About EqualiTy Now
Women's Action Network
Equality Now Campaigns
Women's Action NetworkCampaign Against FGMCampaign Against
Sex Tourism/TraffickingProtocol on the Rightsof Women in AfricaUnited NationsThe LAW ProjectWomen,
Peace and SecurityAdolescent
Girls' LegalDefense
FundBeijing +15 CampaignJoin
the Women's Action NetworkSupport Equality NowMembership ProfileGuide to ActivismInternships/EmploymentPress Room
Events
Merchandise
Contact Equality Now
Join us on Facebook
Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing +15 Review Process
At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, governments pledged to repeal all discriminatory laws. In June 2000, a Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly reviewed implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and governments pledged to review domestic legislation “with a view to striving to remove discriminatory provisions as soon as possible, preferably by 2005…” The 2005 deadline was not met and laws that explicitly discriminate against women remain in force in many countries.
 Tony award-winning Sarah Jones performs Women Can't Wait! Watch the performance here (Real Media file). |
||
TAKE ACTION! Sign our petition calling for the repeal of discriminatory laws
To highlight the gap between women’s realities in countries around the world and the commitments made by governments ten years ago, Equality Now has issued Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing +15 Review Process, an updated version of the Beijing +5 report published by Equality Now in 1999 in preparation for the 2000 Special Session of the General Assembly and the Beijing +10 report, published in 2004 in anticipation of the 10th anniversary of Beijing. The report highlights a representative sampling of discriminatory laws in countries around the world and calls on their governments to rescind these laws in accordance with the commitment made in the Beijing Platform for Action.
See the interactive map or summary of laws for an overview of the laws highlighted in the report. For a synopsis of Equality Now's Beijing +15 report, see Unequal Under the Law.
Equality Now is calling for the creation of a United Nations Special Mechanism on equality before the law, and has convened a coalition of non-governmental organizations around the world to support this initiative.
Equality Now's statement to the United Nations' 2010 Annual ministerial review (PDF, 31K) continued to call for the creation of a special mechanism on equality before the law to facilitate the repeal of sex discriminatory laws as a concrete step towards fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals.
See the media coverage on this campaign.
To see older versions of Words and Deeds:
Beijing +5 report
Beijing +10 report (PDF, 196K)
|
Women and
girls around the world need your help.
|
|