Beijing Platform for Action, Chapter II: Global Framework – Paragraph 6 & 7
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/09/02
6. The Fourth World Conference on Women is taking place as the world stands poised on the threshold of a new millennium.
7. The Platform for Action upholds the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women /3 and builds upon the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, as well as relevant resolutions adopted by the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly. The formulation of the Platform for Action is aimed at establishing a basic group of priority actions that should be carried out during the next five years.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Today’s paragraphs will include 6 and 7 of the Beijing Declaration in the second chapter entitled Chapter II: Global Framework. The Declaration is a large-scale document intended to provide some bases upon which to tackle some of the most difficult rights and equality problems in the modern world. At the time, it was an era of looking at the new millennium coming forward, as the document was being written in 1995.
It is relatively straightforward regarding the 6th paragraph, which speaks to the conference associated with the document – the Fourth World Conference on Women – with the main purpose being to reiterate a stance. A position or orientation for the future. One where equality can be better achieved for women with men. It references one of the documents already covered in this non-expert series.
Here, we can see the CEDAW or the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women intended to provide a rights-basis for the reduction and eventual elimination of violence and other forms of discrimination against women. Then there are references to a variety of resolutions regarding these rights too. Within the Platform for Action, ths 7th paragraph is one speaking more to the development of a series of groupings of importance. Some stipulations or statements for women’s rights become more important than others in the context of the particular tageted activist objectives.
Those goals where some rights and actions get naturally grouped together for the setting of action items or priority actions for the implementation of equality. It was based on a 1995-2000 framework, apparently, with the “next five years” as the timeline for the development of these priority actions. All part of the general move towards more equality of the sexes.
–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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