please email africa@apcwomen.org should you have resources and links on Beijing+10.

New Links
http://www.uneca.org/beijingplus10/
A new website hosted by UNECA with important resources, news, links to related organisations and information on Beijing+10.

Towards Beijing + 10 : Which Way Southern Africa? A Report on the SADC Gender and Women’s Empowerment NGO Focal Points Working Session on Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action held on 25 April 2004 Lusaka, Zambia. [Download this in PDF]

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PeaceWomen.org webpage on Beijing +10

http://www.peacewomen.org/un/Beijing10%20/beijing10index.html
Information and links to global and regional initiatives on Beijing+10. Website produced by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Beijing +10: Conference on Women review
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1665.html

The review launched with Beijing +10 finds itself in the midst of a debate concerning its desirability. Several NGOs have expressed concern over the risks of losing the gains achieved under the platforms adopted at the Conferences in the 1990s, and at the same time are raising questions as to both the efficacy of such world conferences in securing the economic, political and social rights of women, and the strategic roles that feminist activists can play at such events. The same dynamics were at play in the five year review processes. Both Cairo +5 and Beijing +5 revealed the risks faced by the current women's agenda.

Women's Environment and Development Organisation
This website provides all the information you need to prepare for regional meetings. There is a table with information on key targets and events; strategy, negotiated text or not, participants and players as well as when and where the regional preparatory meetings will be held.

online debates

http://www.awid.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/07/0032236&mode=nocomment
Invitation to participate: "5th World Conference/Beijing + 10 Debate" / AWID / To participate please subscribe by sending a message to lists@awid.org. Please leave the subject line blank and write: "subscribe 5worldconferencewomen" (without quotes) in the text of the message. Contributions can be made in either French, Spanish and English.
With the proliferation of resources, energy and participation of NGOs in the numerous UN system world conferences, it is time that the feminist movement begin to ask important questions around not only the efficacy of such world conferences in securing the economic, political and social rights of women, but the strategic roles that feminist activists can play at such events. It is time that we ask ourselves how we are benefiting from such participation.

http://www.eurosur.org/wide/UN/WCW.htm
WIDE (Network Women in Development Europe)discussion forum on the pro's and con's of a 5th high level UN Conference on Women in 2005.

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web sites

http://www.fire.or.cr/oct02/awid/stateworld1.htm
The statement entitled Draft Criteria for a Proposed Women's Summit about the State of the World by by María Suárez Toro Feminist International Radio Endevour - FIRE.

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resources

Passport to Dignity
A Publication by PDHRE, People's Movement for Human Rights Education
With Foreword by Shulamith Koenig and Epilog by Ivanka Corti

Connecting the 12 areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), to the human rights framework for the fulfillment of human rights of women of all ages, worldwide.

The 536 pages guide and workbook uses the comprehensive framework of the BPFA to demonstrate the holistic nature of human rights as a powerful tool for action in the achievement of full equality, well being, and participation in the decisions that determine women's lives. The book recounts particular examples of women's initiatives throughout the world along the lines of the BPFA.
It is meant as a dynamic and interactive process whereby readers and users can adopt the human rights framework in their actions.
Throughout the chapters exercises guide users through a path of personal and group reflection, and preparation for action enabling women to use human rights as a tool for systemic analysis and for social and economic transformation.

More information:
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