Paragraphs 105 of the Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/10/28
105. In addressing inequalities in health status and unequal access to and inadequate health-care services between women and men, Governments and other actors should promote an active and visible policy of mainstreaming a gender perspective in all policies and programmes, so that, before decisions are taken, an analysis is made of the effects for women and men, respectively.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The issues for the health of women remains an international issue, while also retaining an ongoing urgency as this relates to several other concerns of human rights activists. For example, the recent moderate decline in access to the reproductive health rights of women.
This, of course, speaks to the international view about abortion with the right to autonomy and individual choice of women around the world, about what happens to and with their own bodies including in the case of choosing, or not, to bring new life into the world.
There is a gendered lens here. it should be born in mind, as it is an important lens to see some of the disproportionately negative care for women at crucial times in their medical lives – in their times of care.
The governments and other relevant actors should work to include a gendered perspective on the issues of healthcare and its proper provision. This should before decisions are made, prior to the medical changes.
There needs to be an analysis of the areas of greatest need, as an example, to then determine where the changes most urgently and comprehensively need to be made in the medical arenas of various countries, in order to best serve the needs of women.
–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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