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Beijing Betrayed: Women Worldwide Report that Governments Have Failed to Turn the Platform into Action
2005Despite policy gains at Beijing, and despite a decade-worth of efforts to use the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) to achieve legal and policy changes to protect and advance women's rights at the national level, many women in all regions of the world are actually worse off than they were 10 years ago.DocumentBeijing +10, 1995-2005: Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action by the European Union
2004This alternative report maps the actions, legislation and programmes of the European Union (EU) undertaken to implement the 12 areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) since 1995.DocumentArab Regional Report on the Ten-year Review and Appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action
United Nations, 2004This report reviews Arab States' efforts to implement the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly. Based on 18 out of 22 country responses to a questionnaire, it reveals strong commitment on the part of most Arab countries to advancing gender equality and empowering women.DocumentBackground Document: Expert Group Meeting in Preparation for the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004How far have Asian and Pacific societies come in meeting the recommendations of the Beijing Platform for Action? In part due to the commitments made at Beijing, national and regional development efforts have paid increasing attention to gender equality and the empowerment of women. Women have gained rights to economic and civic participation, and reproductive health and education.DocumentThe Role of National Mechanisms in Promoting Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Report of the Expert Group Meeting
2005This 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).DocumentAsia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing +10 - the 'Big purple book'
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, 2004This '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.DocumentSeventh 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
2004African 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.DocumentBeijing + 10 Review: A Feminist Strategy for 2004-05, A Working Paper for NGOS on How to Move Forward
2004The 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.DocumentPathway to Gender Equality: CEDAW, Beijing, and the MDGs
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004The 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.DocumentAfrican Women Citizens of the Information Society: Advocacy Document for Decision Makers
2004The digital revolution will have a profound effect on relations between women and men. However, this is ignored by those who have brought in this revolution, seeking only short term profits in an environment of increasing global competition. In the process of national reform of the ICT sector, women and civil society organisations have not been consulted.Pages