At its 40th plenary meeting, on 28 July 2009, the Economic and Social Council, underlining the significance of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in 2010, which will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,29 the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women 32 and the thirty-fifth anniversary of the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, held in Mexico City from 19 June to 2 July 1975, and noting that the Commission will undertake, at its fifty-fourth session, a review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,30 emphasizing the sharing of experiences and good practices, with a view to overcoming remaining obstacles and new challenges, including those related to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals:33
