about the Beijing platform for action and the 12 key areas.what has and
hasn’t been achieved and the challenges that lie ahead.
break the back of the issue of gender equalityParticula new challenges
are violence in conflict situations targeted at women.technology is all
pervasive and is a new challenge.violence against women’s key target
area and the question of poverty and inequality must be
addres
There was a significant hum across the auditorium as xxx spoke these words, many of us recognising them as words that would linger throughout this historic xxx
She spoke of the next fifteen years – of breaking the back of gender equality once and for all, and she talked of the ‘Last Mile’. The aim during this time? "We want to achieve gender equality by 2030; 50/50 – "the cut off line; the expiry date"
She asked that we "learn and drink from the fountain that will make the future very different" and that
projects to make this next as decisive as we want it to be step it up
women’s conference in Mexico, 1975. Having enjoyed the performance from four female singers,
representing Italy, Haiti, Japan and India, the crowd hushed in preperation for the four speakers as they read the
declarations from Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi and Beijing.
Soon-Young Yoon took the floor and traced both the
progress and lack of progress made women in the twenty years since
Beijing. Stressing that the claim that all issues are women’s issues,
means that civil society is of vital importance to the UN.
implementation and it will be the role of NGOs to monitor their own governments to make sure that they are committed to ensuring that "women’s
rights are human rights" and that this mission is embedded in both polies and actions, as we move
towards the SDG. Soon-Young ended by telling us that in the Chinese calendar it is
now the year of the sheep which presages creative and unusual happenings
for peace so a challenge for us to make this happen.
enough we have to "step it up"
the CSW NGO committee from NewYork then spoke tous from the heart and
without a note.her passion is the topic of modern day slavery She is a
journalist who produced a documentary called "The selling of innocents"
villages there were no girls between the ages of 9-25so her question
Where are they?toher horror the answer was that they had been trafficked
across the border and were now working the sex trade in Mumbai.the
stories she told of the women she met in the brothels were heart
breaking.so she made the documentary about them .As a result she was
threaded with a knife and only saved by the women themselves who
challenged the men to kill all 22of them!
imploring governments to increase investment in these lost girls.She
demanded that we all "Walk the last mile if we stand by the last girl"
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