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NOELEEN
HEYZER of UNIFEM: BIO
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- 2006 -Noeleen
Heyzer is the first
executive director from
the South to head the
United Nations
Development Fund for
Women (UNIFEM), the
leading operational
agency within the United
Nations to promote
women's empowerment and
gender equality.
Since
joining UNIFEM, Dr
Heyzer has worked on
strengthening women's
economic security and
rights; promoting
women's leadership in
conflict resolution,
peacebuilding and
reconstruction; ending
violence against women;
and combating HIV/AIDS
from a gender
perspective.
She
also played a critical
role in the UN Security
Council's adoption of
Resolution 1325 on
Women, Peace and
Security and in ensuring
that it is implemented
in order to make a
difference to women's
lives on the ground.
Through
her leadership, UNIFEM
has assisted countries
to formulate and
implement legislation
and policies to realize
women's security and
rights.
This
has led, for example, to
changes in inheritance
laws for women, better
working conditions for
migrant workers, the
inclusion of women as
full citizens in the
constitution of
Afghanistan and as full
participants in several
peace negotiations and
electoral
processes.
UNIFEM
has also quadrupled its
resources, and
successfully advocated
to put issues affecting
women high on the agenda
of the UN system.
Before
joining UNIFEM, Dr
Heyzer was a policy
adviser to several Asian
governments on gender
issues, playing a key
role in the formulation
of national development
policies, strategies and
programmes from a gender
perspective.
She
has done extensive work
at the community level
with women migrant
workers, women in the
informal sector and in
plantations, young women
in prostitution and
female workers in free
trade zones.
Dr
Heyzer has been a
founding member of
numerous regional and
international women's
networks and has
published extensively on
gender and development
issues, especially
economic globalization,
international migration
and trafficking, gender
and trade, and women,
peace and security.
Born
in Singapore, she
received a B.A. and an
M.A. from the University
of Singapore and a
doctorate in social
sciences from Cambridge
University in the United
Kingdom.
She
has received several
awards for leadership
including the
UNA–Harvard Leadership
Award, the Woman of
Distinction Award from
the UN–NGO Committee
on the Status of Women,
NCRW "Women Who
Make a Difference"
Award in 2005, and the
Dag Hammarksjöld medal
in 2004 given to "a
person who has promoted,
in action and spirit,
the values that inspired
Dag Hammarksjöld as
Secretary-General of the
United Nations and
generally in his life:
compassion, humanism and
commitment to
international solidarity
and cooperation."
Latest
Speeches, Statements and
Articles by Noeleen
Heyzer
UNIFEM
30th Anniversary Gala
Dinner – Concluding
Remarks (Speech,
13.05.06)
UNIFEM
at 30 – Remarks by
UNIFEM Executive
Director Noeleen Heyzer
(Speech, 13.05.06)
Exercising
Power for Change
(Statement,
08.03.06)
Implementation
and Accountability:
Building Powerhouses to
Mainstream Gender and to
Achieve the MDGs
(Speech, 27.02.06)
Poverty
and Women's Work in the
Informal Economy
(Speech, 16.02.06)
Statement
of Noeleen Heyzer,
Executive Director,
UNIFEM, on the Occasion
of Introducing Ms Nicole
Kidman as a UNIFEM
Goodwill Ambassador
(Speech, 26.01.06)
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