Sitemap of Beijing Platform for Action in Europe & CIS

Introduction

12 areas of concern

Women and Poverty

• Main achievements and challenges in the region  
• Indicator: Ratio of estimated female to male earned income  
• Indicator: Availability of sex-disaggregated statistics

Education and Training of Women

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicator: Educational attainment by level of education (primary/tertiary), sex
• Indicator:  Enrolment ratio at secondary level by sex

Women and Health

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicator: Life expectancy men – women
• Indicator: Maternal mortality and births attended by skilled health personnel

* Women and HIV/AIDS       

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicators: Reported HIV cases and HIV prevalence among youth
• Indicators: Sexual behavior patterns of young people
  
  * HIV/AIDS has been inserted as a separate area for the purpose of this website. Please note though that in the Beijing Plaform for Action, HIV/AIDS  is dealt with in the context of  “Women and Health”.

Violence against Women

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicator: Laws in place that address domestic violence, sexual assault or rape and sexual harassment
  
• Indicator: Extent to which laws are enforced

Women and Armed Conflict

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicator: Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• Indicator: National action plans on United Nations Security Council Resolution  1325

Women and the Economy

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicator: Female professional and technical workers
• Indicator: Adult economic activity rate - men vs. women

Women in Power and Decision-Making

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicators: Women in national parliaments
• Indicators: Women in decision making positions

Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicators: National machinery and strategies for women’s empowerment and gender equality
• Indicator: Discrepancy between law and practice concerning women

Human Rights of Women

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicator: Status of ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its Optional Protocol 
• Indicator: Compliance with reporting obligations under CEDAW
• Indicator: Laws in place the protect women’s human rights

Women and the Media

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicators: Women’s representation and coverage of gender issues in the media

Women and the Environment

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicator: Women’s access to land
• Indicator: Gender perspectives incorporated in national development and action plans for sustainable environmental management

The Girl Child

• Main achievements and challenges in the region
• Indicators: Legal age of marriage and prevalence of early marriages among girls
• Indicator: Number of first marriages by sex and age
• Indicator: Adolescent fertility rate

Linkages and data on 

• The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)