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The implementation of the Platform for Action requires commitment from Governments and the international community. By making national and international commitments for action, including those made at the Conference, Governments and the international community recognize the need to take priority action for the empowerment and advancement of women.
Discussions and reviews of progress on the Beijing Platform for Action and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) will also take place at the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York, on March 9–20, 2020. [34]
In 1995, the Commission held the Fourth World Conference for Action, better known as the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. [14] This followed three other conferences addressing the needs and rights of women around the world. [15]
Following the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war in October 2023, the Israeli military advanced into the Gaza Strip.This crisis prompted the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and the Hamas leadership to try to reach a new agreement on a unity government with the goal of reaching a common plan of action for the eventual reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
As the Beijing Platform for Action states, "women's equal participation in political life plays a pivotal role in the general process of the advancement of women." [ 6 ] Further, according to the Beijing Platform for Action "[w]ithout the active participation of women and the incorporation of women's perspective at all levels of decision-making ...
2020 marked the 25th anniversary of the fourth World Women's Conference, and UN Women has created the Generation Equality Forums in 2021 to build on the Beijing Platform for Action. [12] The forums are convened by UN Women to set concrete actions to achieve progress for Gender Equality. [13]
The NGO/CSW/NY assists girls and women of all ages to advocate and organize for the implementation of global agreements, including the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies, Beijing Platform for Action, UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (among others), the Millennium Development Goals and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...
For 2014, the focus was on how violence cuts across all 12 of the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which turned 20 in 2015. [7] In her message for 25 November 2014, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said: [8] In 1995, close to 20 years ago, 189 governments came together in Beijing.