Women

Links

Americas

• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women "Convention of Belém do Pará"
• Quito Consensus – Tenth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
• CEPAL (Economic Commission for Latin America) – Division on Gender Issues (only available in Spanish)
• Panamerican Health Organization
• Inter-American Commission on Women (CIM – OAS)
• Topics: Gender - Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
• World Bank – Gender and Development
• Regional Office for Mexico, Central America, Cuba and Dominican Republic (Only available in Spanish)– United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• Regional Office for the Andean Region (Only available in Spanish) - United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• Regional Office for the Southern Cone (Only available in Spanish) - United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Global

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
• Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
• Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, approved by the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 1993
• Millennium Declaration, Resolution approved by the UN General Assembly in September 2000
• Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, approved in the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, September 1995
• Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development

• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Women’s Human Rights and Gender Unit (WRGU)

• Division for the Advancement of Women – Department of Economic and Social Affairs – United Nations
• Women Watch – United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality
• Committee on the Elimination of Discriminiation against Women (CEDAW)
• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

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