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CSW 59 Recognizes No Country Has Achieved Gender Equality

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CSW 59 Recognizes No Country Has Achieved Gender Equality

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The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 59) has opened its 59th Session, which will review progress in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 20 years after its adoption. The opening session included the launch of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's global review of progress on gender equality, which finds that no country has achieved gender equality. CSW 59 also unanimously adopted a Political Declaration (E/CN.6/2015/L.1) marking the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.

The session is taking place from 9-20 March 2015, at UN Headquarters in New York, US.

“As women thrive, so will we all. If girls are held back, the whole world feels the pain,” Ban said in his opening remarks. He observed that women suffer disproportionately from climate change impacts, economic crises and displacement caused by conflicts and recommended translating “outrage [on violence against women and girls] into aid, services, support and justice,” shattering discrimination barriers and expanding women's opportunities in business and politics.

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The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 59) has opened its 59th Session, which will review progress in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 20 years after its adoption. The opening session included the launch of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's global review of progress on gender equality, which finds that no country has achieved gender equality. CSW 59 also unanimously adopted a Political Declaration (E/CN.6/2015/L.1) marking the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.

The session is taking place from 9-20 March 2015, at UN Headquarters in New York, US.

“As women thrive, so will we all. If girls are held back, the whole world feels the pain,” Ban said in his opening remarks. He observed that women suffer disproportionately from climate change impacts, economic crises and displacement caused by conflicts and recommended translating “outrage [on violence against women and girls] into aid, services, support and justice,” shattering discrimination barriers and expanding women's opportunities in business and politics.

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