Report / White Paper

Australia is continuing to make significant progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action across all government jurisdictions. Five key achievements in progressing gender equality in
recent years are explored in this section:

A one-day national consultation was held on 24 July 2014 in Port Moresby led by the Office of
the Development of Women, Department for Community Development and Religion, with
technical assistance from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment

The one day national consultation to feed into the national report for the Beijing +20 occurred on
Wednesday 8th of May 2014 from 8am until 4.30pm at the Le Lagoon Warwick Hotels led by the
Department of Women’s Affairs with technical and financial assistance from the United Nations

The women’s movement which gained impetus during the 1980s, ratification of CEDAW in 1986,
establishment of the General Directorate on the Status of Women (GDSW) as a national mechanism in

The Timor-Leste Government is committed to improving and enriching the lives of women to
enable them to participate equally in all aspects of life. This is Timor-Leste’s first report and
Timor-Leste has made significant progress in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration

What are the country’s three to five major achievements in the promotion of gender equality and
the empowerment of women since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
and the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly?

Samoa shares with its Pacific island neighbors a vulnerability to natural and economic shocks,
as well as challenges of social transformation. Over the past several decades Samoa has
weathered these storms, progressively strengthening essential service delivery while improving

2015 is a milestone year in the development arena; it was even dubbed as the international year of
evaluation. It will be the time when countries have to assess and evaluate themselves on the progress in

In 2015, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will carry out a review and appraisal of
the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World