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Call to Action

More than Half the Globe's People need their own UN Agency

Unleashing the energy and potential of women is the greatest unused asset in the world. Advancing and empowering women, and moving them into the halls of economic and political power may be the key to solving our most pressing global problems.

FIVE YEARS AGO. Leaders from 180 countries agreed on a sweeping plan to eradicate poverty, recognizing that equality of men and women was central to improving the lot of the world's poorest people.

ELEVEN YEARS AGO. The 4th World Conference on Women, in 1995: 189 Governments agreed to equal presentation and committed themselves to achieve the Bejing Platform For Action.

Since then there has been only a 5% increase in equal gender balance in governments worldwide!

What we are seeing, instead of growing liberation, is the severe subjugation of women, and an alarming escalation of HIV/AIDS, and violence against women around the world.

Call on World Leaders to Create a New U.N. Agency for Women

Take Action by calling on World Leaders to create a Powerful New U.N. Agency for Women

Stephen Lewis, the UN special envoy for AIDs in Africa, is shepherding a proposal to create a powerful new UN Agency to advance women's rights, health and security. His passion to bring these issues before the world's leaders couldn't be timelier.

Stephen Lewis:
One of The Most Influential Human Rights Advocates in the world today.

If endorsed, the new women's agency would be on the agenda for 191 member countries when the UN General Assembly opens in September. The final decision will not likely happen till the New Year, when the new U.N. Secretary General takes over in the New Year.

The rights and needs of women in the U.N. system are largely unattended. "They make up more than half of the world's population but efforts to address their problems have been a travesty" Stephen Lewis.

Act Now

Live8, the most momentous global media event to date captured our hope and optimism and rallied the world to fight against poverty and lobbied the G8 leaders to make promises on debt relief, AIDS drugs, trade tariffs and education.

NOW is a defining moment for the world to carry through on its promises.

Women AID Live! will be a true testament to the will of humanity and to the power of music to inspire action.

The WomenAID Live! Concert, the first historic multi media event to celebrate the women of the world is ideally situated to continue the call to action to the world leaders to own up to its established commitments. Positive social change and the advancement of women worldwide will only come about by world opinion.

As things are, there is no chance of reaching the Millennium Development Goals, for ending world poverty and reaching gender equality by 2015.

Become a member of the great generation that had the power to create a better future for the women and children of the world - and did so.

IT'S UP TO US NOW!

Take Action

Keep the Live 8 Promise: Take Action. At Live 8, millions came together with one message: make poverty history. 5 days later, G8 leaders made historic promises that could save up to 4 million lives every year. Sign a petition today asking America's leaders to keep our promises to the world's poorest people.

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I have every faith in our collective power to make a significant and lasting difference. We owe it to our children and to our children's children to try.

President Bill Clinton - www.clintonglobalinitiative.org

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The measure of a woman is what she does with power on behalf of other women.

Kay Koplovitz
Founder of USA Networks

This is a pivotal moment in history for our generation to spearhead a movement to alleviate poverty, AIDS, and the violence against women and build a shared sense of responsibility for the well-being of the children of the world.

Lili Fournier

World March of Women March for Women's Lives

On International Women’s Day March 8, 2000, and on Oct. 17, 2005, millions of women around the world joined the World March of Women, in a urgent call to action, to end global poverty, war, and the violence against women.

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