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Beijing 10 European Review

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Beijing 10 European Review

The NGO Forum to review the Beijing 10 for the UNECE Region, and the Inter-Governmental ECE preparatory meeting for the implementation of the Beijing platform for action, were held between 12 to 15 December at the Palais de Nations, Geneva. Doris Bingley represented NCW Malta in the NGO Forum and Dr Janet Mifsud, Commissioner for Gender Equality participated in the Intergovernmental preparatory meeting

The agenda consisted of a number of important issues including: 1. Women and the Economy: In the regard of employability a number of challenges were highlighted with the overall goal of achieving gender equality within a productive and high employment society. Engendering macroeconomic policies, inter alia by integrating gender equality in trade-related capacity-building programmes, is essential to enhance women’s opportunities and participation. Enhancing labour standards and decent paid income to ensure the economic independence of women and recognising paid and unpaid care-giving are also essential to the economy
There is the need to Intensify the design, implementation and promotion of family friendly policies and services. Recognising the need for integrated approach to women’s self-employment and entrepreneurship.and promoting access for women to financial, investment and trade sectors were also highlighted.

2. Social security and pensions were largely related to integrating women’s unpaid work experiences, the need for high-quality gender equality indicators, data and benchmarks and the need for gender mainstreaming. There is also the need to assess the incentives of tax and benefit systems on the employability of women.

3. Institutional mechanisms need to be ongoing to foster gender equality & gender mainstreaming as a component of good governance through sufficient resources and reinforced cooperation of relevant stakeholders.

4. Trafficking in the context of Migration: the discussion on trafficking focused on patterns and causes of national, regional or international responses and on the economic roots of trafficking. There is a need for countries to address the human rights abuses and the root causes of trafficking, including economic causes, in women and girls, in all countries and to ensure that anti-trafficking strategies have a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach.

Emerging Issues: The Beijing Platform provides a comprehensive framework for working in partnership to promote gender equality. However during the past ten years a number of new issues emerged due to technological progress, new economic thinking, social changes and geopolitical developments in the region.
There is also the need to continually work on improving methods of gender-based analysis, gender mainstreaming, monitoring change, in order to identify and address evolving patterns and trends.

At the inter governmental conference the chairperson concluded that the member states of the UNECE reaffirm the Beijing declaration and platform for action and stress the importance of strong sustained political will and commitment at national, regional and international level.
 
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