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<TD><IMG title="" alt=""> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR><FONT size=2>Dear Friends,<BR><BR>The Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign (GEAR) is pleased to announce the launch of the official Global GEAR Campaign Website.</FONT><BR></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(22,0,1); FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face=Arial><BR>From 7 June onwards </FONT><A title="" href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=FMvs_&m=JFNmauxOiqJfl7&b=EO6BRbaHFZoX3AwK_Df6DA%20%20" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Arial>www.gearcampaign.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial> will keep you informed about the latest developments regarding the creation of the new UN gender equality entity, and about GEAR Campaign activities in all the regions. The global GEAR Campaign website replaces the European GEAR Campaign website <A href="http://www.un-gear.eu/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.un-gear.eu</A>.</FONT><BR><BR>***</SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2><B><FONT face=Arial>The Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign (GEAR) is pleased to announce the launch of the official Global GEAR Campaign Website.<BR><BR>The GEAR Campaign invites civil society organizations and individuals from around the world to join the global campaign to create a strong new United Nations agency for women's rights. Join us at <A title="" href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=FMvs_&m=JFNmauxOiqJfl7&b=EO6BRbaHFZoX3AwK_Df6DA" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.gearcampaign.org</A> and make history by helping to build a United Nations that really works for all women!<BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><BR>The United Nations is undergoing a historic reform process that has the potential to change the status quo for women's rights all over the world by creating a new, strong, and well-resourced UN agency for gender equality and
women's empowerment.<BR><BR>Hundreds of civil society organizations from all over the world have been working together over the last four years as the global Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign to press governments and the UN Secretariat to improve the UN's work on gender equality and women's empowerment by consolidating the existing UN gender equality bodies into a single strong women's entity.<BR><BR>While the United Nations Member States negotiate about the creation of the new gender equality entity, the GEAR Campaign wants to keep you updated with critical information. The website, <A title="" href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=FMvs_&m=JFNmauxOiqJfl7&b=EO6BRbaHFZoX3AwK_Df6DA" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.gearcampaign.org</A>, offers civil society organizations and individuals up-to-date information about the creation of the new entity, as well as resources to participate in making this reform a reality.<BR><BR>The GEAR
Campaign invites you to visit the website and take action by sending a letter to your government and signing the petition to "Make the United Nations more effective in realizing women's rights" that GEAR representatives will deliver to the United Nations President of the General Assembly, H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki in mid June.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Contact: <A title="" href="http://us.mc508.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gearcampaign@gmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:gearcampaign@gmail.com">gearcampaign@gmail.com</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><BR>European GEAR Campaign Working Group, European Women's Lobby, 18 rue Hydraulique, Brussels 1210, Belgium <BR><BR>
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