One Agenda for the Millennium Summit Released
Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:05 PM

TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN GOVERNMENT DELEGATIONS TO THE 49TH CSW SESSION, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, SECURITY COUNCIL, UNDP, WORLD BANK, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS, COUNTRY MISSIONS, UNIFEM, DAW

ONE AGENDA FOR THE MILLENNIUM SUMMIT

NGOs CALL FOR RESPECT FOR WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS, DEVELOPMENT, COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND ANTI-RACISM AS ONE AGENDA OF THE MILLENNIUM SUMMIT

STATEMENT AT THE 49TH SESSION OF CSW
March 11, 2005

We, members of national, regional and global civil society organizations, networks and campaigns applaud the unequivocal and unanimous support by all the governments to the full reaffirmation of the Beijing Platform for action at the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

We call upon governments while reaffirming the Beijing Platform and preparing for the Millennium Summit in September 2005, to prevent the fragmentation of and to reaffirm the holistic nature of the Human Development Agenda. Specifically, we note that the realization of the Millennium Declaration and of the Millennium Development Goals depends upon the empowerment of all women, the attainment of gender equality and the acknowledgement of women’s human rights. This requires full implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, the CEDAW, UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and all other recognized international human rights instruments.

Sustainable development, peace, collective security, respect for human rights, and a world free from poverty, violence, racial and all other forms of discrimination – are integral parts of ONE AGENDA. None of these can be fulfilled in isolation. None of these can be fulfilled unless sufficient resources are made available, not just pledged. None of these can be fulfilled without the full respect for women’s human rights and also a genuine participation of civil society.

We call upon your political will to ensure that the consensus reached at the 49th CSW session will be carried on to the Millennium Summit and that the outcome of the Summit will reaffirm and respect the indivisibility of human rights, the welcomed and enabled participation of the civil society and that the ONE AGENDA approach will prevail as you define the future of the United Nations and of the World.

Make the Millennium Summit REAL.

The ONE AGENDA Statement was endorsed by the NGO Linkage Caucus, by global, regional and national networks and organizations and by the regional caucuses:

Central and Eastern European and Commonwealth of Independent States Caucus
Asia-Pacific Women’s Watch Caucus
South Asia Women’s Watch Caucus
Latin American Women’s Caucus