Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 111(b)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/27
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:
b. Provide appropriate material, financial and logistical assistance to youth non-governmental organizations in order to strengthen them to address youth concerns in the area of health, including sexual and reproductive health;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The inclusion of women within the decision-making and power-centres of influence within societies remains novel in the history of the world, especially within the additional reflective piece of information with the current global civilization, this global village, being the most vast and all-encompassing information-based civilization ever seen in the history of the human species.
This permission, and the moral rightness, of women within the “material, financial and logistical” decision-making frameworks of the international system remain as important as ever. It becomes something of import for the health and wellness of individual women.
It also becomes something relevant to the flourishing of the economies of nations. Some of the most impactful times in one’s life is in the earliest moments, which are childhood and adolescence. The sexual and general health and wellness of young women is the focus here.
The ability to garner proper information and knowledge about reproductive and sexual health can mean a life as a teen and young adult parent and one in which the young woman is able to garner some post-secondary education prior to the choosing to become a mother or nor.
The strengthen of the young NGOs is part and parcel of this effort.
–(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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