Summary
Background. Advancing women's rights: the work of the secretariat. Key gender and human rights issues for action in the POA. Conclusion.
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Gender and Human Rights in the Commonwealth: Critical Issues for Action in the Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015
Background 1. The Gender Section of the Social Transformation Programmes Division (STPD), Commonwealth Secretariat, assists Commonwealth Ministers Responsible for Women's Affairs to advance gender equality through the realisation of women's rights and the promotion of gender justice. A new Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015 was agreed at the 7th Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting (7WAMM) in Fiji Islands in May-June 2004. It positions the Commonwealth at the centre of global agenda setting on gender equality, as the only intergovernmental organisa...
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