In progress at UNHQ

Women and gender issues


WOM/1496
04/03/2005
Press Release
WOM/1496

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

10th Meeting (PM)


FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF 1995 BEIJING ACTION PLAN FOR WOMEN ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVING


GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY GOALS, WOMEN’S COMMISSION DECLARES


Consensus Adoption of Text Ends First Week

Of Session Aimed at Reviewing Progress towards Gender Equality

WOM/1491
2/3/2005
Press Release
WOM/1491

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-Ninth Session

5th & 6th Meetings (AM & PM)


Women’s efforts to take rightful place in societies after tragedy of war

 

highlighted, as women’s commission concludes high-level debate


Hears from 48 More Speakers in Review

Of Progress 10 years after Beijing Women’s Conference

WOM/1488
28/02/2005
Press Release
WOM/1488

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

1st & 2nd Meetings (AM & PM)


NO TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT MORE POWERFUL THAN WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT, SAYS


SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS WOMEN’S COMMISSION OPENS 2005 SESSION


Aims to Review Progress 10 Years after Beijing Conference;

Speakers Say Much Achieved, But Large Gap Remains between Policy, Practices