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Location : | Kathmandu, NEPAL |
Application Deadline : | 09-Jun-17 (Midnight New York, USA) |
Type of Contract : | Internship |
Post Level : | Intern |
Languages Required : | English |
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) | 03-Jul-2017 |
Duration of Initial Contract : | 6 months, full-time/ 40 hours per week |
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UN Women is the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with government, civil society and other relevant actors.
In Nepal, UN Women is currently implementing its 2014-17 Strategic Note and Annual Work plan which incorporates several thematic areas, including economic empowerment, governance and leadership, ending violence against women and girls, and peace and security. Across all its work, UN Women has been working on governance, access to Justice, transitional justice, legal reforms activities on gender equality and omen’s empowerment perspectives.
A new portfolio of Governance and Leadership has been created in UN Women Nepal Country Office (NCO) in 2016 to support on governance, access to justice, transitional justice, legal reform. UN Women will also engage partners by leveraging the capacity of concerned stakeholders like justice sector actors, civil society, government institutions. The purpose of this internship is to provide support to legal reform, access to justice, transitional justice related activities of the NCO. The intern will receive overall supervision from Governance and leadership Unit.
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UN Women Nepal is looking for a full-time intern to support Governance and Leadership unit activities in a variety of fields. Under the supervision of the Governance and Leadership Unit, the intern should take part in the following assignments:
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UN Women Internship Policy Applicants to the United Nations internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:
Note: In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks. |
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