Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 111(a)
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
111. By Governments, the United Nations and its specialized agencies, international financial institutions, bilateral donors and the private sector, as appropriate:
- Formulate policies favourable to investment in women’s health and, where appropriate, increase allocations for such investment;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Here the Beijing Declaration continues with the background perspective of the equality of the sexes or the genders, more broadly, as an important aspect of the work of the international community.
The formulations or brainstorming of policies can come from a few locations including the top-down methodology as well as the bottom-up. Take, for example, the grassroots method that comes from the popular activism of the communities within a society.
This is non-trivial. As some of the most important changes forced on the governments with racist or sexist policies, including the lack of the right to vote for women and the right to vote for minorities within several semi-democracies, by the mass activism of the conscious objector citizens to the current systems in place, these are powerful catalytic forces in the world.
Even, as noted astutely by the wonderful Rebecca Traister, the simple power of women’s anger or righteous indignation as the basis for the important social movements in the United States of America alone.
The responsible use of power can also be an important source of moral guidance and work within the nation, as those representatives of the better conscience of the nation can work to improve the material conditions of the women and the families of the nation.
It may not be a big trumpet affair, but simply the quiet workings of people of conscience working for the betterment of the society in which they inhabit.
–(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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