Beijing Platform for Action, Chapter II: Global Framework – Paragraph 8
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/09/03
8. The Platform for Action recognizes the importance of the agreements reached at the World Summit for Children, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population and Development and the World Summit for Social Development, which set out specific approaches and commitments to fostering sustainable development and international cooperation and to strengthening the role of the United Nations to that end. Similarly, the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, the International Conference on Nutrition, the International Conference on Primary Health Care and the World Conference on Education for All have addressed the various facets of development and human rights, within their specific perspectives, paying significant attention to the role of women and girls. In addition, the International Year for the World’s Indigenous People,/4 the International Year of the Family,/5 United Nations Year for Tolerance,/6 the Geneva Declaration for Rural Women,/7 and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women/8 have also emphasized the issues of women’s empowerment and equality.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
This particular passage or paragraph of the Beijing Declaration is rather substantial but important as it references a large number of the documents and conferences relevant to the equality of the sexes – remembering, of course, that the purpose of these coverages of the paragraphs, stipulations, and statements is not comprehensive reflection on every point but to provide commentary, explanation as needed, and a biased perspective of someone in favour of the principles of human rights and the implementation of equality of women with men through the provision and instantiation of women’s rights and fundamental freedoms in all societies.
It is in this sense: I want freedom for everyone. The summits, conferences, and so on, mentioned provide a light not only into the various kinds of emphases of the international community – some – here. But it also gives an insight into the level the community of women’s rights campaigners is willing to go in order to further women’s rights. This is important, to me at any rate. These have helped bring women’s rights concern to the fore.
Similarly, there have been a number of documents written to incorporate the various facets of gender equality with different domains of consideration in economics, political and civic life, family and social arenas, and so on. All part and parcel for the increased empowerment of women. It is important to do something, but it also helps to provide a grounding upon which to argue for women’s equality when they are crystallized, nearly completely, in some international rights documents.
Those same documents also, happily, give some basis in recommendations and suggestions for the equality of the sexes. It is all exciting and important. For more information on these, the links in the paragraph at the top can give a decent glimpses in what has been considered as important for the 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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