WEBSITE LAUNCH: Global GEAR Campaign Website Launched

The Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign (GEAR) is pleased to announce the launch of the official Global GEAR Campaign Website. From 7 June onwards www.gearcampaign.org will keep you informed about the latest developments at the UN as well as about the GEAR activities of the GEAR Campaign.

The global GEAR Campaign website replaces the old European GEAR Campaign website www.un-gear.eu.

The GEAR Campaign invites civil society organizations and individuals from around the world to join the global campaign to create a strong new United Nations agency for women's rights. Join us at www.gearcampaign.org and make history by helping to build a United Nations that really works for all women!

The United Nations is undergoing a historic reform process that has the potential to change the status quo for women's rights all over the world by creating a new, strong, and well-resourced UN agency for gender equality and women's empowerment.

Hundreds of civil society organizations from all over the world have been working together over the last four years as the global Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign to press governments and the UN Secretariat to improve the UN's work on gender equality and women's empowerment by consolidating the existing UN gender equality bodies into a single strong women's entity.

While the United Nations Member States negotiate about the creation of the new gender equality entity, the GEAR Campaign wants to keep you updated with critical information.The website, www.gearcampaign.org, offers civil society organizations and individuals up-to-date information about the creation of the new entity, as well as resources to participate in making this reform a reality.

The GEAR Campaign invites you to visit the website and take action by sending a letter to your government and signing the petition to "Make the United Nations more effective in realizing women's rights" that GEAR representatives will deliver to the United Nations President of the General Assembly, H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki in mid June.

The UN Secretary General has promised to deliver strong results for women worldwide and civil society will be present throughout this process to monitor and hold the SG accountable to his commitments to advance gender equality and women's empowerment.

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