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World Summit Follow-up

  • The Center for Women's Global Leadership joins over 40 human rights organizations in demanding a credible United Nations Human Rights Council, click here to see joint letter.
  • United Nations 2005 World Summit Outcomes: Gains on Gender Equality, Mixed Results on Poverty, Peace, and Human Rights (Word, PDF), prepared by Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Family Care International, United Methodist UN Office, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).
  • Documento Final de la Cumbre Mundial 2005 de Naciones Unidas: Resultados beneficiosos en relación a Igualdad de Género, Resultados Mixtos en relación a Pobreza, Paz, y Derechos Humanos (Word, PDF), prepared by Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Family Care International, United Methodist UN Office, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).

2005 World Summit
 September 14 - 16, 2005

CWGL Activities

  • Letter to Kofi Annan urging him to publicly support the human rights of women and girls and strengthen language on civil society participation in the Outcome Document for the World Summit (September 1, 2005)
  • Proposed Language Amendments on the Draft Declaration for the UN High-Level Event, 14-16 September 2005, prepared by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, and Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
  • Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, participated in the United Nations General Assembly Informal Interactive Hearings with NGOs, Civil Society, and the Private Sector, June 23–24, 2005, New York. To read her statement, click here.
  • As a contribution to the discussions leading up to the Millennium Summit review, please find below the Center for Women's Global Leadership's (CWGL) initial comments, suggestions and recommendations in relation to the Secretary General's "In Larger Freedom: towards freedom, security and human rights for all" report. We have limited our scope primarily to the issues around human rights and the proposed Human Rights Council, gender equality and violence against women, civil society participation and a few other areas. We share these talking points as part of the development of strategies in the lead-up to September's 5-year review. We have recommended broad issues to consider as well as ideas for inclusion in any governmental national statements and in the Annex to the report. Talking Points on the Millennium Summit Review and Women's Human Rights (Word, PDF) (Spanish translation: Word, PDF), Center for Women's Global Leadership (April 26, 2005)
  • ECOSOC Roundtable 5: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. This speech was given by Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, as part of a panel organized by UNIFEM to look at what contribution the Millennium Summit +5 Review, to be held in September in New York, could make to forwarding gender equality and women’s empowerment in the context of the Beijing +10 Review recently concluded in New York. (March 17, 2005)
  • Sign-on letter to Kofi Annan on report for Millennium Summit (March 31, 2005)
  • Letter to Kofi Annan for his report in preparation for the Millennium Summit, WEDO and CWGL (February 22, 2005)

Gender Monitoring Group of the World Summit

Gender Monitoring Group of the World Summit is a project of the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).

The Center for Women's Global Leadership, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) have launched an advocacy and monitoring campaign to ensure that voices of women are heard in the forthcoming meeting of world leaders at the United Nations 2005 World Summit to take place from September 14-16. Gender Monitoring Group of the World Summit is designed to highlight the issues that the Summit will address and how they affect women around the world. During the Summit, heads of governments from most of the world's nations - the overwhelming majority of whom are men - will gather to debate a series of proposals regarding peace and security, human rights and development as well as reform of the United Nations itself. The Gender Monitoring Group has developed a position paper, What's at Stake for Women (Word, PDF), which highlights how the key issues are relevant to women and how to implement a gender perspective into proposed policies. You can read this and other Gender Monitoring Group Summit materials at our shared website, “Beijing and Beyond,” at www.beijingandbeyond.org.”

See below for additional information.

Press Releases :

Gender Monitoring Group of the World Summit Downloadable Media Kit
(Microsoft Word)

• Cover letter
• Press release
• What's at Stake for Women
• Women Making a Difference
• Bios of Spokeswomen
• M5 Amendments
• Civil Society Organizations in Support of Proposed Language Amendments on the Draft Outcome Document for the World Summit

Gender Monitoring Group of the World Summit is a project of the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). Please click on logo above for more information.

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