Women Art Exhibition to Celebrate UN Day

Women Art Exhibition to Celebrate UN Day

October 24, 2006

 
 
    BEIJING, Oct. 24 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- An Art
Exhibition featuring Chinese women artists was unveiled
today at the United Nations Compound in Beijing to
celebrate the 61st Anniversary of the United Nations and
the UN Day, in partnership with the Three Quarters Art
Gallery.
 
    "The United Nations is making strong efforts to
harness the power of Chinese culture to raise awareness on
pressing development challenges in China and mobilize
support from all sectors of the society to address these
challenges", said Khalid Malik, UN Resident
Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in China. 
 
    "This exhibition is aimed to provide access to the
voice of Chinese women artists on this special occasion in
an effort to empower women and promote gender equity in
China," he added. 
 
    The Exhibition features 14 leading and emerging China's
women artists including Wang Yingchun, He Yulan, Chen
Qingqing, Pan Ying, Peng Wei, among others. According to
Malik, this initiative is a continued effort of the UN
Development Programme to engage the culture sector in China
to contribute to development work, as the culture sector
plays an important and unique role in promoting the
attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and an
all-around Xiao Kang society. 
 
    UNDP has been active in exploring innovative ways of
reaching out to China's culture sector and engaging them in
development. Some key activities include rotating art
exhibitions of Chinese artists in the UNDP China Office,
forging partnership with prominent Chinese artists for the
MDG campaign, contribution fro, Chinese artists for the
UNDP Environmental Awareness Programme, and a donation from
the prominent artist Huang Yongyu to the UN System in China
of a painting featuring World Peace, which is displaced in
the UN Large Conference Room of the UN Compound in Beijing.

 
    The exhibition also coincides with the launch of the UN
Resource and Information Center, located in the UN Compound
in China. The Resource Center will be open to the general
public and help them to learn and find more about the UN
mandate and its initiatives and activities, in both China
and worldwide. 
 
    For more information, please contact:

     Wu Tao
     Tel:   [phone] 
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  UN in China