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Many women's organizations around the world, including from Canada, recently signed a statement raising concerns about the process at the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women held in New York, March 1-12, 2010. The session's purpose was to carry out a 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000).

The March 4, 2010 statement, without the final list of signatories can be found on the website of the Association of Women in Development (AWID).
The statement with the full list of signatories is attached as a PDF.

Canada's civil society submission to the session, prepared by the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) and the Canadian Labour Congress with in-put from many groups and individuals across Canada, was entitled "Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Fifteen Years On, a Canadian Civil Society Response." This document can be found on the FAFIA website.

Canada's February 2010 follow-up report to the UN's CEDAW (Committe on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) on its progress on the Beijing Declaration can be found here.

Fafia's response, "No Action, No Progress," together with other responses, can be found here.