UN Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action, 27 September, 2015

Yesterday at the United Nations headquarters, heads of member states came together to express their commitments to the accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, of CEDAW, and achievement of gender equality within the timeframe of the…

Videos of WIDE+ Public Panel on the Women’s Human Rights paradigm

On 17 and 18 June 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, WIDE+ organized meetings that reflected on the current challenges facing the implementation of the women’s human rights paradigm as formulated in the BPfA. In the Public Panel, on 17 June, key…

UK: Turning promises into progress for Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Rights

GADN UK: The Beijing Conference on Women marked an important moment in the struggle for gender equality and the rights of women and girls but, twenty years on, what’s changed? For a start, gender is now firmly on the agenda…