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DRAFT PLATFORM FOR ACTION

The draft Platform for Action consists of six chapters: the mission statement; the global framework; critical areas of concern; strategic objectives and actions; institutional arrangements; and financial arrangements. The twelve critical areas of concern, which are elaborated on in the chapter on strategic objectives and actions, relate to: women in poverty; education and health care; violence against women; effects of conflict on women; power-sharing and decision-making; mechanisms to promote the advancement of women; human rights; mass media; women's management of natural resources and the environment; and the girl child. The G-77/China proposed a draft Conference Declaration, to which the EU, US and Canada proposed amendments. The Declaration will be negotiated entirely in Beijing.