This meeting of the IHEU GA resolves that IHEU and its Member Organisations support the GEAR Campaign (Gender Equity Architecture Reform) and the United Nations High Level Panel on system wide coherence recommendations whose main points are:

Does the UN effectively promote international security, peace and wellbeing worldwide? The UN is a repository of our hopes. It reflects and embodies the highest ideals. At the same time it also embodies and reflects the realities of international politics.

International Women's Day, on March 8th, 2008, had at its theme "Investing In Women and Girls. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon observed that "investing in women is not only the right thing to do. It is the smart thing to do. I am deeply convinced that, in women, the world has at its disposal, the most significant and yet largely untapped potential for development and peace."

"The Impact of Obstetric Fistulas on Economic Empowerment” was the title of a topic dissected by a unique panel discussion held 3 March 2008 in New York City. The medical and socioeconomic impact of obstetric fistulas was considered under the auspices of the United Nations Commission of the Status of Women, with the co-sponsorship of the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics.

In 2000 leaders and representatives from 189 countries met in a UN Summit to respond to the problem, “the poor we have always with us”. Thanks to persistent ongoing pressure from Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General, they adopted target goals for the year 2015, the Millennium Development Goals.

UN General Assembly A/62/280

Exerpt from: Interim Report of Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief,
Asma Jahangir. 20 August 2007

Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance

III B: Situation of persons with atheistic or non-theistic beliefs

Thanks to almost-president Gore, Katrina, and the UN's accumulation of warnings from scientists all over the world, climate change can no longer be ignored. The new UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has placed the potential impact of climate change first on his agenda. The UN's annual major General Assembly in September adopted climate change as its central theme.

The Next United Nations Secretary-General: Time for a Woman - 1945-2006: 3 Europeans, 2 Africans, 1 Latin American, 1 Asian, 0 Women

IHEYO wrote to the missions of the UN members of the Security Council to urge them to consider recommending a qualified women candidate for the post of the next General Secretary of the UN, now taken by Kofi Annan.

Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates,

I want to begin by expressing our solidarity with the people of the Philippines. We have all been shocked by the television images showing no more than a mass of mud where just a few days ago there was a village of over a thousand people; men, women and children.

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