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Center for Women's Global Leadership

Beijing +5 Special Session
"Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century"

Beijing+5 reflections- Center for Women's Global Leadership & Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
NGOs respond to women 2000 UN outcomes document (Linkage Caucus Statement)

Center for Women's Global Leadership

Women 2000: A Symposium on Future Directions for Human Rights (June 4, 2000): Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University, New York, USA. The Symposium highlighted the human rights implications of the review, looked at the future of human rights in this decade, and assessed the advances and challenges of women's human rights concepts and advocacy over the past ten years.
Working Paper on a Human Rights Based Approach to Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action
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Women's Human Rights and Beijing + 5 (December 10, 1999), statement delivered by Charlotte Bunch

Background Papers and Analysis

As Usual, Words and Interests, by Sonia Onufer Correa
Gender Justice and Economic Justice: Reflections on the Five Year Reviews of the UN Conferences of the 1990's, by Gita Sen and Sonia Onufer Correa
The International Criminal Court: the Beijing Platform in Action - Putting the ICC on the Beijing +5 Agenda, The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice
Gender on the Agenda: A Guide to Participating in Beijing+5, UNIFEM Alternative Reports: Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) has been gathering alternative/shadow reports. For more information please contact Rebecca Nichols at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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 here.

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.

Schedule for Outcomes Document Work As We Know it Now:

• April 28: Final government amendments must be submitted to the Bureau.

• May 5: The Compilation Text will be completed.

• May 8-12: Intersessional meetings will be held to negotiate the text.

• May 15,16: Devoted also to group (G77, etc.) preparation on document.

• May 24, 25: Intersessional meetings may be held to negotiate the text.

• 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 here.

UN Beijing+5 Review and Appraisal List of Relevant Reports and Documents: Other UN documents related to the Beijing + 5 Review

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

International Campaigns

Equality Now: "Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing + 5 Review Process"
Equality Now and Group on Equal Rights for Women UN Briefing, October 11, 1999. Statement delivered by Charlotte Bunch.
International Alert: "From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table: Women Building Peace"
The See Change Campaign: Change the Holy See's status at the United Nations, Catholics for a Free Choice
Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE): Video and audio coverage of the Beijing + 5 Review Process

Regional NGO Websites