Platform for Action

Asian Women’s Resource Exchange or AWORE
Multilingual search, support of the Beijing+5, links, information, suggested actions to take and resources

CPA overview--In Summer 2000, the United Nations and heads of State from its member governments joined together in an effort to assess progress in implementation of the Platform for Action (PFA). The Platform for Action, ratified at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, requested governments to take action in 12 critical areas of concern. This session will afford women throughout the world an opportunity to hold their governments accountable. The Beijing Plus Five Special Session, officially known as Women 2000: Gender Equality Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century, took place June 5-9, 2000 at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

In many countries around the world from the United States to Uganda, NGO's have strengthened their influence by forming national coalitions around the strategic objectives in the PFA. The United States, with the upcoming presidential elections, had an unprecedented opportunity to amplify and leverage women's voices and leadership in the domestic and international policy arenas. It had a chance to define the national agenda by identifying issues and strategies that connect the global and domestic agendas.

CPA Center for Policy Alternatives
In support of the Beijing+5 Platform. Links and resources.

Women Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first century
The Girl Child. In French and English a follow up to Beijing + 5 conference 2000

GirlsRights.org
Working groups on girls. Newsletter, working groups and information to support the Platform for Action from the Beijing Women's Conference