UN sets up an agency to promote equality for women

Jul 4, 2010
 United Nations, Jul 3 (PTI) After intense negotiations stretching four years, the UN General Assembly has approved setting up of a single entity within the world body to promote equality for women at its plenary session chaired by Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur.
 The establishment of this new composite UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, which is to be known as ‘UN Women’, brings together as many as four women-related agencies of the world body.
 The move, which meets a longstanding demand, came last night after four years of intense and difficult political negotiations.
 “The newest member of the UN family has been born,” Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, told the Assembly after it passed the resolution establishing the new UN entity.
 “This is truly a watershed day,” he declared.
 
Source: Press Trust of India