Milestones

This Section features contemporary global milestones that have been achieved to improve the status of women, human rights and peace on a global scale.  It will source background information about the achievement and provide links to relevant sources.

 

Milestones in the history of Australian Women http://www.eowa.gov.au/Information_Centres/Resource_Centre/Statistics/Milestones_Jan2011_FINAL.pdf
Fmr President of Chile to head new UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (Sept 2010) Read about the newly created UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, established on 2 July 2010 by the General Assembly Resolution

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 

In September 2000, world leaders agreed upon the Millennium Declaration, which distils the key goals and targets agreed to at international conferences and world summits during the 1990s. Drawing on the Declaration, the UN System, World Bank and OECD drew up a set of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with associated targets and indicators. By the year 2015, all 191 United Nations Member States have pledged to meet the MDGs.

 

Six years after Beijing: How are women doing today?

 A look at the statistics and indicators of women's lives around the world by country and region, from the IWTC Women's Score Book (March 2001, 16 pages). 

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

History of CEDAW

 

Beijing+10 Review Process

The tenth anniversary of the landmark United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (also called the Beijing Conference since it took place in Beijing in 1995) took place at the United Nations in New York from February 28-March 11, 2005. The tenth year review process was called Beijing + 10. 

 

MESSAGE TO "BEIJING 2005: THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION

OF THE FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN"

Beijing, 29 August 2005

Delivered by Ms. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Beijing Platform for Action (PFA)

 The Beijing PFA is the major global policy document to come out of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995.
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/index.html

The Four Global Women's Conferences 1975-1995:  

Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi and Beijing 

 

 These are the reports and international conferences paving the path to Beijing.

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/asp/user/list.asp?ParentID=40
 

HUMAN RIGHTS

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Publications

Speeches

CEDAW

The Australian Government meets UN's CEDAW Committee