Strengthening UN Capacity
Partnering with the United Nations is central to our approach to tackling the world’s most pressing issues, especially those connected with advancing the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Our recent work with the United Nations Development Fund for Women’s (UNIFEM) “Say NO to Violence against Women” and the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Campaign to End Fistula are examples of our support for global efforts to achieve MDG 3 (promoting gender equality and empowering women) and MDG 5 (improving maternal health) respectively.
For UNIFEM’s “Say NO to Violence against Women” Internet petition campaign, we issued a challenge grant that donated $1 to the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women for each of the first 100,000 petition signatures. Today, more than 230,000 people worldwide have signed on and taken a stand against violence.
Our work with UNFPA’s Campaign to End Fistula has helped bring international attention to fistula, a debilitating childbirth injury eliminated in the West a century ago that renders its victims incontinent. Through our advocacy, investments and work with partners, we hope to help UNFPA realize its goal of making obstetric fistula as rare in developing countries as it is in the industrialized world.
STORIES OF IMPACT
Women and Faith Leaders Work to End Global Poverty
Area of Involvement: Women & Population
Women and girls make critical choices that can lead their families out of poverty. The international development, women's rights and faith communities are working together to support women and girls.
Saying NO to Violence Against Women
Area of Involvement: Women & Population
At least one out of three women globally has been beaten or abused in her lifetime. To end violence against women and girls on a global scale, we worked with UNIFEM to add voices to its global petition.
RESOURCES
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Religion and America's Role in the World
Issue Area: US-UN Relations
Issue Area: Women & Population
The UN Foundation and Religion & Ethics News Weekly Public supported public opinion research that examined the role that religion plays in shaping people’s views about America’s role in the world and foreign policy priorities. The report explores how religion impacts Americans’ views on whether the U.S. should take an interventionist or isolationist posture on such key issues as the war on terrorism, humanitarian disaster relief and women’s rights around the world.
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10 Years of making a difference
Issue Area: Children’s Health
Issue Area: Climate & Energy
Issue Area: Sustainable Development
Issue Area: Technology
Issue Area: US-UN Relations
Issue Area: Women & Population
10 year report on how the role of the UN Foundation has changed and developed.
