Paragraphs 106(l)-(n) 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): 2018/10/31
Strategic objective C.1.
Increase women’s access throughout life cycle to appropriate, affordable and quality health care, information and related services
Actions to be taken
106. By Governments, in collaboration with non-governmental organizations and employers’ and workers’ organizations and with the support of international institutions:
l. Give particular attention to the needs of girls, especially the promotion of healthy behaviour, including physical activities; take specific measures for closing the gender gaps in morbidity and mortality where girls are disadvantaged, while achieving internationally approved goals for the reduction of infant and child mortality – specifically, by the year 2000, the reduction of mortality rates of infants and children under five years of age by one third of the 1990 level, or 50 to 70 per 1,000 live births, whichever is less; by the year 2015 an infant mortality rate below 35 per 1,000 live births and an under-five mortality rate below 45 per 1,000;
m. Ensure that girls have continuing access to necessary health and nutrition information and services as they mature, to facilitate a healthful transition from childhood to adulthood;
n. Develop information, programmes and services to assist women to understand and adapt to changes associated with ageing and to address and treat the health needs of older women, paying particular attention to those who are physically or psychologically dependent;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The health and wellbeing of girls is highly important in the moment for the girls but also for the women that these girls become. Some of these concerns and issues should take a gendered lens in order to fulfil the rights obligations of the international and national community.
For example, if we look at the reduction in infant and child mortality, ignoring for this conversational article the focus on the “year 2000,” the focus is on its reduction, obviously. But, interestingly, this has, likely happened, everywhere except in cases of war or reversals in the appropriate health technologies and information being provided to girls.
The promotion of health behaviour is not just about physical behaviour but about the sexual-psychological phenomena of intimate relations. The information to make informed choices. The technologies to prevent unwanted or unplanned pregnancies.
This links to section (m) with the ensurance of women having the appropriate health and nutrition information. As girls transition into women, physically and psychologically, this can be a basis for a healthier transition rather than a stunted one.
The programs and educational initiatives can be important in this with women understanding the processes and problems that come with time, with wear tear, or aging.
Older women should an area of emphasis too. Whether a younger women learning about it, or an older woman becoming more informed about what she is experiencing or what to expect, it is these circumstances in which the physical and psychological dependence will, still statistically, being a familial and community burden of younger women and increasing decrepitude and disability as an issue of older women.
So it goes.
–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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