Beijing+15 • 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) • March 1-12, 2010

15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000)

November 2, 2009, United Nations, Geneva: Margot Baruch presents the North America & Others High Income Countries statement at the Beijing + 15 European Commission of Europe (ECE) Regional Meeting. Click on photo for larger view.

CSW Updates Summaries of CWGL activities are posted by event date below Update on the Commission on the Status of Women by Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator, featured in IAFFE's Spring 2010 newsletter Reflecting on Our Spaces at the CSW by Keely Swan, CWGL Project Coordinator and Margot Baruch, CWGL Program Coordinator Official Resolutions Beijing +15 Joint Civil Society Statement, WIDE Network (English & Spanish) Ensuring Haitian Women’s Participation and Leadership in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction, a Haiti Gender Equality Collaborative 16 Days Campaign Coordinator, Keely Swan, quoted in Website to serve as global hub for ending gender based violence by MediaGlobal (March 18, 2010), discussing the impact of UNIFEM's new Global Virtual Knowledge Center GEAR Up Now! Participants at the 54th session of the CSW, rallying for GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) Photo by Kyoko Shiota GEAR in the news Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, interviewed by KPFA 94.1FM Berkeley on What has the UN Done for Women's Rights (mp3, file size: 10.27 megabytes)(scroll to 31 mins), March 28, 2010 Push to close gender gaps 'slow,' by Barbara Plett, BBC UN correspondent, New York, March 12, 2010 Clinton says U.N. needs more women in top jobs, by Megan Davies, Reuters, United Nations, March 12, 2010

CWGL Sponsored Events

• WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010 (4-5:30pm), Church Center, 2nd Floor: 16 Days Campaign Round-Table Discussion
• SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010 (9:30am-5:30pm), Hunter College Assembly Hall: CWGL's 20th Anniversary Symposium, hosted by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Women's and Gender Studies Program of Hunter College
• SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010 (9pm), International Women's Day Celebration and Dance Party, New Location: V E R M I L I O N, 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY (Corner of 46th St.)

CWGL Co-Sponsored Events

• MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010 (2pm), Church Center, 11th Floor: Counter Terrorism Measures and Women Human Rights Defenders co-organized by Cordaid and the Women Human Rights Defender International Coalition
• MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010 (4-5:30pm), Church Center, 10th Floor: Gender Equality Architecture Reform at the UN, co-sponsored by the GEAR Campaign Working Group
• TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010 (9am-6pm), Proshansky Auditorium, Graduate Center, City University of New York: International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma, convened by Nobel Women’s Initiative and Women’s League of Burma
• TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010 (4-5pm), Church Center, 8th Floor: GEAR Linkage Caucus sponsored by the GEAR Working Group
• WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010 (12-1:30pm), Church Center, 10th Floor: Comparative Strategies to End Violence Against Women, lunch served, Spanish translation provided, co-sponsored by MADRE and CWGL
• THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 (9:30am-12:30pm and 2:30-5:30pm), Millennium Plaza: Articulating an alternative macroeconomic and gender and development framework (Flyer, Summary), sponsored by UNIFEM, in collaboration with AWID, CWGL, IAFFE, DAWN, NGLS, WIDE, WWG- FfD
• MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010 (4-5:30pm), Church Center, 2nd Floor: Advancing Gender Equality – The Impact of CEDAW Ratification on Women's Rights in the U.S. (Blog Summary, Short Video, Full-length Videos, and Photo Slideshow), co-sponsored by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and CWGL
• TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010 (10-11:30am), Church Center, 10th Floor: Race, Gender, and Economic Justice in the United States (Summary), co-sponsored by the Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center, the Opportunity Agenda, and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership
• THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 (6-7:30pm), Church Center, 2nd Floor: Making Gender Equality Architecture Reform a Reality, co-sponsored by the GEAR Campaign Working Group

Radhika Balakrishnan Speaking Engagements

• SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2010 (3-4:20pm), Salvation Army, 120 West 14th Street, NY: 2010 NGO Global Forum for Women: Beijing +15, sponsored by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (Podcast, March 5, 2010, File Size: 9.59 MB)
• THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 (9:30am-12:30pm and 2:30-5:30pm), Millennium Plaza: Articulating an alternative macroeconomic and gender and development framework (Flyer, Summary), sponsored by UNIFEM, in collaboration with AWID, CWGL, IAFFE, DAWN, NGLS, WIDE, WWG- FfD
• SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010 (9:30am-5:30pm), Hunter College Assembly Hall: CWGL's 20th Anniversary Symposium, hosted by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Women's and Gender Studies Program of Hunter College
• MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010 (4-5:30pm), Church Center, 2nd Floor: Advancing Gender Equality – The Impact of CEDAW Ratification on Women's Rights in the U.S. (Blog Summary, Short Video, Full-length Videos, and Photo Slideshow), co-sponsored by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and CWGL
• TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010 (10-11:30am), Church Center, 10th Floor: Race, Gender, and Economic Justice in the United States (Summary), co-sponsored by the Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center, the Opportunity Agenda, and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership

