Southern Africa position paper on Beijing Platform for Action

Fifteen year review

Fifteen years later after signing of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Southern Africa NGO caucus is disappointed that not much progress has been made in meeting commitments made. We are also greatly concerned that there is going to be no Outcome Document but a mere Declaration from governments at the 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women which is focusing on the BPFA fifteenth review. The Declaration is weak and lacks real reflection of what governments have achieved so far. It reads like a veiled admission by governments that there is not much to report. With only five years to go before the lapse of the Millennium Development Goals set for 2015 it seems unlike that the set targets will be achieved.

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