The UN Secretary-General’s report (E/CN.6/2010/2) in preparation for the 54th Commission on the Status of Women who undertook the 15 year review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BpfA), including the section J – Women and Media. Media and ICT are mentioned throughout the Report as important tools for awareness raising and information dissemination, for example, under the sections covering ‘Education and training’, ‘Women and health’, ‘Violence against women’, ‘Human rights of women’ and ‘The girl child’.
Read the review of the UN Secretary-General’s report by Jac sm Kee: Beyond tools: Internet as a critical policy issue for the advancement of women’s rights
Source GenderIT.org
Review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – Report of the Secretary-General