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Over the last two weeks an international team of IPS reporters have filed daily updates on the 54th session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), and the continuing challenges of holding governments accountable to the promises made fifteen years ago in Beijing.

The Beijing+15 daily electronic IPS-TerraViva includes analyses of the latest developments from the IPS team in New York, as well as gender stories from the global IPS Gender Wire.

Read or download the special 1st March and 8th March newspapers and all the other news at IPS TerraViva Beijing+15 to find out if women’s rights have become human rights yet.

CSW Marked by Political Uncertainties
By Thalif Deen and Anna Shen
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS/TerraViva) — When a two-week meeting on gender empowerment concluded at U.N. headquarters Friday, there were several lingering questions crying out for answers.

Building a Safety Net for Women Migrants
By Christian Benoni
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS/TerraViva) Female migrant workers play a critical role in promoting development in their home countries, but continue to face discrimination in host nations, even ones that have policies on the books designed to protect them.

Women Hold Keys to Food Security
By Christian Benoni
Any strategies to ensure food security must address women’s access and right to land ownership, stress experts and activists meeting on the sidelines of the CSW in New York.

Q&A: “Women Work in Both the Productive and Reproductive Sectors”
TerraViva correspondent Selina Rust spoke to Gemma Adaba from the ITUC about the progress of women’s rights in the workplace.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS/TerraViva) Thirty women union delegates representing a million working women in their membership came to the CSW here to advocate on behalf of women?s rights at work around the globe.

Financial Crisis Turning Back the Clock for Women
By Chryso D’Angelo
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS/TerraViva) Fifteen years after the landmark Beijing Declaration on women?s rights, the gender gap is not narrowing in most developing countries, according to the ?Gender Equity Index (GEI) 2009, Beijing and Beyond: Putting Gender Economics at the Forefront.

Special op-ed by Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN

1325 implementation — Where is Secretary-General’s leadership?
By Anwarul K. Chowdhury
New York, March 8 — Exactly to the date, 10 years ago, on the International Women’s Day, on behalf of the UN Security Council as its President, I had the honor to issue a statement that brought to global attention the unrecognized, under-utilized and under-valued contribution women can make to preventing war, to building peace and to engaging individuals and societies live in harmony.

TerraViva is the family of independent periodicals published by IPS-Inter Press Service – Global News Agency. The TerraViva Beijing +15 is part of the IPS programme Communicating for Change: Getting Voice, Visibility and Impact for Gender Equality (http://www.ips.org/mdg3). The IPS cast of stories includes independent coverage financed through the Dutch Government’s MDG3 Fund: Investing in Equality, and through the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).