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UN Creates New Structure for Empowerment of Women
United Nations, New York, 2 July 2010 – In an historic move, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously today to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide.   ...



United Nations Women Leadership Development Programme 21 – 25 June, 2010 Amman, Jordan
Promoting gender equality and empowering women to take leadership positions is one of the UN’s main goals. The UN advocates for the achievement of the MDGs and places emphasis on women’s needs and support women to become agents of change at all levels of society including ...



Soccer stars urge the public to take part in UN anti-poverty Campaign
  The soccer stars and Goodwill Ambassadors for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Didier Drogba and Zinedine Zidane, today launched a television announcement exhorting the world to make a concerted effort to help millions of people free themselves from ...



Eight MDGs Goals for Africa Campaign
  The ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ song is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the 8 MDGs.End poverty by 2015 is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed ...



Swimming for the MDGs and Unite the Five Continents
The Dominican Republic Ultra Distance Open Water swimmer, Marcos Diaz, is promoting an MDGs- awareness raising event, “Swimming Across the Continents with the United Nations for the UN Millennium Development Goals”. ...



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