Committee's Background:

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) was created by the United Nations General Assembly in the resolution 64/289 on July 2, 2010. Its headquarter is located at the United Nations in New York. UN Women works to create an environment in which every girl and woman can exercise their human rights. Focuses on priority areas that are fundamental for the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights and humanitarian action; areas that can unlock progress across the board. These priority areas range between working against discrimination towards women, for their empowerment, for equality between both genders, in protection of their human rights, for a world with peace and security, for leadership and political participation,and for ending violence against women.