Women's Rights and Gender Equality
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This Programme area involves lobbying for the East African Declaration on Gender Equality (EADGE) (bringing together all legally binding international commitments to gender equality including but not limited to the Beijing Platform for Action, CEDAW, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa and the Millennium Development Goals) into one regional Instrument, through research and analysis, lobbying and advocacy, and empowerment of women. |
CSW Beijing Plus Fifteen Review Conference
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A Society where all enjoy gender equality, Social Justice and Development
To facilitate follow-up of the Beijing and African Platform for Action in order to enhance the advancement of women and social justice
Plot 87 Bukoto-Ntinda Road,
P.O.BOX 24965 ,Kampala, Uganda
Tel: + 256-41-285163/285194
Fax: +256-41-285306
Email:eassi@eassi.org or eassi.eassi@gmail.com
From 1-12 March 2010, government officials and representatives of civil
society, the media and the private sector will meet at UN Headquarters
in New York during the 54th session of the Commission on the
Status of Women, to assess what has been achieved since the
Beijing Conference, share experiences and good practices and discuss
priority actions to deal with persistent obstacles and new challenges.