Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 107(g)-(i)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/04
Strategic objective C.2.
Strengthen preventive programmes that promote women’s health
Actions to be taken
107. By Governments, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations, the mass media, the private sector and relevant international organizations, including United Nations bodies, as appropriate:
g. Recognize the specific needs of adolescents and implement specific appropriate programmes, such as education and information on sexual and reproductive health issues and on sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, taking into account the rights of the child and the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents as stated in paragraph 107 (e) above;
h. Develop policies that reduce the disproportionate and increasing burden on women who have multiple roles within the family and the community by providing them with adequate support and programmes from health and social services;
i. Adopt regulations to ensure that the working conditions, including remuneration and promotion of women at all levels of the health system, are non-discriminatory and meet fair and professional standards to enable them to work effectively;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The recognition of the needs of the young, or the acknowledgement of unique requirements in their development, is important in the respect of the rights of the child. The education system should set forth in order to empower them.
The power to be informed with empirically grounded and rational truths about the world and then make informed choices about their own lives. This is freedom. This is also the responsibility of the older generations, the government, and the family in the proper education of the nation’s young.
This is particularly consequential and acutely important on the issues of sexuality and reproduction. The burden on the child’s life and on the healthcare system with bad sex education leading to the transmission of STIs and STDs is non-trivial.
The policies and political conversation should work within this framework. Bad information leading to misinformed young people and, hence, negative consequences to the individuals and the society; good information leading to information youth and, thus, positive consequences to the individuals and the society.
But it should also be born in mind: women work within a more difficult situation post-birth and family formation, as they work, still, in the home, with the care of the children, and bear this burden while continuing to increasingly dominate the education and work world.
It is not a glass ceiling for men or women at the bottom, but a glass ceiling for women at the top and a motivational ceiling – self-imposed for a variety of reasons – of men from the bottom to the top.
The work to expand health policies and include more people within the sphere of consideration of health should emerge in both the health and social services. While, at the same time, the inclusion of regulations out in the professional world can improve the conditions for women, the outcomes for women.
One of the most specific points is about women working within the healthcare system. The focus is on the provisions of “remuneration and promotion” of women in order for them to thrive in the workplace and the world.
More finances, more prestige and status, women can begin to attain some of the vaunted benefits held by most men at present, though women continue to enter into and will most likely dominate middle management as they do with the part-time, low-status, and menial jobs with low death risks.
The boundaries and borders, or regulations, set for the women in the professional realm can help be done through the adoption of strict professional standards for women to be able to work in an effective way: to complete their work in a timely manner with a high-quality output.
–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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