by AMY LIEBERMAN
The new United Nations gender agency, known as U.N. Women, quietly opened on Jan. 3 without any publicity or announcements.
The superagency’s midtown Manhattan headquarters remain unoccupied, said U.N. Women spokesperson Gretchen Luchsinger. Employees from the four U.N. gender agencies and offices that this new entity is uniting continue to work out of their own, scattered offices around the U.N. Secretariat building.
“Maybe because of the U.N. bureaucracy we have experienced a slow process to seeing U.N. Women become operational,” said Margot Baruch, spokesperson for the Gender Equality Architecture Reform, a civil society coalition with offices in New Brunswick, N.J., that campaigned for U.N. Women’s creation.
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