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BEIJING + 20 UNECE NGO FORUM
DECLARATION & RECOMMENDATIONS
http://beijing20.ngocsw-geneva.ch/
The UNECE region member States include Europe & Enlarged
Europe, North America (Canada and United States), Central Asia
(Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan) &
Western Asia (Israel).
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UNECE NGO Forum on Beijing +20
DECLARATION & RECOMMENDATIONS
5 November, 2014
act | advance
| achieve | women's rights
We, the 700 participants in our diversity from around 350 groups,
networks, and institutions and 56
countries, of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
region, gathered in Geneva from 3-5
November 2014 for the NGO Forum review of the Beijing Platform for
Action and recommendations for
the future. The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action for Equality,
Development and Peace was a historic
political commitment to women’s rights and empowerment to advance
gender equality and take forward
the ethos of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW). The Beijing message, building upon the prior
international conferences on women;
population and environment was clear, to the point and relevant
today as 20 years ago: Women’s rights
and gender equality are central to the
world’s attainment of equality, sustainability, development and
peace.
Today, we still aspire for a world – including our ECE region -
where women in our diversity and
everywhere enjoy our human rights, realise our full potential, and
are fully respected members of society;
a world in which our lifestyles, economies and relations
contribute to the harmony of society, ecology and
human wellbeing. We want a world free of violence; a world of
peace, where democracy thrives and
women
can enjoy and exercise their full rights as citizens. A world of
accountability for all and by all……….