This outcome of the Beijing Conference is an agenda for women’s empowerment. It aims at accelerating the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women. It deals with removing the obstacles to women’s public participation in all spheres of public and private lives through a full and equal share in economic, social, cultural and political decision-making. The Platform for Action sets out a number of actions that should lead to fundamental changes by the year 2000 – the Five Year Review of the Beijing Conference at a Special Session of the UN General Assembly (Beijing +5).