Addis Ababa Declaration on Accelerating the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action

This declaration addresses the necessity to implement the principles enshrined in the Beijing Platform for Action in connection to a post-2015 African development agenda. It underlines the need to ensure that growing and new challenges to gender equality must be addressed, and states must underline and enforce women’s rights, adopt gender-sensitive planning, and demand accountability from other member states and organizations to achieve these goals.