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Gender Responsive Standards Initiative
The first Gender Responsive Standards Initiative is approved & recommended at UNECE's Working Party on "Regulatory Cooperation & Standardisation Policies".
CEN & CENELEC agree to sign to sign the UNECE Declaration on Gender Responsive Standards as soon as it is opened for signature.
CEN & CENELEC agree to sign to sign the UNECE Declaration on Gender Responsive Standards as soon as it is opened for signature.
Chair of the IGC Global Board Awarded Inaugural SDG5 Male Champion for Change Award
On International Women’s Day, the Chair of the IGC Global Board Mr. Martin Chungong received the Inaugural SDG5 Male Champion for Change Award.
Champions of the IGC Network and CSW
The two-week period of CSW saw hundreds of side and parallel events. To gain some clarity, the International Gender Champions Secretariat analysed the over one hundred official CSW65 side events to illustrate the main topics fellow Champions addressed in panel events.
IPU: Proportion of women MPs inches up but gender parity still far off
Following elections in 2020, the global proportion of women in parliament reached a record 25.5 per cent, representing an increase of 0.6 points compared with 2019, according to the IPU’s latest Women in Parliament report.
Geneva Champions
Global Board
Monique van Daalen
Ambassador,
Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations in Geneva
Michelle Bachelet
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights