Women, Gender, and Global Governance
The Council of Women World Leaders aims to promote good governance and enhance the experience of democracy globally by increasing the number, effectiveness, and visibility of women who lead at the highest levels in their countries.
The Global Fund for Women promotes women's economic security, health, education, and leadership.
This site provides links to key UN agencies, organizations, departments, funds, regional commissions, and programs related to women and gender issues, including the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
This site of the IPU is devoted to enhancing democracy through partnership between men and women in politics. Key components include information on the IPU's role in building gender partnership, women in the IPU, a bibliographic database of "women in politics," and women in national parliaments.
"WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programs, specialized agencies and academic and research institutions. It is a joint United Nations project created in March 1997 to provide Internet space for global gender equality issues and to support implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. Since 1997 the intergovernmental mandate has expanded, for example through the outcome document of the Twenty-third special session of the General Assembly in June 2000 and Security Council resolution 1325 of October 2000. The website now also provides information on the outcomes of, as well as efforts to incorporate gender perspectives into follow-up to global conferences." WomenWatch provides a link to the UN Secretary-General's Database on Violence Against Women.