From 26 February 2007 – 9 March 2007, the fifty-first meeting on the Commission of the Status of Women was held.
This meeting produced a report entitled, “Progress in mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development, implementation and evaluations of national policies and programmes, with a particular focus on the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child.”
The report analyzes the submissions by Member States in preparation for the ten year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It examines the extent to which the rights of the girl child have been mainstreamed in the policies and programs at the national level of these Member States. The report also assesses the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
To review the report, please click here and download E/CN.6/2007/9.
Compiled from: "Progress in mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development, implementation and evaluations of national policies and programmes, with a particular focus on the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child," United Nations, 2007.
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Women's Convention and Optional Protocol
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child