Created: Aug 29, 2006
Updated: May 28, 2008
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UN Organization: UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women

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Activities: Activist, Philanthropy
Type: UN Organization
Scope: international
Website: www.unifem.org
Main Email: N/A
Contact Name: Ms Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director
Phone: +1 212-906-6400
Fax: +1 212-906-6705
Headquarters: 304 East 45th Street
15th Floor
New York, New York 10017
United States
Local Time: Fri Aug 29 14:10:09

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UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas:



- reducing feminized poverty,



- ending violence against women,



- reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and



- achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war.



To pursue these goals, UNIFEM is active in all regions and at different levels. It works with countries to formulate and implement laws and policies to eliminate gender discrimination and promote gender equality in such areas as land and inheritance rights, decent work for women and ending violence against women. UNIFEM also aims to transform institutions to make them more accountable to gender equality and women's rights, to strengthen the capacity and voice of women's rights advocates, and to change harmful and discriminatory practices in society.

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