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Background on Beijing +15

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This year marks the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. The Beijing Platform – the most comprehensive global policy framework to achieve the goals of gender equality, development and peace – called for action on twelve key issues:

 

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Daily LinksThe CSW Beijing Plus Fifteen review conference is being held from 1-8 March 2010 in New York.

African Woman and Child Feature Service (AWC), Gender Links, the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC), and the Gender, Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network aim to bring the voices of women not able to attend the CSW, especially from Africa, to the conference.

The partners will produce a a daily newspaper distributed in hard copy at the conference as well as online. The paper will be debated through daily cyberdialogues from 2-5 and 8 March. Excerpts from the chat will feature on the website and in the newspaper.

 

Beijing Plus 15 Cyber Dialogues

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Gender Links, the Gender and Media Diversity Centre, Gender and Media Southern Africa Network and the African Women and Child Feature Service in collaboration with UNIFEM and the World Bank invite you to join the Beijing Plus 15 cyber dialogues that will be held simultaneously in three chat rooms in French, Spanish and English from 9 am to 10 am New York Time. You can join the chats by signing in as a member of the GEM Community and then following the instructions to log into the cyber dialogues.

 

 

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