Beijing Declaration: Annex I(36)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/08/29
36. Ensure the success of the Platform for Action, which will require a strong commitment on the part of Governments, international organizations and institutions at all levels. We are deeply convinced that economic development, social development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development, which is the framework for our efforts to achieve a higher quality of life for all people. Equitable social development that recognizes empowering the poor, particularly women living in poverty, to utilize environmental resources sustainably is a necessary foundation for sustainable development. We also recognize that broad-based and sustained economic growth in the context of sustainable development is necessary to sustain social development and social justice. The success of the Platform for Action will also require adequate mobilization of resources at the national and international levels as well as new and additional resources to the developing countries from all available funding mechanisms, including multilateral, bilateral and private sources for the advancement of women; financial resources to strengthen the capacity of national, subregional, regional and international institutions; a commitment to equal rights, equal responsibilities and equal opportunities and to the equal participation of women and men in all national, regional and international bodies and policy-making processes; and the establishment or strengthening of mechanisms at all levels for accountability to the world’s women;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Here we come to a rather large stipulation about the rights of the women in accordance with the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. Looking at the basic template stipulated in the first statement, we have the recognition of the need for both government and institutions to work together for the success at all levels.
This can potentially bring questions to mind about the nature of the issues and the targeted objective for success. The obvious questions in mind are the ways in which economic development, social development, and environmental protection are interrelated. In fact, the Sustainable Development Goals and other international objectives relate to this triplet of action.
The goals for a more sustainable future relate directly to the world of a future where, for example, climate change is tackled and the social and economic structures are put in place to be able to deal with the global warming crisis in a sustainable way, in order to provide a world worth living in for future generations.
This would remain in spite of individuals or groups in denial of the and knowingly or unknowingly pressing the species towards the proverbial cliff. These three domains working in unison for the better future can rise many tides through mutual reinforcement. For example, the development of the next wave of economic growth in the energy sector, which will be sustainable energy, can be an economic and sustainability boon while also stabilizing communities with good, high-paying jobs.
This raises the health of the surrounding environment and the of the communities benefiting from these technological productions and economic activity. One of the target populations for this form of growth can be women in poverty or penurious circumstances. The use of the economic and environmental resources from these economic activities could be used to improvetheir livelihoods and circumstances.
Indeed, there does seem to be good reason to believe the investment in women improvements the lives of children, families, and communities more than simply the investment in the men on international metrics of the issue. These efforts sustained over time lead to the forms of social justice and social development desired by many citizens, especially the social justice of equity for women and people of color.
With the work ahead of us, this will also mean the multinational cooperation in order to create the leverage for the advancement of women. They reiteratethe power in the financial resources being strengthened for the national to the international interests, institutionally. This comes, happily, alongside the commitment to equal opportunities, responsibilities, and rights.
Furthermore, these create the basis for the greater involvement of men and women in both the bodies and decision-making entities relevant for the full equality of men and women. The equality of women with men should not be hollow, which is where the final portion of the stipulation comes into play; where the equality of the sexes comes in the form of open and transparent accountability of actions of the institutions of the world to women, this creates the foundation for the real local justice through international means.
–One can find similar statements in other documents, conventions, declarations and so on, with the subsequent statements of equality or women’s rights:
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Preamble, Article 16, and Article 25(2).
- Convention Against Discrimination in Education (1960) in Article 1.
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 3, Article 7, and Article 13.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984).
- The Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1993).
- Beijing Declaration(1995).
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000).
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000).
- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the “Maputo Protocol” (2003).
- Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence or the Istanbul Convention (2011) Article 38 and Article 39.
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