Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 109(a)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/10
Strategic objective C.4.
Promote research and disseminate information on women’s health
Actions to be taken
109. By Governments, the United Nations system, health professions, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, donors, pharmaceutical industries and the mass media, as appropriate:
- Train researchers and introduce systems that allow for the use of data collected, analysed and disaggregated by, among other factors, sex and age, other established demographic criteria and socio-economic variables, in policy-making, as appropriate, planning, monitoring and evaluation;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Paragraph 109 of the Beijing Declaration continues in similar content and tone to the prior ones but with an emphasis on the data. There can’t be good plans, implementations, updates, maintenance, and furtherance of rights without good data, seriously.
The basic premise in this is the need for the international and national systems, including individual experts and organizations, to work together to collect data, analyze it, and then parse it.
The categories will be the standard ones including sex, age, SES status, and so on. Each of these could be easily tracked, probably, and then utilized to garner some estimates as to the efficacy of some interventions over others in the advancement and empowerment of women via their health and wellness.
The changes in what can be implemented and how it can be implemented seem important for the improved rollout of updates to extant programs and initiatives as well as the provisions of new ones oriented towards women’s fundamental human rights.
The three closing stages are “planning, monitoring and evaluation.” For those familiar with this, which I assume is many, the notion of planning comes from good data to orient the plans in a comprehensive and complete fashion for the immediate and even long-term issues.
The monitoring helps to know where things went wrong, could be done better, and, potentially, even how to do them better right off the bat.
The evaluative criteria would be the aspects of the demographics mentioned above – age, sex, SES status, and so on – to find the aspects most impactful for women’s health. Something like a priority rank-ordering of problems for solution planning could be produced from this.
Thus, data matters, especially in women’s matters.
–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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