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    <title><![CDATA[Women's participation crucial for democracies, UN officials stress]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=58</link>
    <description><![CDATA[4 May 2011 – Senior United Nations officials today stressed the need to promote the participation of women in decision-making, noting that democracy and gender equality are interlinked and mutually reinforcing.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2011/5/6]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Empowering Women Worldwide]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=57</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Speech delivered by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women at the Women’s Foreign Policy Group Luncheon, New York, on 28th April 2011.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2011/5/4]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tourism a Vehicle for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=56</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Women make up an important percentage of the tourism workforce, but more work must be done to close the wealth and skills gap between men and women employed in tourism, according to a new World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)/UN Women report launched at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin on 11 March 2011.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2011/4/15]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Development efforts must include steps to end violence against women – UN expert]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=55</link>
    <description><![CDATA[6 December 2010 – Violence and discrimination against women and girls remains pervasive and is often overlooked, a United Nations independent human rights expert said today, adding that efforts to achieve the global anti-poverty goals should include closer attention to the protection of women’s rights.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2010/12/14]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[International Day of Rural Women]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=54</link>
    <description><![CDATA[“Today we recognize the important contributions of rural women, including indigenous women, to development. Rural women are farmers, fishers, herders and entrepreneurs; keepers of ethnic identities, traditional knowledge and sustainable practices; care-givers, parents and guardians.” 
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2010/10/29]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Women's Modern Plight]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=53</link>
    <description><![CDATA[As the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) just met in Geneva for its 47th session, one has to wonder how much has changed since this international bill of rights for women was adopted in 1979. To date, the Convention has been ratified by all democracies except the United States, which finds itself in the embarrassing company of Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Nauru, Palau and Tonga.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2010/10/26]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Equality Still Elusive For World's Women]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=50</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Women right's advocates have made some strides in recent decades. But most of the world's poorest are female, fewer girls than boys attend school and women are still vastly underrepresented in leadership positions. Former Ireland President Mary Robinson, the World Bank's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and columnist Nicholas Kristof explain the challenges of improving women's lives worldwide.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2010/9/29]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Former Chilean president to head new high-profile UN women’s agency]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=49</link>
    <description><![CDATA[14 September 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to head United Nations Women (UN Women), a newly created entity to oversee all of the world body’s programmes aimed at promoting women’s rights and full participation in global affairs.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2010/9/20]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Innovative Solutions for Advancing Young Women’s Empowerment]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=48</link>
    <description><![CDATA[In this context, the Young Women’s Forum is an open space to voice young women’s needs, demands and proposals, and it is designed to discuss and exchange best practices for advancing their empowerment. Improving the situation of millions of young women and enabling them to be active agents and strategic partners for development implies that governments and civil society, as well as the international community, must prioritize young women’s empowerment in all spheres. Each of us can contribute to this in different arenas and thus trigger a large multiplier effect. 

While the challenges are many, today I propose that you focus on the following four critical areas of action: 
1. Empowerment of young women through the use of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs)
2. Young women and their contributions to peacebuilding processes
3. HIV and AIDS and young women
4. Ending violence against women and girls]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[2010/9/8]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[UN reports that Asia Pacific lagging  in women's workforce participation has a large cost]]></title>
    <link>News_index.asp?ser_no=47</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Lack of women’s participation in the workforce across Asia-Pacific costs the region an estimated $89 billion every year, according to a new report released by the UN Nations Development Program (UNDP). 
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[2010/7/30]]></pubDate>
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