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Gender: Gender Equality
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Approaches for ensuring implementation of gender mainstreaming include institutionalising gender into programming processes. The Shared Operational Objective on Gender Equality - adopted with five others in the ILO Programme and Budget for 2004-2005 - contains three indicators to measure progress of ILO Constituents in taking positive action to increase gender equality in the world of work. The first indicator focuses on ratification by member States, and application of, the four key ILO equality Conventions. The second measures Constituents' introduction of positive changes in their policies, legislation, programmes or institutions aimed at bringing about significant improvements in equality between women and men in the world of work. The third indicator measures women's participation in ILO events and governing institutions.
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Until recently, the intersection of gender and racial discrimination and its consequences had not been subject to detailed consideration. The problems were categorized as manifestations of either one form of discrimination or the other, but not both. Ultimately, this allowed the full scope of the problem to escape analysis, which then lead to ineffective or inadequate remedies. This is now changing. Through its "gender mainstreaming" policy, the United Nations, for example, is acknowledging the different ways in which gender roles and gender relations shape women's and men's access to rights, resources and opportunities. The ultimate goal is to achieve equality.
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The Programme shall have as its purpose to promote gender equality, in particular by providing assistance and support for the Community framework strategy. The Programme shall co-ordinate, support and finance the implementation of horizontal transnational activities under the fields of intervention of the Community framework strategy on gender equality. The Programme is complementary to the other EU programmes and grants, which - according to article 3par. 2 EC Treaty - shall equally aim to eliminate inequalities and to promote equality between men and women .
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UNICEF advocates quality basic education for all children — girls and boys — with an emphasis on gender equality and eliminating disparities of all kinds. In promoting equity, UNICEF focuses on the most disadvantaged children through a range of innovative programmes and initiatives in education. We work witha range of local, national and international partners to realize the education and gender equality goals established in the Millennium Development Goalsand the Education for All Declarationand to bring aboutessential structural changes needed to achieve social justice and equity for all.
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The policy was made operational through an ILO Action Plan on Gender Mainstreaming for Gender Equality, endorsed by the ILO Senior Management Team in November 1999. The five main elements of the action plan to operationalize gender mainstreaming are: strengthen institutional arrangements; introduce accountability and monitoring mechanisms; allocate adequate resources for gender mainstreaming; improve and increase staff's competence on gender; and improve the balance between women and men among staff at all levels. In addition to the ILO-wide policy and action plan, all five ILO regional offices have developed policy statements and strategies.
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The world has recognized the importance of gender equality. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, sets forth provisions that include civil rights and freedoms, family environment, basic health and welfare, education, leisure and cultural activities and special protection measures for all children. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly and acceded to by 180 States, sets down rights for women, of freedom from discrimination and equality under the law. Realizing the rights and equality of women is ... the key to the survival and development of children and to building healthy families, communities and nations.
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