Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. B. Education and Training of Women – Paragraph 80(h)-(j)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/10/10
Strategic objective B.1.
Ensure equal access to education
Actions to be taken
80. By Governments:
h. Improve the quality of education and equal opportunities for women and men in terms of access in order to ensure that women of all ages can acquire the knowledge, capacities, aptitudes, skills and ethical values needed to develop and to participate fully under equal conditions in the process of social, economic and political development;
i. Make available non-discriminatory and gender-sensitive professional school counselling and career education programmes to encourage girls to pursue academic and technical curricula in order to widen their future career opportunities;
j. Encourage ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights/13 where they have not already done so.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The Beijing Declaration is crucial for the proper understanding of the rights developments for women around the world circa 1995. The progress has been global since that time. However, there can be pockets of regression, even regression-progression dependent on the system of a nation or region taken into account for the calculus.
The improvement in the quality of education and the ability to gain some access to those societal systems is one important move for women to be more equal with men in the world.
Furthermore, the inclusion of gender as an important adjunct consideration of the efficacy of various initiatives and implementations. The emphasis in paragraph 80 is the entire setup of the educational system to enhance or improve the quality of skills, education, and character development women and men have on offer.
It is intriguing to note the ways in which the historically marginalized can become those needing to be empowered so swiftly. Genuinely, an exciting and positive proposition for much of the world, of which we can observe the benefits to the cultural development now.
Everyone or the vast majority of people will encounter some form of major setback or trial in their lives. This may require professional care. The construction of a counselling system built for the pupils at all levels of education is important.
The prior segmentation of society becomes less and less viable over time. Furthermore, there is, certainly, an improvement in the material conditions of everyone with the improved capacities of societies’ citizenry to take part, in wider and broader portions of the population, in education on a mass scale.
The factor of gender in education can, in part, improve the possibility of a more inclusive environment for women in many of the abovementioned professions and educational areas. Indeed, this even comes alongside the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
It is an international, multilateral treaty is one of the most important human rigths documents in the world. Thus, this emphasis on education connected to this should not be taken lightly.
–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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