This space is to share some useful links to resources on the Beijing +5 review process. We hope you will help us expand this resource by sending documents as an e-mail attachment to flamme@sn.apc.org with NEW FLAME DOCUMENT as the title.

documents on women online in africa …focusing on African women's use of ICTs

international official documents …protecting and extending women's rights

african official documents ... how the continent has committed itself to gender equality

african regional declarations

african government reports... each country attending the Beijing conference was required to submit a national report on the status of its women and its interventions to achieve gender equaility

ngo shadow reports ...viewed as 'the shadow' of the government reports following Beijing, each country also agreed to submit a report from its civil society and how it was working toward gender equality

6th african regional conference on women: daily bulletins...produced daily at the conference by the Flame network.

events update ... reports or minutes of events related to the beijing+5 review process.

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documents on women online in Africa
Report: APC Women's Program in Africa and WomenAction research
This is a report on the research into the situation of computer networking among women's organizations in Africa and how WomenAction can support their participation in the Beijing+5 process. It was presented at the 6th African Regional Conference on Women for the Mid-Decade Review of the Implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action (PfA), 22-27 November 1999, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

APC-Africa-Women statement
This statement was launched at the 6th African Regional Conference on Women in Addis Ababa in November 1999. The focus is on women's access and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for equality and development in Africa.

international official documents
Agenda 21
Beijing Platform for Action
Déclaration de Beijing
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Charte Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Plan of Action (Cairo)
Micro Credit Summit
World Summit for Social Development (The Copenhagen Declaration)
Women's Year and Decade Declaration

african official documents
African Charter for Human & People's Rights
Additional Protocol to the African Charter for Human & People's Rights
African Platform for Action, Dakar
Plate-forme d'action africaine, Dakar
African Platform for Action en Francais
Lagos Plan of Action
Kampala Declaration
Nairobi Forward Looking Strategy
Implementation of Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies

african regional declarations
SADC Declaration on Gender and Development
SADC Declaration on the Prevention and Eradication of Violence Against Women and Children

african government reports
list of country reports submitted to the ECA

• Algeria
• Ethiopia
• Tunisia
• Uganda

ngo shadow reports

South African Draft Report

6th african regional conference on women: daily bulletins

First Edition, 22 November 1999

Second Edition, 23 November 1999

Third Edition, 24 November 1999

Fourth Edition, 25 November 1999

Fifth Edition, 26 November 1999

events update