Plans
for the Beijing +5 Review:
"Women
2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st
Century"
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primary goal of the Center for Women's Global Leadership's
(Global Center) work leading up to the Beijing + 5 review
will be to advance a feminist human rights perspective
through reflection, mobilization and action. |
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- Rights
Based Analysis of the Beijing +5 Review
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The
Global Center will coordinate and distribute a working
paper, in collaboration with a small international committee,
that will articulate a feminist rights-based approach
to the Beijing review and beyond. The paper will be the
basis for a global discussion which will be held on-line.
These discussions will begin with the Claim Women's
Human Rights discussion on WomenWatch, http://www.un.org/womenwatch/forums/beijing5/hrights/hrights.htm
(8 November 1999 - 17 December 1999) and will continue
on WhrNet, http://www.whrnet.org
throughout the review process.
For
more information on the Beijing + 5 Global Forum, see
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/forum/index.html. |
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- Monitoring
and Advocacy at the 44th Session of the Commission
on the Status of Women (CSW) Meetings
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The
Global Center is monitoring plans for and will be active
at the Commission on the Status of Women Meetings, February
28 - March 17, 2000. The Center will convene a regular women's
human rights caucus there. In addition, the Center will
raise women's human rights perspectives by participating
in different caucuses/issues areas, such as: women of color,
economic rights, young women, grassroots women, violence
against women, women in war and conflict, and lesbian rights.
For
more information on the Commission on the Status of Women
Meetings, see http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/index.html. |
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- ECE
Regional Meeting (January 19 - 21, 2000 in Geneva)
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The
Global Center is actively monitoring plans for the ECE Regional
meeting and working with other women's human rights advocates
to ensure the strongest possible articulation of a commitment
to advancing women's human rights in the proceedings of
the ECE. For
more information on the ECE Regional Preparatory Meeting,
see http://www.unece.org/women/beijing%2b5/. |
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- Beijing
+ 5 Monitoring and Advocacy in the USA
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The
Global Center will join other US based NGOs interested in
women's human rights in advocacy efforts to support a strong
rights based approach to the Beijing + 5 review by the US
government. Through its alerts and website it will encourage
the broad participation of US women's groups in assessing
the US government's record of meeting its commitments to
the Beijing Platform for Action and is participating
in some of the US regional preparatory meetings.
For
more information on the US government's activities around
Beijing + 5, see the President's Interagency Council on
Women at http://secretary.state.gov/www/picw/beijing/index.html. |
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- Women's
Human Rights Symposium - June 4, 2000
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This
major symposium will provide the opportunity for public
and collective reflection on women's human rights concepts
and advocacy over the past 10 years. Veteran activists whose
work has helped to formulate and operationalize a feminist
human rights approach will present their view of key challenges
for the future along with new and emerging voices in the
global women's human rights network. The goal of the symposium
will be to elaborate visions and identify challenges and
strategies for the next decade. |
