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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Laura Hildebrandt</b> <span dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:laura.hildebrandt@undp.org">laura.hildebrandt@undp.org</a></span><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">International Women’s Day and UNDP at the Commission on the Status of Women – Beijing + 15</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The gender-specific implications of climate change, the economy, HIV/AIDS, and post-conflict recovery were the subjects of panel discussions hosted by UNDP and partners during the first week of the 54<sup>th</sup> Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The 2010 CSW, which continues through March 12, is focused this year on a 15-year review since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were adopted at the landmark Fourth United Nations World Conference for Women in Beijing in 1995. UNDP also co-hosted a dialogue on achieving gender equality (MDG3) and how that is vitally linked to achieving the Beijing Platform for Action. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Plenary sessions throughout the week were devoted to reviewing progress since Beijing and reports from Members States on achievements in gender equality and areas of challenge.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“We can be proud but not complacent,” said Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at the Plenary’s International Women’s Day Observance, held on March 3. The Secretary-General noted the prevalence of violence against women and also urged the General Assembly to adopt a resolution as soon as possible to commit to create the proposed UN gender entity. The press release on the <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=4414" target="_blank">SG’s statement</a> is available at: <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33954&Cr=gender+equality&Cr1" target="_blank">http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33954&Cr=gender+equality&Cr1</a>= <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Other speakers included Norway’s Minister for Gender Equality and Children’s Affairs (notably a man), who said there is no gender equality as long as violence against women exists; a Canadian high school student and Chinese immigrant who said that gender equality will not be eliminated as long as the preference for sons over daughters exists; and the president of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">On Thursday, representatives of the UN’s five regional commissions presented r<font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">egional perspectives in progress achieved and remaining gaps and challenges in the implementation of the Beijing Platform.<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></b></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></font></b><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">They each<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></b>reported that much progress has been made in a number of areas including girls’ education and women’s political participation. Nevertheless, the representative of Asia and the Pacific noted that maternal death is still extremely high in the region. The representative for Europe pointed to the inadequate availability of sex-disaggregated statistics and proposed to work more on policy dimensions of increasing men’s involvement in care and house work. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The representative for Latin America and the Caribbean noted that if things progress at the current pace it will take 40 more years before the region can achieve gender parity in political participation. The representative was also concerned with the existing gender wage gap where a well-educated woman earns much less than non-educated man.</span></font><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">At statements throughout the week, delegations of many countries expressed support for the UN’s proposed new gender entity, with several urging that it be finalized and operational as soon as possible.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></font></b><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Beijing</span></font></b><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Platform + CEDAW + MDGs = Progress on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The panel discussion,<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Take Action Now: The Pathway from Beijing to 2015</span></b> underscored that the Beijing Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination and the MDGS are mutually reinforcing. High-level representatives of the governments of Egypt and Denmark and representatives of Cambodia, Burkina Faso and Zambia spoke about specific actions taken in their countries to achieve MDG 3.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Denmark</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">, a champion for MDG3, emphasized the need to focus on a wide range of financial resources (e.g. ODA, domestic resource mobilization and remittances) to achieve the MDGs by 2015. Egypt reported building capacity on gender-responsive planning and budgeting, and Cambodia recounted progress in integrating gender equality in national policy and planning frameworks. There was particular interest in UNDP Burkina Faso’s presentation on how <font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">multifunctional platforms have supplied energy to reduce the time required for labour intensive tasks and enabled women to shift to income-generating activities. </span></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Recommendations for action included establishing powerful mechanisms for supporting work on gender equality at the national level; providing incentives for promoting gender equality, such as through the gender seal for private companies in Latin America; and engaging a wide range of stakeholders, including government, UN agencies, NGOs, academia and the private sector, to achieve the MDGs. The role of men champions was also highlighted, as well as the importance of having women leaders in strategic positions such as ministries of finance, planning and labour.<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></font></b><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Putting gender into HIV/AIDS response and HIV/AIDS into gender plans</span></font></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Singer/activist Annie Lennox, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and UN Deputy Secretary-General Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro were among the panelists who helped launch an <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://www.unaids.org/en/" target="_blank">Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (2010-2014).