UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides
financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and
strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing
the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its
efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas:
(1) reducing feminized poverty,
(2) ending violence against women,
(3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and (4)
achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace
as well as war.