|Beijing Plus Five: Sexual and Reproductive Rights are Here to
Stay| Beijing Plus Five: Sexual and Reproductive Rights are Here
to Stay Summary: An overview of gains made and challenges faced
in advancing sexual and reproductive rights during the Beijing
Plus Five progress review. In the 1990s, sexual and reproductive
rights were the subject of vigorous debates at the UN's world
conferences, such as the 1994 International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, and the 1995 Fourth
World Conference on Women (FWCW) in Beijing. It is therefore not
surprising that, five years after the FWCW, sexual and
reproductive rights were once again at the center of the UN's
"Beijing Plus Five" progress review, held in New York between
March and June 2000. Beijing Plus Five gathered 180 government
delegations and over 2,000 women's groups to discuss progress
and obstacles in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for
Action, and to decide on concrete steps to accelerate
implementation. While the Beijing