On official international indicators, South Africa is doing well on MDG 3, to...

“On official international indicators, South Africa is doing well on MDG 3, to promote and empower women.”

“Next year marks twenty years since the Beijing Conference which adopted the Beijing Platform for Action. The anniversary provides an opportunity for the UN and the international community to reflect and take forward the struggle for the emancipation of women from all forms of discrimination.”

“Since 1994 South Africa has made significant progress in transforming the apartheid state into a democratic one founded on the values of human dignity, non-discrimination, non-racialism and nonsexism, the rule of law, and universal adult suffrage as enshrined in the Constitution.”