The commitment to achieve gender equality and justice included in the 1999 Broad Guidelines of State Policy specifically calls for the empowerment of women to achieve gender equality and justice.

UNDP should retain and revitalize gender mainstreaming as a programmatic strategy to achieve gender equality.

Recognizing the need to achieve gender equality to ensure a just and equitable world for girls,

The Committee notes with appreciation the Law on Sex Equality of July 1946 as an early indication of political will to achieve equality between women and men.

Unless we ensure respect for human rights and strive to achieve gender equality, we will not be able to achieve our objectives of security and sustainable development.

Recognizing also the need to achieve gender equality to ensure a just and equitable world for girls,

Recognizing also the need to achieve gender equality to ensure a just and equitable world for girls,

Recognizing the need to achieve gender equality so as to ensure a just and equitable world for girls,

It was important to understand that in order to achieve substantive equality, women must be offered additional support.

Thirdly, any successful effort to achieve comprehensive development will remain hostage to our ability to achieve peace and stability and to consolidate the principles of international legitimacy, justice and equality.

The report was complemented by a report of the Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality, in which specific action to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women was proposed.

We are also on track to achieve the targets of reducing child mortality, attaining greater gender equality and improving maternal health.

In that context, the Government must show the political will to achieve gender equality by, inter alia, eradicating discriminatory customs and practices.

The relevant report of the Director General of UNESCO (A 59 223) gave extensive attention to organizational activities to achieve gender equality.

The education related Millennium Development Goals challenge countries to achieve universal primary education (Goal 2) and to promote gender equality and empower women (Goal 3).

The current Government is also working to improve the status of women in a society in which women are yet to achieve equality with men.

be possible to achieve the targets for reduction of infant malnutrition, gender equality in primary education, and reduction of infant and under 5 mortality rates.

While several of the main political parties had implemented gender quota systems, more needed to be done to achieve true equality between women and men.

Efforts were being made to mainstream the gender perspective in all policies, programmes, plans and human resources functions in order to achieve full gender equality.

By the time I got to Beijing in 1995, it was clear to me, the only way to achieve gender equality was to overturn centuries of oppressive tradition.

d. Article 28 H Every person shall have the right to receive facilitation and special treatment to have the same opportunity and benefit in order to achieve equality.

4. Specific measures which are necessary to accelerate or achieve de facto equality of persons with disabilities shall not be considered discrimination under the terms of the present Convention.

With regard to persisting discriminative social cultural patterns of conduct and attitude towards women, the Government has adopted Gender Mainstreaming as a strategy to achieve gender equality and justice.

UNIFEM tracks the extent to which its partnerships, such as those described in section B above, contribute to expanded and sustainable opportunities to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment.

The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to achieve equality in the enjoyment of rights and allocate adequate resources to programmes aimed at the eradication of disparities.

The international development agenda includes gender equality and women's empowerment' as means to achieve all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and as a goal in its own right (MDG 3).

The whole point of mainstreaming' is that working with and for women, working to achieve gender equality, is not a separate activity of a women focused institution such as UNIFEM.

To reverse the trend, French republicanism must, like English multiculturalism, contradict itself in order to fulfil itself. The French must recognize that equality before the law is a core principle, but a weak one it needs to be complemented by a stricter vision of how to achieve equality.

The General Assembly recommended action on gender equality in three resolutions that dealt with a culture of peace and understanding, as well as sports as a means to achieve these goals.

In line with its international commitments, Ecuador had made important progress on the rights of Ecuadorian women and the institutionalization of policies that benefited women and sought to achieve gender equality.

The Environmental Policy gives a special attention to women through attention to programs of management of the natural resources, environment education and other programs that allow women to achieve equality of opportunities.

Once empowered, women could achieve the promise contained in the letter and spirit of article 3 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights relative to equality between men and women.

(l) Provide incentives for innovative measures at the workplace to achieve gender equality, for example, promoting positive action, provisions for parental leave for women and men, childcare facilities and gender responsive pension schemes

As United Nations efforts to strengthen national capacity to implement and manage national planning and development processes got under way, gender equality and strategies to achieve it must be incorporated into all coordination mechanisms.

In order to achieve gender equality in the field of education, Government has been promoting the application of gender mainstreaming strategy as mandated by Presidential Degree No. 9 of 2000 through the following measures

Yet equality before the law was not the same as equality in rights or gender equality.

Many of the actions undertaken by the Brazilian Government, which are described in the National Plan on Policies for Women, are based on the adoption of special measures to accelerate the process to achieve equality.

We believe that this is the best way to achieve justice and equality for all Sudanese, irrespective of whether they are of Arab or African origin, whether they are Muslims or Christians through voluntary union.

Reaffirm international support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Millennium Declaration, recognizing that gender equality is a fundamental aspect of development efforts, including all the efforts needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

We believe that the Development Goals are primary objectives that must be achieved in order to meet the challenge of extreme poverty and address its painful repercussions, achieve gender equality, advance education and preserve the environment.

To achieve such a situation, it is necessary to prohibit both direct and indirect discrimination, to eliminate any existing gender inequality, create equal opportunities for men and women and implement different strategies to promote gender equality.

Ms. Bokpe Gnacadja stressed that the Gambian Government had primary responsibility for the introduction of legislative and policy measures to achieve gender equality and urged it to seek new ways of overcoming the obstacles in its path.

Emphasizes that the goal of mainstreaming a gender perspective is to achieve gender equality and that this includes ensuring that all United Nations activities, including United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits, integrate the human rights of women

Emphasizes that the goal of mainstreaming a gender perspective is to achieve gender equality and that this includes ensuring that all United Nations activities, including United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits, integrate the human rights of women

Stimulating Equality