Mission: The main roles of UN Women are: to support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms; to help Member States to implement these standards, standing ready to provide suitable technical and financial support to those countries that request it, and to forge effective partnerships with civil society; to hold the UN system accountable for its own commitments on gender equality, including regular monitoring of system-wide progress.
Description: UN Women is the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the UN Charter, UN Women, among other issues, works for the: elimination of discrimination against women and girls; empowerment of women; and achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
UN WOMEN's Homepage: here