The World Health Organization is pleased to announce its support to the International Geneva Gender Champions. This initiative, led by the United Nations Office at Geneva and the Permanent Mission of the United States, is a leadership network that brings together female and male decision-makers to break down gender barriers. Forty diplomatic missions and twenty international organizations based in Geneva, including WHO, have signed on as Champions and have taken the Gender Panel Parity Pledge which aims to increase representation of female experts in panels.