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WOMEN & HUMAN RIGHTS - DISCUSSION FORUMS

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Welcome to the online discussion moderated by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on “Women and Human Rights”. In 1995, the Beijing Platform for Action identified lack of respect for and inadequate promotion and protection of the human rights of women as critical obstacles against gender equality and empowerment of women. The aim of this discussion is to draw on the collective experiences to identify good practices contributing to the realization and advancement of respect, promotion and protection of Women’s Human Rights.

Introduction

OHCHR have opted to structure its theme to compliment other on-line discussions moderated by sister agencies. The “Women and Human Rights” on-line discussion will thus focus on and around issues of accountability and access to justice. The discussion will start on 1 February and end on 28 February and will address the following sub-themes;

• National legal frameworks – challenges, trends and best practices with respect to legal protection of women's human rights (Week 1);
• Accountability – challenges, trends and best practices with respect to ensuring accountability for violations of human rights of women, including violence against women (Week 2);
• Access to justice – challenges, trends and best practices with respect to women’s access to justice (Week 3);
• Summary, wrap-up and observations (Week 4).

Each week will start with a short introduction to the theme to trigger and encourage a constructive and fruitful on-line discussion, to be summarized and analyzed in order to contribute to the Beijing +15 review.

The discussion on "Women and Human Rights" organized by OHCHR is part of a series of United Nations online discussions dedicated to the fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000); and is coordinated by WomenWatch, an inter-agency project of the United Nations Inter-agency Network on Women and Gender Equality and a unique electronic gateway to web-based information on all United Nations entities' work and the outcomes of the United Nations’ intergovernmental processes for the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Status: Open

Dates: 1 Feb 2010 - 28 Feb 2010

Hosted by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [ UN ENTITY ]

Topics

Topic	Author type	Messages	Status
National legal frameworks	[ UN ENTITY ]	6	Open
Accountability	[ UN ENTITY ]	1	Open
Access to justice	[ UN ENTITY ]	0	Closed
Summary, wrap-up and observations	[ UN ENTITY ]	0	Closed

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