Subject: [fem-women2000 277] 6/1 発表：米国 Beijing+5 通信簿
From: "Leslie Wright" <lesliewright@dellnet.com> (by way of lalamaziwa)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 23:23:43 +0900
Seq: 277
>From: "Leslie Wright" <lesliewright@dellnet.com>
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 04:06:35 -0400
>Subject: [ngo-csw-ny] Report card for the USA -- Beijing+5
For a copy of the actual report card, please email Suzanne Kindervatter directly. Thanks.
We wanted you to have this info. before next week. We'll be doing a press
conf. at the UN on Tues. or Wed. and have done a large press mailing on
this. See you soon. And thanks for all the good work you and your team
have been doing.
May 25, 2000/FOR RELEASE JUNE 1
Contact: Suzanne Kindervatter (202) 667-8227, x135
In New York (June 5-9): (212) 758-1234
<<USWC Report Card.doc>>
Women Issue Report Card Assessing US Government Performance
for UN Five Year Review of World Women's Conference
WASHINGTON -- To mark the five year review of the Fourth World Conference on
Women, US Women Connect is issuing a report card grading the US government
on progress in implementing a comprehensive Platform for Action for women's
and girls' empowerment. The review will be held in New York at the UN June
5-9.
US Women Connect (USWC), a network of national and grassroots women and
girls, will join thousands of representatives of governments and NGOs from
around the world at the UN General Assembly Special Session, known as "Women
2000" or "Beijing +5." In 1995, 189 governments signed the Platform for
Action at the Beijing Conference, making commitments for action in "twelve
critical areas of concern." US Women Connect (USWC) has promoted Platform
implementation in the United States since 1996. At the June UN Special
Session, governments will present reports on how they have implemented the
Platform in their respective countries. NGOs also have prepared their
assessments of progress for many countries.
The USWC report card assesses US government performance in the twelve
Platform areas: women and poverty; education and training; health; violence
against women; armed conflict; the economy; power and decision-making;
institutional mechanisms; human rights; the media; the environment; and the
girl child. The government's grades range from an "F" for poor effort
toward alleviating poverty to a "B" and "B-minus" for strong programs to
prevent domestic violence and for the dramatic increase of women in
appointed governmental positions.
"What Beijing +5 is about is accountability. The US government has taken
follow-up to the Beijing Conference seriously, and we applaud its
accomplishments in many areas," said Suzanne Kindervatter, Chair of US Women
Connect and Director of InterAction's Commission on the Advancement of
Women. "But the five year review is just a milestone on the road to
attaining women's and girls' rights and gender equality. USWC and other NGO
coalitions will continue to act as watchdogs and as advocates--for holding
our government accountable to fulfill all the promises made in Beijing."
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Contacts for Platform for Action Issue Areas:
* POVERTY: La Doris Payne-Bell, Women Spirit/National Congress of
Neighborhood Women, 314-381-1915 & Alexandra Spieldoch, Center of Concern,
202-635-2757 ext. 135
* EDUCATION: Shari Miles, Howard University, 202-806-4557
* VIOLENCE: Olivia Puentes-Reynolds, Calif. Women's Agenda & MANA (A
Nat'l. Latina Org.), 619-469-9920
* HEALTH: Brenda Romney or Shelia Clark, Nat'l. Black Women's Health
Project, 202-543-9311
* ARMED CONFLICT: Joan Winship, Women Waging Peace, 617-520-2237
* ECONOMY: Linda Basch, National Council for Research on Women,
212-785-7335 ext.1
* POWER AND DECISION-MAKING & ENVIRONMENT: Brownie Ledbetter, Women's
Environment and Development Organization, 501-951-3293 (cell); 334-861-5049
* INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS: Suzanne Kindervatter, InterAction,
202-667-8227 ext. 135
* HUMAN RIGHTS: Kit Cosby, Baha'is of the US, 202-833-8990
* GIRLS: Alison Pflepsen, Northwestern University, 847-425-1607
*
US Women Connect, P.O. Box 33847, Wash., D.C. 20036, www.uswc.org
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