Calling on Governments to Universally Reaffirm and Implement the Beijing Platform for Action

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NGO CSW International Planning Group

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Letter w/ signatories (sent to Permanent Missions), 22 Feb 2005

Letter w/ updated signatories, 2 March 2005

--The sign-on period ended 11 March 2005--

We, the undersigned international and national non-governmental organizations, networks, and parliamentarians from every region of the world, representing great political, social and religious diversity, underline the importance to us and to women worldwide of the ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action and the 30-year Anniversary of the First UN World Conference on Women, held in Mexico in 1975.

Noting that the objectives of the ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Outcome Document of the 23rd Special Session of the General Assembly are to identify achievements, gaps and challenges in their implementation and emphasizing the need for high-level governmental participation at the 49th Session of CSW, we urge governments gathered at the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women to:

1. Universally reaffirm the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Outcome of the 23rd UN General Assembly Special Session (Beijing +5);

2. Re-commit to immediate national level implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Outcome of Beijing + 5.

3. Recognize that the realization of the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals depends on achieving the human rights and empowerment of all women, the attainment of gender equality and full implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action;

4. Commit to incorporating these into the discussions and outcomes of the Millennium Summit at all levels.