Gender Equality Architecture and UN Reforms
Gender Equality Architecture and UN ReformsIn the last decade, efforts to make the development, human rights and peace/security ‘mainstreams’ work for women have resulted in impressive gains as well as staggering failures. Futhermore, gains for women’s rights are facing growing resistance in many places and too often positive examples are the exception rather than the norm. This paper briefly outlines the successes and failures of the current UN system in addressing gender equality and women’s rights, and puts forth several principles and characteristics that are critical to reforming the gender equality architecture in order to deliver consistent positive gender equality outcomes.
