UN to establish gender equality body

The UN General Assembly reached an “informal agreement” to establish a single UN body with greater clout to promote equality for women.

Jamal Benomar, chief of staff to the General Assembly president, said that the 192-member world body scheduled a meeting this afternoon to adopt a resolution merging four existing UN bodies into a new “United Nations entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, to be known as UN Women”.