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  The Role of National Mechanisms in Promoting Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Report of the Expert Group Meeting

  2005

  This report emerged out of an Expert Group Meeting arranged by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) to contribute to the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
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  Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing +10 - the 'Big purple book'

  Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, 2004

  This 'Big Purple Book' is the draft compilation of the Asia-Pacific regional assessment of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) in the run-up to the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Conference. It highlights urgent factors that have arisen in the last decade, such as globalisation, growing concerns around labour migration, armed conflict and increased trafficking of women.
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  Seventh African Regional Conference on Women (Beijing + 10) Decade Review of the Implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action: Outcome and the Way Forward

  2004

  African ministers in charge of gender and women's affairs met at the Seventh African Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+10), in Addis Ababa in October 2004 to review the status of implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action. They reaffirmed and renewed their commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment.
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  Beijing + 10 Review: A Feminist Strategy for 2004-05, A Working Paper for NGOS on How to Move Forward

  2004

  The world has changed since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) was agreed in 1995. Informed by consultations on the future of women's human rights, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) proposes that NGOs use a 'matrix of interlocking forces' as a critical framework for analysis of progress and obstacles to implementing the BPfA.
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  Pathway to Gender Equality: CEDAW, Beijing, and the MDGs

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and Beijing processes have generated a wealth of understanding and experience of the nature of gender-based discrimination and clarify the steps needed to achieve gender equality.
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  From Beijing to Addis Ababa: What Progress for African Women?

  Pambazuka, 2004

  How far has Africa moved towards fulfilling the goals set out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA)? This paper sets out some priority areas of the BPfA including health, education, involvement in public decision-making structures, armed conflict and eliminating violence against women.
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  Alternative Report to the UK Questionnaire Response of Progress of the Platform for Action and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third Session of the General Assembly

  2004

  The UK government's report on progress in achieving gender equality and women's empowerment as set out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) masks large regional variations between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Women's European Platform (NIWEP) identifies areas where Northern Ireland (NI) in particular falls behind.
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  Partnerships for girls’ education

  Oxfam, 2005

  The idea of partnerships - involving multinational donors, governments, international non-government organisations, the private sector, civil society, and local communities - is increasingly current in debates about development. They are widely seen as the most effective way to achieve sustainable economic and social benefits for the poorest people.
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  Guide for gender-disaggregated data in agriculture and rural development

  Socioeconomic And Gender Analysis Programme, FAO, 2003

  International conferences - from the First World Conference in Mexico in 1975 to the Fourth World Conference in Beijing in 1995 - have highlighted the need for accessible information and data as a starting point for any programme for the advancement of women.
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  Women's political participation and good governance: 21st century challenges

  United Nations Development Programme, 2000

  Women's entry into the realms of governance and their presence and voices in political structures are central to the exercise of citizenship. Influence over policies which affect their lives is hindered by women's primary location in the private and non-political areas of family and community.

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