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Short Summary |
Despite policy gains at Beijing, and despite
a decade-worth of efforts to use the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA)
to achieve legal and policy changes to protect and advance women's
rights at the national level, many women in all regions of the world
are actually worse off than they were 10 years ago. The fifth global
monitoring report by WEDO assesses governments' progress in implementing
the commitments they made at the United Nations Fourth World Conference
on Women (FWCW) in Beijing, 1995. It brings together the diverse voices
of women in over 150 countries in sub regions across Africa, Asia
and the Pacific, Europe and North America, Latin America and the Caribbean
and West Asia to influence the United Nations 10 Year Review of the
BPfA. The sub regional reports reveal that a combination of global
trends - the predominance of the neo-liberal economic framework, growing
militarisation and rising fundamentalism, both secular and religious
- have created an environment that is increasingly hostile to the
advancement of women's human rights. Operating within this difficult
climate, which constrains available resources and narrows public perceptions
about acceptable roles for women, few governments have mobilised the
political will or leadership at the highest levels to comprehensively
carry out the commitments made to women at Beijing. This inaction
in the face of such intense opposition to women's rights, underscores
the conclusion of this global report - that governments have betrayed
the promises they made in Beijing. |
http://www.wedo.org/library.aspx?ResourceID=31
