More than 5 Million Join UNIFEM’s Say NO to Violence against Women Campaign

December 16th, 2008 · · Uncategorized

A total of 5,066,549 people worldwide have joined UNIFEM’s ‘Say NO to Violence against Women’ campaign and added their names to a call to make ending violence against women a top priority for governments worldwide. UNIFEM Executive Director InĂ©s Alberdi and UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman presented the signatures to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during [...]

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UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations.

December 9th, 2008 · · Uncategorized

It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality.
UNIFEM recognises that women are powerful agents of change for themselves, their families, their communities and their countries. Progress for women is progress for all.

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