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Article
8 of the United Nations Charter: stipulates that "the
United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility
of men and women to participate in any capacity and under
conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs."
OSAGI,
the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement
of Women, is one of the best resources on gender mainstreaming
at the UN. It provides a regularly updated, very complete
section on gender
balance statistics and many other UN documents relating
to gender issues.
UNIFEM
has done extensive work on gender mainstreaming within the
UN.
UN
Division for the Advancement of Women has several
sections on gender mainstreaming and UN employment.
UN employee associations include:
Recent articles on the UN's position
on the issue of same sex marriage and benefits include:
Young
vs. Australia. Human Rights Committee, ICCPR:
finding on same sex relationship benefits
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