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IN THE CORRIDORS

NGOs are reporting success in getting their proposals into the draft Platform for Action. The health section is one example where NGOs report that official delegations have used ideas and arguments that NGOs have advocated, although they await the results of closed informal consultations on key issues, such as parental and sexual rights, race and ethnicity. Pre-Conference preparations, including meetings with official delegations in their capitals and at regional ministerial meetings, were among the strategies that NGOs employed in their lobbying campaigns. They credit the "Conference of Commitments" as a hook during the intersessional period for bringing together interested groups to consider the FWCW themes and the commitments they wanted their nations make.