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, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas:
– Reducing feminised poverty;
– Ending violence against women;
– Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls;
– Achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war.
The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors,and do not necessarily represent the views of UNIFEM, the United Nations or any of its affiliated organizations.
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Category: Human Development