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I. INTRODUCTION The official document adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 1995 is called the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for Equality, Development and Peace (PfA). The PfA is an agenda for women’s empowerment that reaffirms the fundamental principle whereby the human rights of women and the girl child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights. As an agenda for action, the platform seeks to promote and protect the full enjoyment of all human rights and the fundamental freedoms of all women throughout their life cycle. The PfA respects and values the full diversity of women’s situations and conditions and recognises that some women face particular barriers to their empowerment. The PfA recognises that broad-based and sustained economic growth in the context of sustainable development is necessary to sustain social development and social justice. A thorough review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action has been carried out twice: at the 23rd Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2000 (Beijing + 5) and at the 49 th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2005 (Beijing + 10). The review and appraisal by the CSW in 2005 identified achievements, gaps and challenges and provided an indication of areas where further actions and initiatives were most urgently needed. Following the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the Madrid European Council (December 1995) requested an annual review of the implementation in the Member States of the Beijing Platform for Action. Since 1999, sets of quantitative and qualitative indicators have been developed by subsequent Presidencies in 9 of the 12 critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action. In 2010, at its 54 th Session, the Commission on the Status of Women will review the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the 23 rd Special Session of the General Assembly and its contribution to shaping a gender perspective towards the full realisation of the Millennium Development Goals. 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 6 ANNEX DG G EN
The present report Beijing + 15: The Platform for Action and the European Union is the third review of development at the EU-level in relation to the 12 critical areas of concern of the PfA, building on the follow-up by the EU in 2000 and on the report from the Luxembourg Presidency in 2005. The report is based on the Council Conclusions on the follow-up of the Beijing PfA since 2005 and on information provided by the Member States in their answers to the UNECE questionnaire sent out in January 2009. Furthermore, Statistics Sweden has updated the statistics in some of the critical areas for this report. The report is divided into six sections. After the introduction (Part I), there is a description of the development of gender mechanisms at institutional level within the European Union. (Part II). In Part III the report describes the development of institutional gender mechanisms in the Member States as well as the development of indicators in this particular critical area of concern (H). Part IV analyses developments within the Member States in respect of the eleven critical areas of concern. In Part V, more general comments on the development concerning the twelve areas of concern are presented. In the last section (Part VI) the challenges of implementing and following up the development at EU level within the twelve critical areas of concern in the Beijing PfA are presented. This report has been realised under the supervision of the Ministry for Integration and Gender Equality in Sweden and Director Marianne Laxén has been responsible for its compilation. The following researchers have contributed to Parts III, IV and V: Maria Eriksson PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology at Uppsala University, Lenita Freidenvall PhD, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Annica Kronsell PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at Lund University, Anita Nyberg Professor, Centre for Gender Studies at Stockholm University, Malin Rönnblom PhD, Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at Umeå University and Barbro Wijma, Professor, Division of Gender and Medicine at Linköping University. The report has been circulated to the Member States for comment. 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 7 ANNEX DG G EN
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Table of Contents
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Page 13 and 14: The proposal to amend the Directive
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Page 17 and 18: Integration of gender issues in the
Page 19 and 20: - Childcare facilities: possibility
Page 21 and 22: Key findings from the second report
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Page 27 and 28: With regard to financing, in additi
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4.2 Education and Training of Women
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All EU MS show a pattern in which m
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Some women with low education may f
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overall. Today girls and women have
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Indicator1: measures the number of
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Latvia had the greatest proportion
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4.4 Violence against women (D) 4.4.
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This was one of the conclusions dra
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Some of the measures that have been
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The reporting to the UNECE shows th
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4. 5. Women and armed conflict (E)
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4.5.3. Trends emerging from EU-wide
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men. As a result this ‘new’ ins
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To date, 10 of the 27 MS have devel
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• Indicator 4. Comprehensive and
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The data is uncertain and, at least
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It should be emphasised that the hi
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In most countries single mothers' t
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Unemployment has been falling in mo
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The main political measures taken c
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• Indicator 7. Proportion of the
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Indicator 1: Women's access to poli
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parliaments (76 % men, 24 % women).
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Indicator 12: Out of 108 senior eco
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The Member States advance various r
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The Belgian quota law adopted in 20
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References Council Conclusions Nove
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4.9.3. The CEDAW The Convention on
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Member States report on increased p
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4.10.3. EU policy on eliminating ge
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In Spain, a specific institute (Obs
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Women remain absent from leadership
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• L.1. Eliminate all forms of dis
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highest in Estonia with 90 %. The m
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In relation to the indicators adopt
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When the Council of the European Un
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EU commitments to achieve the objec
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5.10. Women and the Media (J) The m
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6.3. Challenges for the future Euro
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The main challenges in the area of
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Annex I Indicators developed at EU
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IT Italy LV Latvia LT Lithuania LU
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Annex III Table 3.1 Personnel resou
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Figure 4.2.1 Employment gap between
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Figure 4.2.5 Proportion of female a
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Figure 4.3.1 Number of years with g
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Figure 4.3.3 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.3.5 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.3.7 Proportions of women a
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Figure 4.6.1 Employed women and men
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Figure 4.6.5 Proportion of children
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Figure 4.6.9 Time spent on domestic
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Figure 4.6.13 Time spent on domesti
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Table 4.7.1 The cluster of Member S
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Figure 4.12.1 Difference between pr
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Figure 4.12.3 Difference between pr
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Table 4.12.2 Difference between 15-
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