Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraphs 106(w)-(y)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/02
Strategic objective C.1.
Increase women’s access throughout life cycle to appropriate, affordable and quality health care, information and related services
Actions to be taken
106. By Governments, in collaboration with non-governmental organizations and employers’ and workers’ organizations and with the support of international institutions:
w. Promote and ensure household and national food security, as appropriate, and implement programmes aimed at improving the nutritional status of all girls and women by implementing the commitments made in the Plan of Action on Nutrition of the International Conference on Nutrition,/17 including a reduction world wide of severe and moderate malnutrition among children under the age of five by one half of 1990 levels by the year 2000, giving special attention to the gender gap in nutrition, and a reduction in iron deficiency anaemia in girls and women by one third of the 1990 levels by the year 2000;
x. Ensure the availability of and universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation and put in place effective public distribution systems as soon as possible;
y. Ensure full and equal access to health-care infrastructure and services for indigenous women.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Food insecurity can make people desperate and commit acts of desperation. The need for robust creation of food, which is done, needs to coincide with robust transport around the world, which is not done or, at least, efficiently.
It strikes at the heart – always found this an interesting phrase – of the problems for girls and women. It hits at the stomach – a bit more apt – of the proper development of girls and women. In that, without good food, nutritional intake, girls will not develop as fully as they could otherwise.
It is in this sense that the potential for severe to moderate malnutrition is a serious concern when looking at the health status of girls and women compared to the rest of the population. A malnourished cannot perform as fully in school and becomes a woman unable to fulfill her true potential.
This gender gap in nutrition can, and should be closed., also with regards to the universalization of the access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation. These are not huge requests, as the technology exists and, likely, the distribution networks exist and, hence, simply need some social activism and political will to advance these efforts.
These provisions should be part of the mainstay of the “public distribution systems” as this would improve the health and wellness of the vast majority of the population, and lower the burdens on other infrastructure in the medium and the long term.
Following this, we can see the respect for the full and equal access to the relevant healthcare systems for women of Indigenous origin, of 3-3.5% of the global population; thus, non-trivial and important to be born in mind.
–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 (1993).
- Beijing Declaration(1995).
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000).
- 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.
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