Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 110(b)-(c)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/15
Strategic objective C.5.
Increase resources and monitor follow-up for women’s health
Actions to be taken
110. By Governments at all levels and, where appropriate, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations, especially women’s and youth organizations:
b. Develop innovative approaches to funding health services through promoting community participation and local financing; increase, where necessary, budgetary allocations for community health centres and community-based programmes and services that address women’s specific health needs;
c. Develop local health services, promoting the incorporation of gender-sensitive community-based participation and self-care and specially designed preventive health programmes;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Paragraph 110 of the Beijing Declaration focuses on the innovative approaches to the advancement of women’s rights in the community. It is the basis of health services mentioned in the previous article.
The ability of women to have access to a variety of reproductive and sexual health provisions for the improvement in their livelihoods is essential to the respect for and implementation of women’s rights.
In addition, there is the need to work on making the older technologies cheaper, more widely accessible, and, possibly, in some manner mass-produced for easy delivery to nations in the world without sufficient health provisions for women’s needs.
The budget set-asides are for the possibility of women to be able to live their lives as freely as the men in the nation, which, probably, includes the girls living as well as, or as equally as well as more properly, as the boys in their lives.
The health and community centres can be important adjuncts to keep this going. But these should not be the sole means by which individual citizens empower themselves.
They can self-empower or have the promise from the international community of self-empowerment, but then to make the promise and then not provide the necessary resources to do so, or move towards doing so, is criminal.
There are girls- and women-specific programs. It is the promise plus the provision of the resources for the needs of women and girls that is central to the Beijing Declaration, which means, as has not been done, keeping the needs, wants, desires and statistical requirements of women and girls in mind as much as the boys and men – and, in fact, more as the next generations depend more on women than on others.
This comes out in the sociocultural phenomenon of more women taking on the majority of the childcare and home care responsibilities. But this can, in part, be tackled with a gendered lens on the solutions to the problems of the world.
In fact, these can be one of the main, basic premises of the programs set forth for the increase in the equality of the sexes through specialized programs and initiatives with an innovative research perspective – and, hopefully, eventual productions – that can create a more equitable world the helpful additions of modernized technologies. But this requires money.
Sometimes, a big investment at first and smaller ones as time goes onward. But the focus is to reduce costs not only with the innovation but also with the special designs of the preventive care for women.
This can, in the end, reduce overall costs, especially where it can be the most impactful in the less developed nations without sufficient resources to adequately provide for the healthcare and reproductive health needs, in particular, of women.
–(Updated 2018-11-10 based on further research) 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 and the optional protocol (1993).
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), Five-year review of progress (2000), 10-year review in 2005, the 15-year review in 2010, and the 20-year review in 2015.
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), and the UN Security Council additional resolutions on women, peace and security: 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013), 2122 (2013), and 2242 (2015).
- 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.
- UN Women’s strategic plan, 2018–2021
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
- 2015 agenda with 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (169 targets for the end to poverty, combatting inequalities, and so on, by 2030). The SDGs were preceded by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000 to 2015.
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