UN Women is the United Nations entity created in July, 2010 dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Objective
UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide.
Focus Areas
Basically it focuses on 4 strategic areas - ensuring women participation in governance system, ensuring decent income and work security to women, ending all forms of violence against women and ensuring women ....