The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development closed its annual session on July 8, 2015, with the adoption of a declaration that committed ministers from around the world to establishing a ‘strong, universal, ambitious, inclusive and people-centered’ post-2015 development agenda that completes the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals and responds to new challenges…. Read more »
The 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women convened during March 2015, Women’s Month, to review and appraise the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action which was signed by 189 nations at the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. It also considered the outcome documents of the… Read more »
Thousands of women gathered in New York March 2-20, 2015 for the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Having as theme “Beijing + 20,” the session had as its main focus the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, both the progress achieved and the challenges that remain.