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Further Actions and Initiatives to Implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

Document number
1092
Date
2000
Title
Further Actions and Initiatives to Implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Author/publisher
United Nations (UN)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
Women's rights; International law; Protection;
Summary
Five years after the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women, Beijing + 5 was held in New York in June 2000. Beijing +5 was a five-day special session of the UN General Assembly to appraise and assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) around the world. The Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Beijing +5 took place in June 2000 and was called "Women: 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century." The preparations for the Beijing Conference in 1995, and Beijing + 5 in June 2000, were conducted by the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which presented to the UN General Assembly the final documents of the meetings to be endorsed. In addition to assessing progress in implementing the BPFA, the UN General Assembly also considered further actions and initiatives. Two documents were negotiated and adopted by the governments attending: the first is a short Political Declaration; the second is a lengthier document containing a review of the current implementation, and further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and the BPFA.
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