UNIFEM

Linked with Viloyat Mirzoyeva – Tajikistan, and with Bihodjal Rahimova – Tajikistan.

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UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women’s human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas:

  • (1) reducing feminized poverty,
  • (2) ending violence against women,
  • (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and
  • (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war. (read more; lea más; et aussi).

UNIFEM Project Office in Tajikistan, 35, Khusein-zade Street, Dushanbe 734025, TAJIKISTAN. National Project Coordinator: Viloyat Mirzoeva, Tel: +992 372 211831, Fax: +992 372 210645 (Go to this UNIFEM site and scoll down).

NGO Committee on UNIFEM – The NGO Committee on UNIFEM was established to promote the work of UNIFEM. It consists of representatives of 32 NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC. Inquiries about the committee may be directed to Jackie Shapiro, Convener of the Committee, at +1 212-249-4065. (full text).