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This section of the WHRnet website highlights information, analyses and debates taking place at the international level on women’s human rights. It documents shifts in policy, points of views, information of key meetings and more. We welcome your contributions to this section – please send to whrnet@awid.org.

The UN World Summit

	The largest ever summit of world leaders commenced on 14th September 2005 in New York, gathering the world's most powerful leaders from 191 countries. Latest Updates Related Links

Beijing + 10

	Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Beijing Platform for Action Beijing + 5 International An International Dialogue: Young Women Organizing for Change Roundtable Discussion in Conjunction with UN CSW Meetings National Council for Research on Women Disabled Peoples' International Beijing + 10: Position Paper on Women with Disabilities Final CSW Trafficking Resolution: Eliminating Demand for Trafficked Women and Girls for All Forms of Exploitation NGO Intervention on Behalf of the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies Women's Rights Conference Reaches Fragile Consensus on Trafficking Statement by the NGO-CSW Caucus on Violence Against Women and the Sexual Exploitation of Women Forty-Ninth Session of The Commission on The Status of Women, 28 February to 11 March 2005 Expert Group Reports DAW: Expert Consultation on Regional Perspectives in the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly Aide-Mémoire, May 2004 UNRISD: Report on Gender and Development: 10 years after Beijing. For March 2005 UNRISD is preparing a research-based policy report on gender and development in order to shed light on some of the critical policy issues highlighted in the Beijing Platform for Action. National National Government Reports Australian Beijing + 5 Outcome Country reports At-A-Glance Table for Country Info India: Report by Government of India to United Nations Questionnaire on Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action NGO/ Shadow reports SARPN: Towards Beijing +10: Which way Southern Africa? A Report on the SADC Gender and Women's Empowerment NGO Focal Points Working Session on Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action held on 25 April 2004 Lusaka, Zambia Equality Now: Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing + 10 Review Process Thematic reports Regional Regional Commissions ECA: Report of Sub-regional Report of the Decade Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Southern Africa Lusaka, Zambia, 26 - 29 April 2004 Ten years after Beijing Conference: Are women better off? Geneva, Switzerland, 10 December 2004 Recommendations from the UNECE Forum of NGO's Trafficking Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 12-13 December 2004 Emerging Issues from the NGO Beijing + 10 Review, UNECE Regional Preparatory Meeting - Europe & North America on the 10-Year Review of the Beijing Platform for Action, 15 December 2004 Regional Forums, Discussions WILDAF: Beijing + 10 in Africa: 16 West African NGOS will be meeting on August 26th and 27th in Lomé for the evaluation of the implementation of the Beijing platform WILDAF: At the invitation of the Economic Commission for Africa (African Centre for Gender and Development), 58 organizations, out of which WiLDAF/FeDDAF - West Africa, have participated in the consultative meeting at the UN Economic Commission in Africa from July 22-23 2004 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Consultative meeting report Working groups report Choike: On-line discussions Choike: B + 10 Regional Meetings Preparations for the African Women NGO Forum on Beijing + 10 to be held in October this year have been initiated with the appointment of an organising committee. Regional Reports and Declarations Issues and Analyses Choike: Beijing + 10 debates Useful Materials and Links United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women: Home page of the Review and Appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome Document of the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime - 2000

Millennium Development Goals

	Official Documents United Nations Gender Equality and the Gender Millenium Goals Millennium Development Goal Indicators Database International Fréchette Calls for Closer Ties Between UN and Business in Service of Development UN Summit Meeting in 2005 to Review Progress Towards Global Anti-Poverty Goals Expert Group reports (CSW, DAW, UNIFEM) UNIFEM: Progress of the World's Women: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals WHO: "En-Gendering" the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Health HDR: Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty World Bank & UNDP: Workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals: Wednesday Nov. 19 - Thursday Nov. 20, 2003 Workshop Report United Nations Statistics Division: Millennium Indicators Database World Bank: Getting Serious About Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: A Comprehensive Development Framework Progress Report Paris21: A Better World For All: Progress towards the International Development Goals Regional Regional Commissions UNDP: Millennium Development Goals: National Reports A look through a Gender Lens Country-Regional Studies and Strategies Wide array of country and regional reports National National Government Reports UNDP: Country reports An Assessment by the UN Country Team in China: Millennium Development Goals; China's Progress Country-Regional Studies and Strategies Wide array of country and regional reports Non-Governmental Resources, Training and Perspectives International Organizing Committees Regional Regional Forums, Discussions German Foundation for International Development: International Policy Dialogue; Millennium Development Goals Regional Forum "UN Millennium Development Goals -Perspectives for the North-Western Region" Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, 20 November Forum on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in West Africa Declaration ConcorEurope: Financing for Development and the Millennium Development Goals : Conference Brussels May 12-14, 2003 Southern Africa Regional Poverty Network: MDG issues Regional Forum on the Millennium Development Goals - Uganda Delegation Report Regional Reports and Declarations UNESCAP & UNDP: Promoting the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women Issues and Analyses Center for Global Development: The trouble with the MDGs Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice: Seeking Accountability on Women's Rights: Women Debate the Millennium Development Goals World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA): Mainstreaming Gender to Achieve the MDGs More issues and analyses National NGO/ Shadow reports Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality an the Millennium Development Goals; A WEDO information and action guide Thematic reports Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Measuring Universal Primary Completion in Latin America Discrimination against women in the Ukrainian Labor Force Useful Materials and Links UN Development Group: The Millennium Project Women's rights division of the HRW The Windhoek Declaration: Namibia, 31st May 2000 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women General Assembly resolution 48/104 of 20 December 1993, 23rd February 1994 Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences Web site includes individual sections on Country Visits, Issues in Focus and Annual Reports International Labor Organization: Gender Mainstreaming in the Programs and Policies of Labor Ministries International Labor Organization Article: World AIDS Day 2004 HIV/AIDS and the world of work: Women bear the brunt

Commission on the Status of Women

	Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

Commission on Human Rights

	Inaugural Session of the Human Rights Council – 19 to 30 June 2006 The newly constituted Human Rights Council has concluded its first session, which began on 19 June, 2006 adopting eight resolutions, three decisions and two statements by the President. Integration of the human rights of women and a gender perspective Joint Statement delivered by Dr. Ilka Bailey-Wiebecke on behalf of fifteen NGOs. (April 2005) Latest news from the Commission on Human Rights by Ana Elena Obando (April 2005) More News from the 61st Session of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR)e by Ana Elena Obando (April 2005) 61st Session of the Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, March 16 to April 22, 2005 by Ana Elena Obando (April 2005)