The global challenge to end poverty and injustice : Défi mondial d'éliminer la pauvreté et l'injustice : un programme canadien en 10 points

Review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the Special Session of the General Assembly entitled, Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century: Report of the Secretary General, E/CN.6/2005/2. [...] Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, which protects the rights of women and girls, As the United Nations system attempts to respond to and commits to ensuring gender perspectives in planning international challenges to ensure relevance and effectiveness, and initiatives and women’s participation in decision-making. [...] Through the international conferences of the 1990s and the growing A striking legacy of the 20th century is the dynamism of the support for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of women’s movement. [...] Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 24 and 28 recognize the right of the child to health and education along similar lines as the Universal Declaration and the ICESCR. [...] They work with regional networks in Asia, Africa and Latin America to build strong national coalitions in the South, strengthen the advocacy capacity of civil society and lobby governments and the international community to do what is needed to achieve “education for all.” In so doing, the campaign has raised the profile of education on the international policy agenda and brought coherence to the