New UN Women Executive Director, Ms Michele Bachelet, laid out a new 100 day action plan. Ms. Bachelet also laid out five thematic priorities in the country-specific context: expanding women’s voice, leadership and participation; ending violence against women; ensuring women’s full participation in conflict resolution; enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and gender equality priorities central to national, local and sectoral planning and budgeting.

For more details -> UN news release