LIU, Alm.del - 2019-20 - Bilag 49: Henvendelse af 31/1-2020 fra Inter-Parliamentary Union, IPU, om invitation til møder, bl.a. den 11/3-2020, i forbindelse med CSW64 (FN's Kvindekommissions 64. session)

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LIU Alm.del Bilag 49
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Beijing +25: Parliaments accelerating action to achieve

gender equality for all women and girls

11 March 2020, Trusteeship Council Room, UN headquarters, New York

Geneva, 31 January 2020

Office of the

Secretary General

Dear Madam President,

Dear Mr. President,

The Parliamentary Meeting at the 64

session of the Commission on the Status of

Women will be held in New York, in the Trusteeship Council Room of the United

Nations Headquarters, on 11 March 2020. It will be hosted by the Inter-Parliamentary

Union (IPU) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment

of Women (UN

Women). The Meeting will contribute to the Commission’s main theme,

Beijing +25: Realizing gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.

The theme of the Parliamentary Meeting is

Beijing +25: Parliaments accelerating

action to achieve gender equality for all women and girls.

2020 marks the

anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It also marks the

first five-year milestone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the

anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and

Security.

The Parliamentary Meeting will focus on how these milestones can provide

momentum to accelerate progress towards achieving gender equality and fulfilling the

rights and empowerment of women and girls. Parliaments play a key role in policy

decisions and budgetary allocations and can lead the way in scaling up action to

achieve gender equality, including by applying a gender lens, demanding

accountability from government, being gender-sensitive institutions, and partnering

with stakeholders from government, civil society, academia, the media and the private

sector.

The Parliamentary Meeting will emphasize three specific priorities for accelerated

action by parliaments in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for

Action: achieving equality in political decision-making; promoting gender-responsive

legislation; and eliminating violence against women and girls, including in the context

of armed conflict.

I enclose the agenda of the meeting and other relevant documents, which are also

available at

https://www.ipu.org/event/annual-parliamentary-meeting-64th-

commission-status-women.

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LIU, Alm.del - 2019-20 - Bilag 49: Henvendelse af 31/1-2020 fra Inter-Parliamentary Union, IPU, om invitation til møder, bl.a. den 11/3-2020, i forbindelse med CSW64 (FN's Kvindekommissions 64. session)

I strongly encourage your Parliament to request

that your country’s delegation to the

Commission on the Status of Women include both male and female members of

parliament, notably chairpersons and members of gender equality, legal affairs or

human rights committees. This would ensure their attendance and contribution to the

IPU-UN Women Parliamentary Meeting. It would also facilitate the inclusion of a

parliamentary perspective in the

Commission’s

deliberations, which will take place

from 9 to 20 March 2020.

In addition to the Parliamentary Meeting, the IPU will organize two side events on 10

and 12 March 2020. The first side event, on online harassment, will be held on

10 March, from 1.15 to 2.30 p.m., in the Ex-Press Bar

of the GA Building, at UN

Headquarters, in New York. The second side event, on women in politics, will be held

12 March, from 3 to 4.15 p.m., in the same venue.

Additional information is

available in the attached information note. As the United Nations does not have

interpretation facilities in the informal meeting rooms, these side events will be held in

English only.

Yours sincerely,

Martin Chungong

Secretary General