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Declaration Adopted by Women’s Commission Reaffirms Beijing Texts, Stresses Need to Include Gender Perspective in Summit Review of Millennium Development Goals
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NYAMKO SABUNI, Minister for Integration and Equality of Sweden, supporting the statement made on behalf of the European Union, said the adoption of the Beijing Platform had raised the bar for Governments across the world. Thanks to it, womens rights had been better implemented in State policies. There were many reasons to be proud. However, there were several areas of concern. Women were still being forced into trafficking, prostitution and under-aged marriage. They were being beaten, mutilated and killed, and denied opportunities to be educated and to work. That was true for all continents. Why? There was no simple explanation: different ideologies provided different answers.
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DONATAS JANKAUSKAS, Minister of Social Security and Labour, Lithuania, said progress had been made in all 12 areas of the Beijing Platform, but more efforts were needed in some areas to close the gender gap. Gender equality was not just a women …
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