1 January 2011 – The 192-member United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a historic resolution in July 2010 to create a new UN agency for women, called the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, or UN Women for short. The decision to create a separate body to deal exclusively with gender-related activities comes years after the UN created specialized agencies to deal with specific issues, including children, population, refugees, food, environment, education, health and tourism, among many others. UN Women became operational on 1 January 2011.
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Increasing access to health care services in Afghanistan with gender-sensitive health service delivery
Cross-cutting gender issues in women's health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Gender and health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: conceptual and operational advocacy
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Qualitative data
Autonomy and access to health services:
In our home, the household head decides about our healthcare. If he is not home, we have
to wait.
(Female respondent in a WHO gender assessment of health-seeking behaviour in Pakistan)
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