by Karen Castellon, AWC Berlin
UN Geneva Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations RoomThe 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council opens on Monday, February 24, 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Council’s main page provides an overview of the next four weeks of meetings. The kickoff on Monday is the “High Level Segment,” in which key representatives of governments are present.
You can follow all the Human Rights Council action on United Nations web television and on the daily Order of the Day calendar.
Of interest on Day 2 – Tuesday, February 25 – is a high level panel on the 25th anniversary of the Beijing conference. Here is an excerpt from a United Nations press release:
“In 1995, by the report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, governments adopted a 38-paragraph declaration and the 129-page Beijing Platform for Action. The Platform identifies 12 “critical areas of concern”: poverty, education and training, health, violence, armed conflict, economy, power and decision-making, institutional mechanisms, human rights, media, environment, and the girl child.
The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has conducted periodic reviews of the Platform’s implementation, in 2000, 2005 and 2010, and will hold a 25-year review and appraisal in March 2020 at CSW64/ Beijing+25.”