The Beijing Express Declaration is a document prepared before the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women. Background The Beijing Express was the name given to the train journey by a group of 25 Eastern European participants, sponsored by a British Council and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, who travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway to attend the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women. During the trip working sessions were held, including the final one which was facilitated by Lesley Abdela. The outcome of the final session was the declaration, influenced by Irish United Nations Development Programme staffer Leueen Miller. The theme of the declaration, "White veils, not blue helmets" reflected the participants' view that United Nation's peacekeeping and diplomacy efforts were failures because of male domination. References External links Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Beijing +5 Political Declaration and Outcome, UN Women, 2015 An Evaluation of Impact: Substantive Programme Issues, UNDP, 2011 Archive Beijing Platform for Action, UN Women, 2020, official website United Nations documents United Nations Development Programme 1995 documents 1995 in international relations