Questionnaire to Member States
on Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995)
and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third
Special Session of the General Assembly (2000)

The multi-year programme of work for the Commission on the Status of Women for 2002-2006 calls for a "Review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly" at its forty-ninth session in March 2005. To prepare for the review and appraisal, the Division for the Advancement of Women, as Secretariat to the Commission on the Status of Women, will draw on a variety of sources of information and statistics. These include the national action plans designed to implement the Platform for Action (and submitted to the Commission on the Status of Women in 1998 and 1999); reports submitted since 1995 by States parties under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; and information generated since 1995 during the review by the Commission on the Status of Women of the 12 critical areas of concern of the Platform for Action.

To complement this information, the Division for the Advancement of Women, in collaboration with the regional commissions, has prepared a questionnaire to compile information from Governments on major achievements and obstacles in implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (September 1995) and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (June 2000).

The information gathered through this questionnaire will be utilized in the review and appraisal processes at both regional and global levels. The results of this assessment will be compiled for submission to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-ninth session in March 2005. The deadline for responses from Governments to this questionnaire is 30 April 2004.

The questionnaire (in PDF format) is available in the following languages:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• English
• French
• Russian
• Spanish

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