Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 111(c)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/29
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:
c. Give higher priority to women’s health and develop mechanisms for coordinating and implementing the health objectives of the Platform for Action and relevant international agreements to ensure progress.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The sense of justice within the women’s rights sentiments in the Golden Rule, in the equality aspects, found in John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill link to utilitarian foundations of a rightness-wrongness axis linked to the greatest good for the greatest number, where this becomes particularly salient with the inclusion of the other half of the speices as worth moral consideration – somewhat of a novelty in world history; hence, the Mills get quoted quite a bit.
In regards to paragraph 111 section (c) of the Beijing Declaration, there remains the fundamental notion of the equality of women within the framework of increasing rights for women. The universalization or the democratization of rights as the extension of the Golden Rule to women, to regard women as persons, and, therefore, their health and wellness of equal relevance and need for consideration with the men in societies.
In fact, with the general disparities in the consideration of the health of the men and the women in society, the maintenance of thought about men’s wellbeing and then the raising of women’s can feel like greater parity for many women and then decline for many men. It becomes a subjective or relative evaluation of provisions.
But the emphasis here is the higher priority for women’s health, probably for a series of reasons. One of them is the increase in the consideration for greater parity. Another is the unique circumstances more women than men face. For example, the gestation of the next generation in contrast to men. The health objectives set forth in the Platform for Action retain import now.
However, these do not remain the main sets of reflections about the overall health and wellness concerns of women, as science and medicine advances and the conversations about women’s equality with men advances then further ethical advances come into awareness with the widened domain of ethical discourse, of moral consideration.
–(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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