Paragraph 85 of the Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. B. Education and Training of Women
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
85. By Governments and, as appropriate, private and public institutions, foundations, research institutes and non-governmental organizations:
- When necessary, mobilize additional funds from private and public institutions, foundations, research institutes and non-governmental organizations to enable girls and women, as well as boys and men on an equal basis, to complete their education, with particular emphasis on under-served populations;
- Provide funding for special programmes, such as programmes in mathematics, science and computer technology, to advance opportunities for all girls and women.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The emphasis here expands from the prior section of the Beijing Declaration with a look into the “private and public institutions, foundations, research institutes and non-governmental organizations.” Neither trivial nor comprehensive in fact.
However, the areas of emphasis here cover a wide, at face value disparate, smattering of systems and levels of organization in society. But we can run through the central contents with the aforementioned in the back of the mind, the funding of this widespread of collectives can diversify the funding sources and support structures available for students.
Let’s take, for example, the case of a single mother pursuing a doctoral degree but without sufficient finances, these private, or public for that matter, funding streams could be the difference between the completion of the dissertation and becoming one of the massive attrition acolytes.
But this does not need to be as august. It can simply be, as per one of the recent articles, an improvement in the basic education provisions of the country, to serve those “under-served populations” who may lack a wide variety of internal or external resources to pursue and complete an education.
The special programmes in modern science and technology fields are important, because these are the future upcoming and ongoing economy. We live, somewhat, in a rundown science fiction future of the past.
The provisions in 1995 remain as important now, especially as some numbers have stalled science and technology disciplines. The distraction efforts have been, strangely but understandably (cynically), directed at the men with all-male movements to attain once more what they assumed should be theirs by birthright.
We can see this, as per the statements of Pankaj Mishra, in the rise of not full but mild fascist mysticism to mollify the men into their historical trend of obeisance to a male authority, a patriarch promising prior power and glory. It is zero-sum thinking rather than everyone gains through cooperation – a sum more than the parts – thinking.
–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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