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51st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
From February 26–March 9, 2007, the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held its 51st session. The 2007 session focused on the "elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child." IWHC and its global colleagues worked to ensure that effective actions were taken to better protect the health and rights of girls and women worldwide. Read more>>

2006 United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
From May 31–June 2, the world's governments and civil society convened at the United Nations to review the progress made since the first United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) in 2001. At the meeting, IWHC worked to reshape policies and resources to empower and protect women and girls against the pandemic. Read more>>   

IWHC addresses the UN Commission on Population and Development
From April 4–8, 2005 the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) held its 38th session in New York. The 2005 session focused on Population, Development, and HIV/AIDS, with a particular emphasis on poverty. On Monday, April 4, IWHC addressed the Commission on the HIV/AIDS epidemic's disproportionate impact on girls and women, including how gender inequalities fuel the epidemic in every region of the world. Read more>>

Beijing at 10
2005 marked the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) in Beijing, where representatives from 184 governments and 2,500 nongovernmental organizations agreed to a Platform for Action to secure women's human rights and to eliminate discrimination and violence from women's public and private lives. From February 28 - March 11, 2005, thousands of women from around the world gathered in New York to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Beijing agreement. Read more>>

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Our History at the UN. Throughout the 1990s and into this decade, a number of international conferences held under the auspices of the United Nations drew attention to the needs of women and adolescents, with a particular focus on their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Recognizing the growing strength and capacity of the international women’s movement, IWHC played a leadership role in mobilizing women and young people for participation in these conferences. This section includes information about individual conferences, including links to the outcome documents in all official UN languages. more>>

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Adopted at a UN Summit in 2000, the MDGs have become the UN’s accepted framework for measuring progress on many of the same issues addressed by the sector-specific conferences of the 1990s, including ICPD. This section includes information about how the MDGs grew out of agreements made at Cairo, and how IWHC is working to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights remain a priority within the MDG framework. more>>

Collaborations with UN and other international agencies. IWHC collaborates frequently with World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the World Bank to ensure that girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights remain central to population and health policies, and to help these agencies support full implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action at the country level. more>>