Beijing Declaration: Annex I(37)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/08/30
37. Ensure also the success of the Platform for Action in countries with economies in transition, which will require continued international cooperation and assistance;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The Beijing Declaration from 1995, in Annex I(37), speaks to the need for the implementation of the Platform of Action for not only the advanced industrial economies seen in a few dozen nations. But also, the nations sometimes labeled undeveloped, developing, or underdeveloped. Those countries without the technological and social, and even governmental and legal, infrastructure probably necessary for the full implementation of calls to action such as the Platform for Action.
The Platform of Action, which will be covered in more depth starting in the next few days. It is something worth considering, as this provides in-depth and actionable areas for implementing the human rights of women. The need for other countries to insist on cooperation on the relevant superpowers of the world to help with the development of some of the nations least among us is an ethical imperative.
Because without that help, there will unlikely be the desired development of many of these in transition countries, which may, without the relevant help, in fact, be in transition nations but, rather, those Member States that could have developed but did not in the end. The richest countries in the world, by implication and direct statement of multiple human rights documents stipulation, have a moral obligation to the countries with populations among the least among us.
The international cooperation aspect of this particular statement in one of the last annexes is important because this orients the notion of a truly global network bound to one another, in order to reduce the level of noise and increase the degree of fidelity or signal in the provisions for the peoples of the world – to increase the signal to noise ratio of the work of the international community.
Also, this cooperation through the practical implementation of assistance could be debated, considered, and then reworked for proportionate contributions to the transitions of these “economies in transition” of the various nations of the United Nations. There is not an explicit mention here, but, in general, there is an acknowledgment of the need to include women into the central economy in order for the countries in transition to develop more completely and comprehensively.
It is not limited to economics, politics, social life, legal issues, cultural norms, and religious or irreligious status of the majority of the population; it is something interconnected, woven together in a national tapestry to warm the national melting pots for greater development of quality of human life for the inhabitants or citizens of any particular economy in transition.
The empowerment of women remains an important part of this. Indeed, without the inclusion of women in the policymaking and decision-making apparatuses of the world, this can lead to the degradation of national development. Most studies into the main means by which to improve the livelihood of the general population include the women of the nations being empowered.
The Beijing Declaration, the Platform of Action, and the international assistance and cooperation are important parts of this. Where this can become a problem is in the unwillingness of traditional cultural norms, sexist workplace rules and regulations and social mores, a religious and institutional law preventing women from full and equal access to the important levers of power in the society, these working individually or in tandem can be national preventatives, whether conscious or unknowingly, for the full advancement and empowerment of women efforts through the international cooperation and assistance.
Thus, this takes an order change of how the globe has been set, built, and processed for the entirety, or much of, modern industrial and pre-industrial-and-post-agricultural societies and civilizations, which is in the favour of men in general, ethnic majority men in particular, and the religiously dominant classes and the wealthy/royal sectors of the society. These new steps are being taken but there is an obvious pushback against the equality of women with a rise in concomitant xenophobia, racism, sexism, restriction of women’s rights as persons, and authoritarianism.
Each with attempts to divide nations and its citizenry in order to wrest back power from the public, to undermine public solidarity, prevent the construction of social service programs for the public, and to try to have women back in the home and with the children – lots of them. The international order is in flux, but the cooperation and assistance from the world seems one of the more plausible and direct routes to equality of the sexesin the end, in spite of the rise in explicit barriers cynically exploitative of base human tendencies.
–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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