Wednesday, September 15, 2010

New Agency For Women Welfare, UN Announces

The United Nations on Tuesday announced a new agency UN Women, set up exclusively for women welfare across the world.

Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of UN, announced that former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet would head the UN Women. The agency would function for the women welfare and promote equality for women.

"Ms. Bachelet brings to this critical position a history of dynamic global leadership, highly honed political skills and uncommon ability to create consensus and focus among UN agencies and many partners in both the public and private sector," Ban said.

The UN Women would start operating from January 2011. According to sources, the new agency would merge all the other agencies functioning for women’s welfare including the UN Development Fund for Women, the Division for the Advancement of Women, the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues, and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.