</a></span></b> Panelists and participants welcomed the plan, which was developed to address gender inequalities and human rights violations that continue to put women and girls at risk of HIV infection. Panelists urged all sectors of society to work together to help countries implement the plan, which was described as a “long overdue” gender-centric approach to HIV/AIDS.</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">No more pilots, it’s time for action,” said Clark, agreeing with several ministers who urged immediate implementation of the plan in all countries. “Governments, <font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">international, multilateral and civil society organizations need to integrate gender issues into the HIV programmes - and to integrate HIV issues into gender programmes,” Clark said. “These are fundamental matters that cannot be dealt with separately."</span></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Annie Lenox recounted how she became an activist on HIV awareness after an invitation from former South African President Nelson Mandela to engage artists. “He said that the HIV pandemic is a genocide. And it is. Music, film, writing...all of these are creative ways to help transform HIV into something from the past."</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe, moderating the panel, was one of several people on the panel and in the audience who noted the critical importance of addressing violence against women, both in preventing and responding to HIV/AIDS.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></font></b><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Gender Equality Key to Climate Change Response</span></font></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The importance of considering gender implications in the response to climate change was the focus of the panel discussion, <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Gender Equality and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for the MDGs</span></b>, which drew a crowd of over 140 people. <font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">Winnie Byanyima</span></font><font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">,</span></font> Dir<font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">ector of the UNDP Gender Te</span></font>am, emphasized the growing opportunity of a new climate deal for financing adaptation and development, but cautioned that little attention has been given so far to addressing how climate change financial resources can reach the poorest women and men equitably. A representative from the Finnish Council for Gender Equality said that Finland will continue to support the participation of women in the global climate change negotiations in recognition of the important voice they bring to the table, as environmental stewards in many regions of the world where they are responsible for the majority of food production and in meeting household energy needs.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Panelists agreed that sustained investments are needed in building the capacities of negotiators to understand the linkages between gender and climate change. Melanne Verveer, the US Ambassador at Large for Global Women's Issues, said that the United States recognizes that women are critical to addressing climate change and that the U.S. will work to ensure that women's potential "is tapped to address this critical challenge." The representative from the Mexican government emphasized the importance of reaching a new climate agreement at the next COP meeting to be held in Cancun, Mexico in November 2010. There was general agreement among the panelists that the debate could be further strengthened if women's organizations were more focused on climate change as a development issue and, at the same time, if more environmental groups were to focus on the role of women's rights and gender issues.</span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #003366; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Women Must Be Involved and Funded in Post-Crisis Responses</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“Women are not heard, not respected and not funded,” said Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, at the UNDP/UNIFEM panel discussion, <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Price of Peace: Financing Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction</span></b>. Robinson called for a requirement that 30 percent of negotiators in all peace processes be women for the UN to be involved.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Moderating the panel, UNDP Gender Team Director Winnie Byanyima cited a UNIFEM study indicating that in 10 major peace processes in the past decade, women were on average six percent of negotiators. Forthcoming research by UNDP indicates that no rules have been established to integrate gender equality into post-conflict funds.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Ingrid Fiskaa, Norwegian State Secretary for International Development, said large funds must address women’s needs. “Women will not settle for a gender window – they want a door for full access to resources,” she said.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Panelists also agreed solutions should include: earmarking funds for women’s needs in recovery and reconstruction; including gender expertise in all assessment missions; and making women’s economic empowerment a top priority in the aftermath of all crises, including the recent earthquake in Haiti.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></font></b><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Voices of Haitian Women</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The earthquake in Haiti has left the impoverished country’s women even more vulnerable to sexual violence, sexually-transmitted diseases, poverty, disability and illness, Haiti Minister of Women’s Affairs Marjorie Michel said Wednesday at a panel, “Voices of Haitian Women,” organized by UNIFEM, UNDP and the </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Huairou Commission<font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">. </span></font>Haitian Ambassador to the UN Leo Merores and Haitian activists from local organizations were also present.