_heard. html (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p31_voices_that_deserve_to_be_heard. html)
Breaking the Silence
By Cathy Shepherd
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p24_breaking_the_silence. html (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p24_breaking_the_silence. html)
Issue 1, 2001
Gender Equality
Addressing Women's Concerns
By Diana Lee-Smith
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p50.html (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p50.html)
Issue 2, 1999
Educating the Girl Child
By Mary Joy Pigozzi
Http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue2/0299p39.htm (http://www. un. org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue2/0299p39.htm)
Links of interest on issues relating to advancement of women
Women Watch -- The UN Internet Gateway to the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
Http://www. un. org/womenwatch/ (http://www. un. org/womenwatch/)
The State of the World's Children 2004: Girls, Education and Development
Http://www. unicef. org/sowc04/ (http://www. unicef. org/sowc04/)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Http://www. un. org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/ (http://www. un. org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/)
Stop Violence Against Women
Http://www. stopvaw. org/ (http://www. stopvaw. org/)
The UN Chronicle is published by the Department of Public Information in English (http://www. un. org/chronicle/ (http://www. un. org/chronicle/)) and French (http://www. un. org/french/pubs/chronique/ (http://www. un. org/french/pubs/chronique/)), and co-published in Arabic, Chinese Russian and Spanish. It is not an official record;
Views expressed in individual articles do not necessarily imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Please pass this UN Chronicle E-Alert on to anyone whom you think it might interest.
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