---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:05:57 -0700 From: Carol D. McRoberts <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [WASAN] Fw: [women-csd] FW: AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS ADOPT SOLEMN DECLARATION ON GENDER EQUALITY Subject: [women-csd] FW: AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS ADOPT SOLEMN DECLARATION ON GENDER EQUALITY > > 6-8 July 2004 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia > > July 2004 > > AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT 2004 - AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS ADOPT SOLEMN DECLARATION ON > GENDER EQUALITY > > Gender equality was the focus of deliberations at the recent African Union > Summit that took place from 6-8 July in Addis Ababa. Nigeria was elected Chair > of the current third session of the AU Assembly, succeeding Mozambique who held > the post for the previous session. > > Delegates to the AU Summit adopted a "Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality > in Africa," agreeing, inter alia, to accelerate the implementation of gender > specific measures aimed at combating HIV/AIDS and to implement agreements on > Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and other related infectious disease. Such > measures include ensuring that treatment and social services are available to women > at the local level, enacting legislation to end discrimination against women > living with HIV/AIDS, and increasing budgetary allocations to alleviate women's > burden of care. Other agreements address: women's participation in the peace > process; recruitment of child soldiers and abuse of girls; gender-based > violence and trafficking; human rights for women and girls; education and literacy; > and promotion of the implementation of legislation that guarantees women's > land, property and inheritance rights. > > According to the UN wire, Nigeria's President and new AU Chair Olusegun > Obasanjo said that most, "if not all" African societies were deeply chauvinistic. > Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade focused on female genital mutilation as a practice > that must be ceased and told fellow AU leaders that they "have a duty to stop" > the early marriage of girls. Rwanda's Paul Kagame identified women as > "indispensable" to the process of reconstruction and reconciliation in his country, a > decade after genocide terrorized the population. South Africa's Thabo Mbeki > urged governments to encourage gender equality in the private sector. > > African leaders also adopted a declaration on the ongoing review of the EU > Common Agricultural Policy and its impact on trade in commodities with ACP > countries, and took decisions on, inter alia, the: vision and mission of the AU, > and the strategic plan, programme and budget of the Commission; implementation > of NEPAD; report of the Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization; > upcoming Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora; hosting of > the 2010 World Cup in South Africa; establishment of the Pan African Parliament; > and the situation in Darfur, Sudan. > > On NEPAD implementation, the decision notes that at current rates of > development, many African countries are unlikely to meet the Millennium Development > Goals due to lack of resource flows. Delegates resolved to undertake necessary > measures to enhance the development of expanded and integrated national > development plans and related policies, and to fast-track the adoption of NEPAD > programmes as a means towards achieving the MDGs. The decision further notes the > importance of agriculture in Africa's development, and reaffirms commitment and > determination to raise food production, reduce hunger and transform rural > Africa by way of developing and launching Africa's Green Revolution. > > More information is available at: > http://www.africa-union.org/home/Welcome.htm > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > This is a listserver set up by the CSD Women's Caucus. It has been established to circulate information in relation to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), particularly on women / gender and sustainable development issues. 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