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Article: Empowering women: ten years after Beijing; Commission on the Status of Women reviews intentions and actions.(Point of View)
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- UN Chronicle
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- June 1, 2005
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On International Women's Day in 2003, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said: "There is no time to lose if we are to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the target date of 2015. Only by investing in the world's women can we expect to get there."
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In 1995 in Beijing, China, the Fourth World Conference on Women adopted the Platform for Action--an agenda for women's empowerment, which stands as a milestone for their advancement in the twenty-first century. The Millennium Declaration, approved at the 2000 Millennium Summit, reinforced this Platform and has focused global efforts on achieving by 2015 the eight measurable and ...