Reflecting on Our Spaces at the CSW

Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2010

By Margot Baruch & Keely Swan

As young women working in a feminist and women's human rights organization based in the global North, we attended the 54th session on the UN Commission of the Status of Women and have the following thoughts about our experiences.

In 2010, women's human rights activists around the world mark the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), a landmark document which has impacted the ways governments set policies and laws to support women's rights worldwide. The BPfA identifies twelve critical areas of concern for women's rights and is one of the most comprehensive and progressive UN documents to address the realities of women's lives.

The thousands of women's rights advocates that attended the parallel NGO forum in Beijing in 1995 played a significant role in shaping the Beijing Platform for Action. Click here to read more