Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 107(j)-(l)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/06
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:
j. Ensure that health and nutritional information and training form an integral part of all adult literacy programmes and school curricula from the primary level;
k. Develop and undertake media campaigns and information and educational programmes that inform women and girls of the health and related risks of substance abuse and addiction and pursue strategies and programmes that discourage substance abuse and addiction and promote rehabilitation and recovery;
l. Devise and implement comprehensive and coherent programmes for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, a condition that predominantly affects women;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Looking at the means by which an individual child can have sufficient nutritional and caloric intake to learn properly, the early stipulations in this particular section retain a peculiar resonance with me, as the children without proper nutrition may live with certain forms of a cognitive deficit for the rest of their lives.
That is, the kids with good food can benefit more from the education available to them than others. This is one of the cheapest and most consequential means by which to empower children who become adults, citizens, and taxpayers in nations throughout the world.
This is an important notion built into the mention of the “adult literacy programmes and school curricula.” Consider the girls, or the boys, without adequate nutrition all over the world, for cheap, they couldSmae have a much healthier and longer life than otherwise if they have or are provided with the appropriate early life nutrition.
It takes proper knowledge on the part of the community around them as well, as the individuals within the community cannot be expected to have perfect or comprehensive knowledge of good nutrition within every specific locale around the world.
These health campaigns in early life nutrition should be connected to the education on the potential risks in substance abuse and addiction, which, as a Canadian hits home because it, can be seen in the opioid crisis striking many of the city centres now.
Thousands dead among the young population of this country and many other nations around the world. These education programs, in personal opinion, should not lie to the young while not working to scare the young.
There should be proper information with a harm reduction methodology in order to work to reduce the number of the addicted, then thrown to the side by society, and the dead and those living on the streets.
This isn’t cold but simply the factual nature of substance misuses. Proper education without simplistic messages of “Just say no!” should be discouraged while comprehensive educational programs and health provisions should be put in place for the health and wellness of the young.
Same with the late-in-life programs set forth in the osteoporosis educational paradigm. There is a particular importance in the older cohorts of women to be informed, aware, of the higher possibility of osteoporosis for them compared to men.
This has been true for a long time and needs serious consideration, as fractures and breakages of bone for the elderly are significant problems in advanced age and could cause a series of other consequences to late-life health connected to the (potential) need for surgery and additional care for the woman.
All connected to one another. The basic premise in this section is the focus on the proper education of the young and provision for them in terms of the appropriate nutrition in their diet.
The other is the focus on the, mostly, adolescent and middle-aged issue of drug misuse, overdoses, deaths connected to drugs, and so on, which, in the more modern period, pertains more to the need of a harm reduction focus to prevent some of the serious consequences of ill-health impacting the much of the world now.
It has been called out both by the UN, the WHO, major internnational figures, and major cities’ health authorities within my own country. In addition, there is also the emphasis on the specific health concerns of the elderly women in terms of the risks for osteoporosis, which is non-trivial – akin to a focus, but not equal to an emphasis on, men and heart disease.
All important and part of the general educational process towards a more enlightened global populace about health and wellness.
–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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