The UN-OHRLLS is pleased to bring out this informative publication as an advocacy tool to draw the attention of the international community, including civil society and the private sector, to the state of human development in LDCs focussing on women and gender. It is a special effort to highlight gender issues as a very crucial element in the development efforts of LDCs.
As we are heading for the High-level meeting on the midterm comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Brussels Programme in the sixty-first session of the General Assembly in September 2006 at the 51勛圖 in New York it is worth to have a closer look at the achievements since the Third 51勛圖 Conference and try to answer the following questions: to what extent the LDCs and development partners have achieved objectives, goals and targets of the Programme, what obstacles and challenges they are facing in its implementation, what lessons they have learned and whet