Charlotte Bunch Speaking Engagements

• SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2010 (10:30am-12pm), Salvation Army, 120 West 14th Street, NY: 2010 NGO Global Forum for Women: Beijing +15, sponsored by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (Podcast, March 4, 2010, File Size: 13.15 MB)
• TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010 (9am-6pm), Proshansky Auditorium, Graduate Center, City University of New York: International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma, convened by Nobel Women’s Initiative and Women’s League of Burma
• MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010 (4-5:30pm), Church Center, 10th Floor: Gender Equality Architecture Reform at the UN, co-sponsored by the GEAR Campaign Working Group
• WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010 (1-3pm), Danny Kaye Visitors Center, UNICEF House, 3 UN Plaza (44th Street between 1st & 2nd Avenue), NY: Have Women Forgotten Girls? Bringing Girls to the Heart of Beijing, sponsored by UNICEF
• WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010 (3:15-4:45pm), UN Millennium Plaza Hotel, Riverview Room: Karama Day Long Conference, Leveraging Arab Women’s Power 15 Years after Beijing, 10 Years of MDGs, 30 Years of CEDAW
• SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010 (9:30am-5:30pm), Hunter College Assembly Hall: CWGL's 20th Anniversary Symposium, hosted by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Women's and Gender Studies Program of Hunter College
• MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010 (4-5:30pm), Church Center, 2nd Floor: Advancing Gender Equality – The Impact of CEDAW Ratification on Women's Rights in the U.S. (Blog Summary, Short Video, Full-length Videos, and Photo Slideshow), co-sponsored by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and CWGL
• THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 (1:15-2:45pm), Conference Room E, United Nations TNLB: NGO Participation in the Universal Periodic Review and the UN Human Rights Council, co-sponsored by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), and the Women’s UN Report Network (WUNRN)
  

Other Events

• SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2010, Salvation Army, 120 West 14th Street, NY: 2010 NGO Global Forum for Women: Beijing +15, sponsored by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women
• THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 (5:30-7:30pm), Visual Arts Theater, 333 West 23rd Street: Women Hold the Solutions, sponsored by the Global Fund for Women, RSVP required
• MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010, Brooklyn Bridge, NY: Join Me on the Bridge, sponsored by Women for Women International

NGO Regional Meetings

• Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15, Weaving Wisdom, Confronting Crises, Forging the Future, Manila, Philippines, October 2009.
  • Statements
    • Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15 Speeches
    • NGO Recommendations: Final Declaration of the Asia and Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing +15
  • Resources
    • No Outcome Document But US 1billion equivalent: A serious plenary discussion on a conference outcome document turned into joyful pass-the-hat session in the Marian Theatre of Miriam College, making the convener Patricia Licuanan beam and express, "This is better than a statement."
    • Recasting the Role and Rights of Women in Economies: What can be learned for the Economic Crisis?
• European Commission for Europe (ECE) NGO Roundtable Meeting on the Beijing+15 Regional Review Meeting, The Challenges of Gender Equality in the Context of the Economic and Financial Crisis, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2009.
  • Statements
    • Presentation by Margot Baruch, Center for Women's Global Leadership, delivered during the official governmental session, North America & Others High Income Countries
    • Presentation by June Zeitlin, representing the GEAR Campaign, delivered during the official governmental session, A Partnership between the United Nations and the Women’s Movement
  • Resources
    • UN NGLS Beijing +15 ECE Regional Review Meeting; challenges remain written
    • NGO Recommendations Delivered at the UN ECE Preparatory Meeting on Beijing+15:Overall Recommendations, Thematic NGO Recommendations,Subregional NGO Recommendations
    • NGO ECE Meeting GEAR Caucus Report, October 31, 2009
    • Member States national reports to B+15 questionnaire
      
• Africa Beijing+15 NGO Review Processes, Banjul, Gambia, November 2009
  • FEMNET Press Release: African Governments Challenged to Live-up to Commitments in the Beijing Platform for Action
• Arab States Beijing+15 NGO Shadow Report, Cairo, Egypt, December 2009
  • Press Release: Karama, Alliance for Arab Women, and UNIFEM Present the Regional Beijing+15 NGO Shadow Report for the Arab States in December 2009

Official Regional Meetings

• Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC)
• Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
  • November 18, 2009: Outcome Document
• Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
• Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
• Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
  • November 23, 2009: Chairperson's Conclusions

Resources

• United Nations
  • Official United Nations website for Beijing+15: Global 15-year review process in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
  • Questionnaire to Member States on Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly (2000)
  • Beijing at 15 Online Discussions sponsored by the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE)
• CWGL
  • Beijing+15 Overview and Regional Activities (Español, Français)
  • Important Anniversaries (2009-2010)
  • Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign

Media

• January 2010:Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, interviewed by NGLS about B+15
• January 2010: Beijing+15 by Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator, featured in IAFFE's Fall 2009 newsletter

Archive

• 2005 World Summit, September 2005
• Women 2000: Beijing+5 Special Session