Where are the Girls and Women with Disabilities: An Analysis of the Country Reports Submitted to the Commission on the Status of Women 59

March 8 2015

By: Handicap International – Making it Work, Syracuse University College of Law Disability and Policy Program, and Women Enabled International

Beijing+20 is a process to assess how far Member States and other stakeholders have come in implementing the commitments made at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995. Since 1995, the Commission on the Status of Women has played a central role in monitoring, reviewing and appraising progress achieved and problems encountered in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – the most comprehensive global policy framework to achieve the goals of gender equality, development and peace — which world leaders have committed to in 12 critical areas of concern. This review is taking place at the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women and will be held in March 2015. The United Nations Economic and Social Council called upon all States to undertake comprehensive national-level reviews of the progress made and challenges encountered in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform For Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.