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Beijing +15 from Hopes to Disappointment and Non-accountability

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Lydia Alpízar Durán was invited to address the annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). She shares her reflections as someone who joined the women's movement in the midst of the Beijing preparations as a youth activist. She discusses the importance of the development community focusing on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and going beyond the Millennium Development Goals. She presents key insights from the work on advancing women's rights and gender equality over the last 15 years along with a review of some relevant current trends and concludes with a set of action-oriented recommendations.

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Notes

  1. E/2010/4-E/CN.6/2010/2.

  2. Fore more information see AWID (2009–2010).

  3. UNIFEM (2008).

References

  • AWID (2009–2010) ‘Sub-regional Briefs Series on the Impact of the Crisis on Women's Rights’, available at http://www.awid.org/eng/About-AWID/AWID-News/Brief-Series-Impact-of-the-crisis-on-women-sub-regional-perspectives.

  • Batliwala, Srilatha (2007) ‘Walk Beside Us’, Intervention at the High Level Thematic Debate on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment held by United Nations General Assembly, New York, 6 March.

  • Pearson, Ruth (2010) ‘Gender Perspectives on the Global Economic Crisis’, Oxfam International Discussion Paper, February: 4.

  • UNIFEM (2008) ‘Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009, Who Answers to Women?’, 15.

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Acknowledgements

I thank the following persons for their contributions in the preparation of this presentation: Cecilia Alemany, Srilatha Batliwala, Sanushka Mudaliar and Cindy Clark from AWID, Sandy Schillen from Groots, and Mónica Alemán from the International Forum of Indigenous Women and Zonibel Woods.

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Durán, L. Beijing +15 from Hopes to Disappointment and Non-accountability. Development 53, 202–209 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.2

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