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Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) joined hundreds of NGOs and women's rights leaders from around the world at the United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly entitled Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century (Beijing +5) in New York in June 2000. FMF International Campaign Organizer, Ossai Miazad, and Afghan Refugee Giti Shams kicked off the Beijing +5 Conference during the opening Welcome Rally at the United Nations Plaza by addressing the crisis facing Afghan women and girls. Thousands of swatches, distributed by FMF, were worn by speakers and participants to raise awareness of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan throughout the special session events.
History: The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum took place in Beijing, China, in September 1995. With 36,000 women in attendance, this conference was the largest ever -- five times the number of participants attending the first World Conference on Women held in 1975 in Mexico City. Some 8,000 women from the United States attended the 1995 Conference and Forum, including a ten-person Feminist Majority Foundation delegation. This event produced a Global Platform for Action for raising the status of women and provided an unprecedented opportunity to forge alliances among thousands of NGOs and government delegates from every region of the world. Today's Global News | Search Global News Archives | Today's US News | Search US News Archives
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