Contents 1 About UN Women Watch 2 2012 Year in review for gender equality 3 Special online features 4 Links

About UN Women Watch

UN Women Watch, an inter-agency standing committee of the United Nations Inter-agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE), is a unique and comprehensive web-based gateway to information on the United Nations system-wide work on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The portal contains a directory of resources, which provides access to specific information on selected topics - including the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action, related policy outcomes, statistics and indicators, publications and tools on gender equality and gender mainstreaming, and a series of thematic sub-portals dedicated to specific issues that are currently on the UN global agenda, such as climate change; urbanization; women, peace and security, etc.

In addition, UN Women Watch features UNGENews, a real-time newsfeed aggregator of all United Nations news on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

2012 Year in review for gender equality

Special online features

UN Women Watch

• The UN System: Working Together to Empower Rural Women
• Gender Equality and Trade Policy
• Rural Women and Development

Other UN Agencies

• The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: Rio+20, 20-22 June 2012 (UN Women)

Links

Visit UN Women Watch: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

Visit UN gender equality news feed (UNGENews): http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ungen/  

Connect with UN Women Watch on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UNWomenwatch

Follow UN Women Watch on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/UNWomenWatch

Follow and save UN Women Watch thematic stacks and links on Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/unwomenwatch