Focus on Human Rights and gender justice

Linking the MDG's with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Beijing PFA

By: Neuhold B
Produced by: UN & NGLS, 2005

This paper aims at showing the interlinkages between the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasise that the MDGs must be developed further from the perspective of human rights, poverty eradication and the empowerment of women.