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UAE elected to UN Women's executive board
Saturday April 28, 2012 09:09:07 AM,
WAM
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New York: The
United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been elected to the executive board
of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
or UN Women for a three-year term.
The UAE's term begins Jan 1, 2012 and ends Dec 31, 2015.
The elections were held during a session of the UN Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York.
Elected from the Asian Group along with the UAE, to fill five
vacant seats, were the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand and
the Maldives.
In July 2010, the UN General Assembly created UN Women in a
historic step to accelerate the UN's goals on gender equality and
the empowerment of women.
Then, the board members were selected on the following basis -- 10
from Africa, 10 from Asia, four from eastern Europe, six from
Latin America and the Caribbean, five from western Europe and six
from contributing countries.
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