Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Resolution (GEAR)
The resolution on the establishment of the new gender entity was adopted at Friday’s (12 March) meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Below is the extract from the UN press briefing on it:
(http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/wom1792.doc.htm),
The representative of Egypt than introduced a resolution entitled strengthening the institutional arrangements of the United Nations for support of gender equality and the empowerment of women by consolidating the four existing offices into a composite entity (document E/CN.6/2010/L.7).
She said it was a political statement of the will of Member States to support system-wide coherence of all United Nations entities mandated to work towards gender equality.
It reflected the United Nations important role to achieve that priority target of gender equality and women’s empowerment, as set out in the Beijing Declaration and Platform. It reaffirmed Member States’ commitment to put women front and centre.
The representative of Norway said that, in adopting the text, which had more than 181 co-sponsors, the Commission would confirm that strengthening United Nations institutions was a truly universal objective.
That clear message from Member States should inspire and boost ongoing negotiations of the General Assembly to set up an entity by the end of the current Assembly session.