UN announces a significant Global Conference on Women to be organized in 2015. This conference will be organized 20 years after the landmark meeting took place in Beijing in 1995.
The proposal is jointly made by Secretary-General Ban Ki moon and the President of the General Assembly Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al- Nasser of Qatar. Moreover, the proposal will go before the 193-member General Assembly for final approval. The U.N.’s highest policy-making body has been asked to take significant steps to formalize the logistics of the conference, during its current session which concludes mid-September.
This announcement coincided with International Women’s Day which was being commemorated throughout the world on March 8. This will be the fifth major international conference emphasizing mainly on women. The last one, the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, adopted a Platform of Action which is still in the process of being implemented.
The proposed 2015 conference follows in the footsteps of the upcoming international conference on sustainable development, also called Rio Plus-20, which will be organized in June in Brazil: 20 years after the Earth Summit in Rio in June 1992.
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