Previous Campaigns
Help Women Help the World
Help Women Help the World was a campaign supporting the creation of a new UN Agency for Women. Launched in November 2008, the campaign mobilised thousands of supporters, who in turn contacted 88% of all the MPs in the House of Commons.
On the 14th of September 2009 the UN General Assembly’s 192 members unanimously passed a resolution allowing the creation of a new UN Agency for Women and the appointment of an Under-Secretary General to lead it.
This was a truly historic occasion, and one which VSO hopes will mark a real step forward for millions of women around the world.
The efforts of VSO’s campaigners played a crucial role in ensuring the strong support of the UK Government during the final negotiations, which at times we feared would end without agreement. Many thanks to all of you for the part you played in persuading the UN to at last take discrimination against women seriously.
VSO will be keeping a close eye on the UN to ensure that the agency is made operational as quickly as possible and that it receives the funding, mandate and staff it needs to really make a difference.