<font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black"></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Michel said that the difficult situation of the country’s women has been exacerbated by the fact that many prominent women’s advocates and feminists died in the earthquake. She stressed the need to integrate women into all reconstruction efforts. “Reconstruction depends on solidarity for Haiti and equality between all humans and equality between women and men,” she said.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Other panelists echoed her concerns about violence against women and cited the need for such things as creating income-generating projects for women; capacity building for single parents, given the large number of women-headed households; and ensuring that women have safe housing. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span></font></b><b><font color="#cc0000" size="2" face="Arial bold"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial bold'; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Vision for a Better World: From Economic Crisis to Equality</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The economic crisis’ impact on women and the opportunities it provides to rebuild global and national economies to make them more inclusive was the focus of the panel discussion, <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Vision for a Better World: From Economic Crisis to Equality</span></b>, sponsored by UNDP, IDRC and the Governments of Canada and Nicaragua.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“The capitalist system has failed us,” said Nicaragua’s Minister of Interior, Ana Isabel Morales, adding that the Nicaragua may not achieve the MDGs but that Nicaragua has achieved a lot in empowering women at a decision-making level. <font color="black"><span style="COLOR: black">Suzanne Clément, coordinator/head of agency Status of Women Canada, said the economic crisis has had a greater impact on women and that male needs have been prioritized over the needs of women and children.</span></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Three speakers from the Casablanca Dream, a group of women thinkers and activists, spoke about how the current economic system has failed “women, minorities and the poor in general.” They pointed to the need to transfer economic power from North to South and said that requirements for economic development include growth that “bubbles up” rather than “trickles down,” socially useful banking and finance, and support for equitable property rights. <a href="http://mediaglobal.org/article/2010-03-04/economic-crisis-now-seen-as-opportunity-for-gender-equality" target="_blank">Click here for a full article on this event from Media global</a></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="4" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"> </span></font><strong><b><font color="#333333" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Additional Resources</span></font></b></strong><font color="#333333" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">:<br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://www.undp.org/publications/CSW54-sideevents2010.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#336699"><span style="COLOR: #336699">UNDP side events during the Commission on the Status of Women</span></font></a> [PDF]<br>
<a href="http://www.undp.org/publications/fast-facts/CSWKeyFactsFinal.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#336699"><span style="COLOR: #336699">UNDP Fast Facts on Progress since the Beijing Conference</span></font></a> [PDF]<br>
<a href="http://www.undp.org/publications/fast-facts/CSWkeymessagesfinal.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#336699"><span style="COLOR: #336699">UNDP’s messages for the Commission on the Status of Women 2010</span></font></a> [PDF] </span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="4" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">For more Information on the CSW</span></font></p>
<h1><b><font color="#4891dc" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) </span></font></b></h1>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/documentation.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Documentation</span></font></a></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/statements.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Opening Statements</span></font></a></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/high-level_plenary.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">High-level Plenary</span></font></a> </span></font></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/docs/Prov_List_of_Speakers_for_Fri_5_March_and_Mon_8_Mar.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Provisional list of speakers</span></font></a></span></font></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/ievents.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">High-level roundtables and Interactive events</span></font></a></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/outcomes.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Outcomes</span></font></a></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/participation.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Participation</span></font></a> </span></font></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/participation.html#ngo" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">NGO participation</span></font></a></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/participation.html#media" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Media accreditation</span></font></a></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/participation.html#press" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Press centre</span></font></a></span></font></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/parallel.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1c6bff"><span style="COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Parallel events</span></font></a></span></font></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/commemoration.html" target="_blank"><strong><b><font color="#1c6bff" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Commemoration of the 15th anniversary by the General Assembly</span></font></b></strong></a></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/related.html" target="_blank"><strong><b><font color="#1c6bff" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Related intergovernmental processes</span></font></b></strong></a></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing15/other.html" target="_blank"><strong><b><font color="#1c6bff" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #1c6bff; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Other commemorative initiatives in the UN</span></font></b></strong></a></span></font></li>
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