The new website of the Women's Center in Tibilisi, Georgia: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS Development Assistance Committee – OECD The OECD working party on gender equality. Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations - FAO FAO's Sustainable Development Department designs policies, strategies and methodologies to foster the active participation of rural people - men and women - in agriculture and rural development. Click here for more information. International Labour Organisation - ILO International standards and guidelines for labour statistics and surveys/studies on specific topics-such as informal sector, home-based work, child labour, etc. To visit the ILO Gender Promotion Program, click here. Alternatively, the ILO's Gender Website can be found here.
International Telecommunications Union - ITU: Gender Issues
The Task Force on Gender Issues within the ITU serves as the main organ for effecting the mainstreaming of gender issues. In collaboration with the Development Sector, it aims to ensure that the benefits of telecommunications and the emerging information society are made available to all women and men in developing countries on a fair and equitable basis. Inter-Parliamentary Union - IPU Women in national parliaments.
United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women - UNDAW UNDAW advocates the improvement of the status of women of the world and the achievement of their equality with men. It aims to ensure the participation of women as equal partners with men in all aspects of human endeavour. It promotes women as equal participants and beneficiaries of sustainable development, peace and security, governance and human rights. It strives to stimulate the mainstreaming of a gender perspective both within and outside the United Nations system. United Nations Development Program - UNDP Gender in Development Programme (GIDP) advises, supports and facilitates UNDP gender equality policy, dialogue and practice, and promotes the empowerment of women. The UNDP Virtual Gender Library is maintained by the the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS.
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean - ECLAC Promoting gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC's Women and Development website contains a set of gender statistics for the region, various publications and studies, information on projects, meetings and other events (available in Spanish only). The ECLAC Gender Statistics (Estadísticas de género) website is home to 22 profiles of countries in the region, based on a minimum set of indicators, and to a series of regional comparative socio-economic indicators relating to: population and health, education, households and family, employment, income and political participation. The data has been updated to the period 1999-2000 for all the countries with the corresponding data. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation - UNESCO UNESCO's website on women and gender equality contains information on UNESCO's efforts to integrate a gender perspective in its work. UNESCO's Institute for Statistics provides online access to data on education and literacy. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR Contains among other information, statistical information on refuges and other persons of concern to the UNHCR as well as information about a series of special programmes UNHCR has developed to ensure that women have equal access to protection, basic goods and services as they attempt to rebuild their lives.
United Nations Development Fund for Women - UNIFEM UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. UNIFEM focuses on three areas: on strengthening women's economic capacity, on government and leadership, and on promoting women's human rights. Also, please see the UN Development Fund for Women in CIS Countries.
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women - INSTRAW The mandate of the Institute is to serve as a vehicle at the international level to promote and undertake research and training programs to contribute to the advancement of women and gender equality worldwide. United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA
The United Nations Population Fund works mostly with developing countries and with economies in transition. The Fund has three main programme areas: reproductive health including family planning and sexual health, population and development strategies, and advocacy.
United Nations Statistical Division - UNSD International standards and guidelines, ongoing technical assistance to countries, and data compilation and analysis from international sources. Click here to visit the WISTAT site. Click here to view statistical tables derived from the WISTAT database. Women Watch A joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. It was founded in March 1997 by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW).
World Bank - WB WB's Gender Net site describes how the bank seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. Includes a database on gender statistics divided by countries and themes. World Health Organisation - WHO For women, health and the environment, maternal health, violence against women, and all other health-related topics.
| 
