Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 110(d)-(e)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/21
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:
d. Develop goals and time-frames, where appropriate, for improving women’s health and for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programmes, based on gender-impact assessments using qualitative and quantitative data disaggregated by sex, age, other established demographic criteria and socio-economic variables;
e. Establish, as appropriate, ministerial and inter-ministerial mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of women’s health policy and programme reforms and establish, as appropriate, high-level focal points in national planning authorities responsible for monitoring to ensure that women’s health concerns are mainstreamed in all relevant government agencies and programmes.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Paragraph 110, in sections (d) and (e), of the Beijing Declaration deal with not only the targeted objectives/concrete goals but also the timelines in which to do them.
It speaks to the areas in which women’s rights are not fully respected and, in fact, where, unfortunately, this is important and integral for the social and economic development of societies.
That is to say, the increased respect for and implementation of women’s rights is a boon to the socio-economic livelihood of nations around the world. This is an international generalization based on the empirical evidence for the moral rightness, economic soundness, and social benefits of the moves for the advancement and empowerment of women.
This includes, as has in part been discussed before, the planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating of the programs and initiatives that are done for the explicit benefit of women.
It has not, even in 1995, been done haphazardly in most cases. There is a focus on the forethought and analysis. The forethought to set about a plan to be set in motion, eventually – potentially competing among others for viability based on feasibility of the timeline and available resources.
But this requires some things mentioned in prior articles that include the development of criteria for evaluation of the efficacy of the programs and initiatives, as noted: “sex, age”, socioeconomic status, educational level, and so on.
These demographic variables should not be ignored as they can be an important factor in the overall performance of the program over time and for the implementations of its improvements.
The ministerial and inter-ministerial references simply relate to the government and the inter-governmental relationships to work on, what is seen as, common international problems in relation to women.
Thus, the basic premise in this section deals with the healthy implementation of the programs for women’s health. This is in regards to policy and to programs. The purpose is to use the authority of government and “inter-ministerial” cooperation for the mainstreaming of women’s health within and between nations.
–(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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