Welcome to UNESCO’s site on gender equality and the promotion of women’s and girls’ self-empowerment. Browsing through our site you will learn about the Organization’s work in this area.

The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women

Culture and Development : Chapter 5: Gender and Culture

Personnel of the United Nations Development Programme

United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women

Culture and Development: INTERNATIONAL AGENDA; Action 4: An International Plan for Gender Equality.

Women & Gender equality: all of the programme summaries are taken from the Best Practices database compiled by UNCHS in collaboration with the Together Foundation and with support of the UNESCO-MOST Clearing House.

Meetings/Events/News/Publications of UNESCO concerning gender equality

Women and decision-making: Published to Promote the Goals of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action October 1997, of DAW's newsletter Women2000: "Women and decision-making"

United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing, 8 September 1995 DG/95/33

Mabati Women Groups in Nyeri Kenya

Project 8.5: Special project on women and water resources supply and use

Project presented by the MOST Swiss Committee for UNESCO.

WOMMED/FEMMED: The WomMed/ FemMed Network brings together women and men from around the world who are working together to redress gender-imbalance in access to expression and decision-making in the media, reaffirming the importance of fluid and pluralistic communication for women’s full participation in society and promoting all forms of democratic communication.

ALAI's Women's Program is a regional communications initiative serving women's and feminist movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. This Web site gathers documentary material on gender issues.

Priority Women: In November 1995, UNESCO’s Member States decided once again to consider women, as well as youth, Africa and least-developed countries as priority groups for all of the Organization’s activities.

Resolutions adopted by the 28th session of the General Conference related to women

Women Speaking to Women is another UNESCO project which directly addresses the Toronto Platform of Action for Women Communication Professionals as well as the empowerment of women.

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women Internet Information Resource

Women on the Net

Women on the Web: by Iskra Panevska, Free Flow of Information and Communication Research Section, Communication Division

WOMEN and HIGHER EDUCATION

PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES FOR WOMEN IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION

Women and the media

Women and Media Network

UNESCO's Work for Women in the Science Sector