Almost 20 years ago, in September 1995, thousands of people gathered in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. From the conference, 189 countries adopted a landmark roadmap “The Beijing Platform for Action”, which was considered as a major achievement to advancing women’s rights and to put women’s rights and gender equality on governments agenda. Ahead of the commemoration of the 20thanniversary of the Beijing conference, UN WOMEN launched a major campaign in 2014 around the world to raise awareness on the challenges that remain for achieving gender equality. African women’s rights organisations and activists gathered in Addis-Ababa,Ethiopia from 14-16th

November 2014 to raise awareness on the challenges that remain for achieving gender equality and to lobby and push African governments to uphold National and International Law and policies to make gender equality a reality.

African Women's Decade: 2014 Annual Review

Извор: WUNRN – 05.02.2015