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This is the report from the regional workshop held in Arusha in March 2003. The meeting tresulted in a Commitment from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda to strengthen National AIDS Councils and gender-specific programming. ...

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women in the ASEAN Region, signed in Jakarta, Indonesia, 13 June 2004...

This document includes the Declaration of the Heads of State and Government member states of the African Union and was the result of a meeting at the Third Ordinary Session of the UN Assembly in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia in July 2004. The declaration reaffirms commitment to the principles of gender equality of the constitutive Act of the African Union as well as other and other regional, continen...

The African Unio?s (AU) adoption of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa is designed to promote and ensure respect for the rights of African women. Adopted on 11 July 2003, at the second summit of the African Union in Maputo, Mozambique, the Protocol requires African governments to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women in Africa and to promote equality. The Pro...

From February 28 to March 11, 2005, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) conducted the ten-year review and appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action (Beijing + 10) and commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the First UN World Conference on Women held in Mexico in 1975. The Objective of the review was to identify achievements, gaps and challenges in implementing the Beijing Platform...