Equality of Women and Men
Overview
For sixty years, the Bahá'í International Community’s United Nations Office has worked for women’s advancement and gender equality, through its participation and contributions to the session of the Commission on the Status of Women, through strengthening the UN’s gender mechanisms and through supporting the programmes and implementation efforts of its national affiliates. Our office has played a lead role in bringing women’s voices from around the world to bear on UN issues. Along with our national affiliates, we have been involved in each of the UN world conferences on women and children and led the NGO Committee on the Status of Women during the 4th World Conference on Women (Beijing). We continue to work closely with UNICEF and UNIFEM to address issues related to women's and girls' education, their health and security, racism, and violence against women. We believe that the achievement of full equality between the sexes is one of the most important prerequisites of peace.
Recent Activities
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Forum at UN discusses role of rural women farmers:
6 March 2012 (New York):
Listening to and supporting rural women is fundamental to ending poverty and hunger, and achieving peace and development that is sustainable.
That was the message from Michelle Bachelet, executive director of UN Women, who opened the annual UN Commission on the Status of
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Baha'i delegates to the Commission on the Status of Women share perspectives on rural development and capacity building :
5 March 2012 (New York):
Bahá'í International Community's delegates (from Uganda, Colombia, India and China) to the Commission on the Status of Women share perspectives and experiences related to the theme of the Commission: "The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty eradication,
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Rethinking the promotion of household food security:
5 March 2012 (New York):
Elizabeth Kharono, a Bahá'í delegate to the Commission on the Status of Women and Director at the Centre for Land Economy and Rights of Women in Uganda spoke about the promotion of household food
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Oxford lecturer challenges stereotypes of religious women:
3 March 2012 (New York):
Oxford University Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, Dr. Nazila Ghanea, speaking at an event during the Commission on the Status of Women, challenged stereotypes that depict religious women as predominantly submissive, as victims in need of rescuing. Too often, she noted
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Rural women are the focus of the 56th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women :
27 February 2012 (New York):
The 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women started today and, for the next two weeks, will consider the theme of “the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty
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