UNIFEM UK

UNIFEM promotes women’s empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice.

UNIFEM has supported numerous projects and initiatives throughout the developing world that promote the political, economic and social empowerment of women.

Update: UNIFEM's Say NO to Violence Against Women Campaign has now been extended  until 25 November 2008. So far nearly 215,000 people have signed the petition, which far exceeds the challenge grant by the UN Foundation of $100,000 to the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women for the first 100,000 signatures. "It is heartening that nearly 200,000 supporters have signed on to this campaign," said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation. 

Say NO to Violence Against Women

If you haven't already, please click on the campaign logo and add your name - it takes only seconds! Violence against women is often ignored and rarely punished. Women and girls suffer disproportionately from violence - both in peace and in war, at the hands of the state, the community and the family.  

 

UNIFEM has National Committees in nineteen countries including the United Kingdom and the Non-Governmental Committee on UNIFEM consists of twenty-three internationally based organisations, one of which is Soroptimist International.


Read the May Bulletin from UNIFEM

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