Progress of the World's Women 2005

UNIFEM's latest report

Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty (full text), was released yesterday. The report marks the fifth anniversary of the UN Millennium Declaration and the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and argues that governments and policymakers should pay more attention to employment and its links to poverty. UNIFEM, the women's fund at the United Nations, provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality.