UN Women, Executive Director
From UN Women website:In a historic move, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously on July 2, 2010 to create a new entity to accelerate the needs of women and girls worldwide.
The establishment of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women - to be known as UN Women - is the result of years of negotiations between UN Member States and advocacy of the global women's movement. It is part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. "I am grateful to Member States for taking this major step forward for the world's women and girls," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in a statement welcoming the decision.
The CSSJ Federation Justice and Peace Coordinators met early October in Orange, California. Marianne Senneck, CSJ, and Alternate ECOSOC Representative, CSSJ NGO Ministry at the United Nations provided an update on UN Women. She stated that all CSSJ sisters need to know that there are UN agencies in all countries. We celebrated this enormous step forward for the world's women and girls. UN Millennium Goal #3 (MDG) Empowerment of Women and Gender Equality has been one of our priorities for the past three years. It was unanimously agreed to keep MDG #3 as one of our 2010-2011 goals.
