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This report looks at the relationship between the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA), and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). The report notes that "the gender equality issues that arise under each of the MDGs are integrally connected to CEDAW and Beijing - what gender equality means, and what is required to achieve it, doesn't change from framework to framework." The first part of the report considers three different strategic entry points to put MDGs to work for gender equality: the national MDG reports, monitoring processes, and mainstreaming gender equality. The second part of the report goes through each of the eight MDGs and analyzes what is required under CEDAW and the PFA to better link the MDGs to these other instruments.