Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. B. Education and Training of Women – Paragraph 86
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/10/18
Strategic objective B.5.
Allocate sufficient resources for and monitor the implementation of educational reforms
Actions to be taken
86. By multilateral development institutions, including the World Bank, regional development banks, bilateral donors and foundations:
- Consider increasing funding for the education and training needs of girls and women as a priority in development assistance programmes;
- Consider working with recipient Governments to ensure that funding for women’s education is maintained or increased in structural adjustment and economic recovery programmes, including lending and stabilization programmes.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The regional and the multilateral organizations retain the most import in this part of the Beijing Declaration. This is salient to a global perspective. The scales tend to be national, regional, and international. Thus, we’re dealing with a massive focus.
If you wish to learn more about the regions of the world, I encourage some independent investigation on the matter. But to the focus of regional focus on the allocation “good enough” or sufficient resources for the monitoring of the efficaciousness of educational reforms, we can see the need for training of both girls and women.
This becomes an emphasis for the development assistance programmes. Indeed, this is the basis for something like secondary bulwarks for education. The reforms in education may not be clean and the transitions will, probably, require a wide variety of support mechanisms.
Women’s education, as with general education, is the task and responsibility of the government. It should be an encouraged independence of mind. However, the basic notion of women’s education as a fundamental value and benefit to the society, and of import for the lifelong health and wellness of women, puts this squarely in the role of the government as a duty to the public.
As has been noted several paragraphs ago, the structural and economic adjustment programs did not negatively or positively include a gender perspective or women in the vision. This made women and girls non-partners to it.
The main bearers, literally, of the negative impacts for years, and years, were women and girls, especially rural, Indigenous, and poor women and girls; thus, the least among us bore the brunt of the structural adjustments.
The inclusion of them in this becomes important for the improved relations of women within society and, in particular, society towards women – and girls.
–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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