Beijing Platform for Action, Chapter IV: Strategic Objectives and Actions – Paragraph 45
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/09/21
45. In each critical area of concern, the problem is diagnosed and strategic objectives are proposed with concrete actions to be taken by various actors in order to achieve those objectives. The strategic objectives are derived from the critical areas of concern and specific actions to be taken to achieve them cut across the boundaries of equality, development and peace – the goals of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women – and reflect their interdependence. The objectives and actions are interlinked, of high priority and mutually reinforcing. The Platform for Action is intended to improve the situation of all women, without exception, who often face similar barriers, while special attention should be given to groups that are the most disadvantaged.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The critical areas of concern in the Beijing Declaration, Chapter III, transition into a section on the Strategic Objectives and Actions. Paragraph 45 is devoted to some of the statements around goals and targeted objective, i.e., the “strategic objectives.”The foci here are the principles of development, equality, and peace. Those laid out in the stated strategies for the advancement of women.
The important part in this particular paragraph about a statement of principles, as with others, comes in the form of the acknowledgment of the mutual interdependence of the principles: that is, to get peace then one needs equality, to get equality one needs development, to get development, therefore, one needs both peace and equality, and so on, in the array of possible permutations.
The interdependent combinatorics of values is always fun. Now, with the work towards one, the inevitable rise in another value will emerge based on the interdependence of them. Indeed, the mutual reinforcement is important to consider, as the improvement in the degree of equality will also increase the level of development & peace in a particular society.
They are, also, high priorities within the international community according to this statement. It is an important fact about the nature of the world, especially the global community’s representatives, in the importance of the highest ideals of, for examples, equality, development, and peace. The interdependent nature of the values creates a situation in which the implementation becomes both mutual benefit and priorities, with each of them for a net benefit. But to what?
The aim is for the equality of women in a number of domains. If we look at the situation for women, the main issue has been the barriers in several domains. With the implementation of rights oriented within these three core priority values, the situation for women improves and, in fact, the health, wealth, and social development of the society improves if implemented.
Bearing in mind, of course, the implementation of one value reinforces the others for a continual benefit throughout. In other words, and in conclusion, the implementaton of initiatives, strategies, and plans towards the development of either peace, equality, or development – or all at once – increases the conditions for women around the world, or at least within the locale in which they happen to be actualized to some minimum degree.
The question then becomes the level of improved conditions required, where the answer will show in the statistics and, in matter of the fact, the international data analyzed around the world on what is termed the advancement of women and the empowerment of women – as the big, broad category – improves the overall health and wealth of the society. In any one way, the rest will follow in improvement as well.
In particular, the most disadvantaged groups of women, too, will improve with the implementation of the fundamental human rights for them. It is, in this sense, the basis for women, and especially women of color, around the world as the poorest of the world tend to be women, especially women of color, and the improvement in the social and economic conditions for women coming in the form of the mutually interdependent and beneficial principles of equality, peace, and development produce an environment in which the women, especially women of color, can more readily live happier and healthier lives.
The work to prevent this would seem to amount to a global crime with unspeakable damage to future generations of women, in general, living in some most destitute and penurious circumstances; the basis for the equal rights and status of women will come in the form of more implementation of women’s rights, especially as filtered through the prism of, at least, those three principles of development, equality, and peace.
–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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