Beijing
+5 Special Session
"Women
2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century"
Center
for Women's Global Leadership
Background
Papers and Analysis
UN
Beijing plus Five Documents
Political
Declaration:
On Friday, 17 March 2000, the Draft Political Declaration (E/CN.6/2000/PC/L.5)
was adopted. This document is therefore no longer open to negotiation.
It can be obtained at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/pd.htm.
Beijing
plus Five Review Proposed Outcome Document: On March 23, 2000,
the Bureau established an extended bureau group, including the representatives
of negotiating groups, to streamline the draft outcomes document.
Since then, the extended Bureau has held meetings to review the
document in terms of duplications, and appropriate placing of paragraphs.
The outcome of the work of the extended Bureau was presented to
the delegations during informal consultations on April 20, 2000.
The content and wording of the outcome document as contained in
E/CN.6/2000/PC/L.1/Rev.2 was not to change but merely be reorganized
within its existing structure. The streamlined document can be found
on the DAW website http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/followup/streamlinefin.pdf.
Schedule
for Outcomes Document Work As We Know it Now:
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April 28: Final government amendments must be submitted to the Bureau.
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May 5: The Compilation Text will be completed.
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May 8-12: Intersessional meetings will be held to negotiate the
text.
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May 15,16: Devoted also to group (G77, etc.) preparation on document.
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May 24, 25: Intersessional meetings may be held to negotiate the
text.
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May 26, 30-2: PrepCom for Special Session.
Status of the Document Negotiations: Overall, the proceedings
are moving very slowly, with only 30 paragraphs agreed to in the
200+ paragraphs/87 page streamlined document currently being negotiated.
The most current version of the streamlined text, reflecting language
proposed during the intersessional meetings as of May 17 can be
found at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/followup/infocon.pdf.
UN
Beijing+5 Review and Appraisal List of Relevant Reports and Documents:
For other UN documents related to the Beijing + 5 Review go to http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/followup/reports.htm
and http://www.unifem.org/.
Regional
Preparatory Reports
- ESCAP
(Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific),
October 26-29, 1999, Bangkok, Thailand
- ESCWA
(Economic Commission for Western Asia), December 12-15, 1998
& November 29-December 1, 1999, Beirut, Lebanon
- ECE
(Economic Commission for Europe), January 19-21, 2000, Geneva,
Switzerland
- ECLAC
(Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean),
February 8-10, 2000, Lima, Peru
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