UN CSW 54: inequalities between young women and young men.

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UN Commission on the Status of Women's (CSW) 54th session:
bringing solutions to inequalities
between young women and young men?

 

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the European Youth Forum (YFJ) highlights its concern regarding the weak political declaration adopted on March 2nd as an outcome of the UN Commission on the Status of Women's (CSW) 54th session in New York. The session is examining the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, 15 years after it was adopted.

 

“The outcome document of the CSW's 54th session fails to strengthen the commitments undertaken in Beijing. The fact that effective implementation is still not achieved in key areas of life for young women, such as education and training and sexual and reproductive health and rights, will certainly not be contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals”, said Tine Radinja, President of the European Youth Forum.

 

The YFJ calls for a more integrated approach among EU Policies in the areas of education, youth, health, non-discrimination and equality in the follow-up of the EU Roadmap for equality between women and men, and for the effective implementation of existing instruments at the Council of Europe level, so as to achieve the objectives agreed upon in Beijing in 1995.

 

Although some effective indicators have been established at the EU level, a real need still exists to develop further the Beijing indicators related to education and training for both women and men, including those on Non-Formal Education and Sex Education.

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