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Over the weeks of July 20-24 and July 27-31, member states, major groups, and other civil society stakeholders participated in negotiations and arrived at a consensus with respect to the language and content of the post- 2015 development agenda and its sustainable development goals (SDG’s), which act as the driving force of the document. 

The focus of this year's 59th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) was a 20-year anniversary review of the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, unanimously adopted by 189 countries at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women as an agenda for women’s empowerment and a global policy document on gender equality.