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STORY: UN / GENDER ENTITY WRAP
TRT: 2.28
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 JULY 2010, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2 JULY 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Cutaway, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, Permanent Representative of Estonia, United Nations:
“UN woman is tasked to carryout normative activities in headquarters but also operational activities in the field. This entity has a universal mandate to deal with the empowerment of women in all countries but at the same time as we are approaching critical deadlines of MDGs this entity will have to fill a very critical gap in our common work towards the achievement of MDG goals.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I welcome what will be an historic move by the General Assembly today in establishing “UN Women”, an entity designed to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide. I would like to acknowledge the hard work and determination of Member States in reaching this agreement, and the years of advocacy by the global women’s movement which has been instrumental in making UN Women a reality.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. Cutaway, guests
9. Zoom in, GA podium
10. Various shots, adoption of resolution and applause
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“By bringing together four parts of the UN system dedicated to women’s issues, Member States have created a much stronger voice for women and for gender equality at the global level. It will now be much more difficult for the world to ignore the challenges facing women and girls or to fail to take the necessary action; you have combined global norm-setting responsibilities in one UN entity and given it the means to provide operational support to countries to implement those norms and standards.”
12. Zoom out, delegates applauding
United Nations (UN) Deputy-Secretary-General Asha Rose Migiro, Estonian Ambassador Tiina Intelmann and Ambassador Ghazi Jomaa of Tunisia briefed journalists today (2 July) at the UN on the establishment of a new UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to be known as UN Women.
Intelmann introduced the briefing by explaining that ‘UN Woman’ was tasked to carryout normative activities in headquarters as well as operational activities in the field. She added that the entity had a universal mandate to deal with the empowerment of women in all countries. She emphasized that “at the same time as we are approaching critical deadlines of MDGs this entity will have to fill a very critical gap in our common work towards the achievement of MDG goals.”
The new entity is a result of years of negotiations between UN Member States and global women’s movement. It is part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact.
UN Deputy Secretary-General, Asha Rose Migiro, on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended Member States for having taken “this major step forward for the world’s women and girls.”
Migiro also said that UN Women would “significantly boost UN efforts to promote gender equality, expand opportunity, and tackle discrimination around the globe.”
UN Women merges and is expected to build on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system which focus exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The merge will include the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW, established in 1946), International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW, established in 1976), Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI, established in 1997) and UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, established in 1976).
Later in the day the UN General Assembly voted unanimously to create UN Women which is tasked with accelerating progress in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who had just returned from his third trip to Africa, told delegates present at the session that by bringing together four parts of the UN system dedicated to women’s issues, the Member States had created a “much stronger voice for women and for gender equality at the global level”.
He added that now it would be “much more difficult for the world to ignore the challenges facing women and girls or to fail to take the necessary action.”
While Ban takes the necessary time to appoint an Under-Secretary-General to head the new body, he had asked his Deputy, Asha Rose Migiro, to head the entity.
UN Women will have two key roles. It will support inter-governmental bodies such as the Commission on the Status of Women in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms, and it will help Member States to implement these standards, standing ready to provide suitable technical and financial support to those countries that request it, as well as forging effective partnerships with civil society.
It will also help the UN system to be accountable for its own commitments on gender equality, including regular monitoring of system-wide progress.