2010 marks the 15th anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women. Marking this anniversary, the 54 UN Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) will convene March 1- 12 2010 in New York to consider implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA).

Women's movements and NGOs around the world will be gathering prior to the UN meeting in a global NGO forum for women. See below a list of key events:


2010 NGO global forum for women: Beijing +15

The Forum will take place on February 27 & 28, 2010. This Forum immediately precedes the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, which will also undertake a 15–year review and appraisal of the BPfA. See more including list of events.


"Feminisms at the Crossroads - March 5, 2010 (2:00PM-Salvation Army Auditorium)
DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES WITH WOMEN FOR A NEW ERA (DAWN)
The first decade of the 21st century has been marked so far by unprecedented global crises. Historically accumulated as well as externally generated crises in its varied forms and fierce inten-sities have come to affect not only developing countries but now also developed countries. As the international community strug-gles to find ways of managing the multiple risks associated with these crises, DAWN members interrogate how gender justice, economic justice, rights, and democracy are being taken into ac-count, defined, and positioned in the resolutions to crises in all their complexities. Each speaker will argue that inter-governmental commitments to women’s rights and gender equality are in dire predicament as these are challenged, minimalized and tolerated, or completely compromised in ongoing inter-governmental proc-esses. Ways forward will be discussed. See complete list here.

Social Watch launches 2009 Gender Equity Index and paper "Putting gender economics at the forefront"
This paper will be launched during the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW-March 1st-12th, 2010), and on the commemoration of Beijing +15 on Tuesday 9 March at Conference Room C (TNLB) from 3.00 - 4.30 in the North lawn of the UN. Social Watch is also organizing is a delegation of women watchers from the regions to participate in the CSW. Their focus will be to raise issues of the financial crisis and their effect on women and girls across the world as well as the need for a new development paradigm that goes beyond the Beijing Platform of Action.
To this end Social Watch is organizing a workshop entitled: Eyes on Gender Regional Perspectives on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on March 2nd in the Church Center (across from the UN), 11th floor from 2pm to 3:30pm. Social Watch also submitted a formal written statement through its host organization the Third World Institute. The statement can be found here(pdf).

Beijing +15: achievements, challenges and the road ahead
AWID
The Association for Women Rights in Development (AWID) has launched an on-line discussion forum to explore the achievements and challenges in advancing women rights and gender equality since Beijing.
Register to participate.