THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENTS IN ENFORCING GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS, 15 YEARS AFTER BEIJING New York, 2 March 2010
	Parliamentary event organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women on the occasion of the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women

	During the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), whose priority theme this year is the 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000), and the links with achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (UNDAW) organized a parliamentary event entitled The Role of Parliaments in enforcing gender equality and women’s rights, 15 years after Beijing. The meeting took place on Tuesday, 2 March, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the new ECOSOC chamber at the UN Headquarters in New York. The meeting discussed achievements made at the national level in terms of women’s rights, fifteen years after the Fourth World Conference in Beijing. It focussed in particular on how parliaments have supported change at the national level and what parliamentary mechanisms have been used and can be used to pursue enforcement of commitments made at Beijing. In so doing, the meeting provided an opportunity to contribute to the debates at the CSW.

SESSION DOCUMENTS
	Report [PDF]
	Statement by Senator Pia Cayetano [PDF]
	List of participants [PDF]
	Invitation [PDF]
	Reminder Letter [PDF]
	Annotated agenda [PDF]
	Information Note [PDF]
	Registration form [PDF]
	Poster of the side event [PDF, 676 Kb]
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