Paragraph 109(d)-(e) of the Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/11/11
Strategic objective C.4.
Promote research and disseminate information on women’s health
Actions to be taken
109. By Governments, the United Nations system, health professions, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, donors, pharmaceutical industries and the mass media, as appropriate:
d. Increase financial and other support from all sources for preventive, appropriate biomedical, behavioural, epidemiological and health service research on women’s health issues and for research on the social, economic and political causes of women’s health problems, and their consequences, including the impact of gender and age inequalities, especially with respect to chronic and non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases and conditions, cancers, reproductive tract infections and injuries, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, domestic violence, occupational health, disabilities, environmentally related health problems, tropical diseases and health aspects of ageing;
e. Inform women about the factors which increase the risks of developing cancers and infections of the reproductive tract, so that they can make informed decisions about their health;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The Beijing Declaration here is emphasizing the need to provide for the needs of women’s health within the a wide range of fields. It lists most of the relevant broad-based fields relevant to women’s health.
Furthermore, there is the focus on research once more. The ability to research with the most advanced technology remains an advanced industrial economy activity. The equipment and the personnel training is extraordinarily expensive.
Developing or poorer nations will, typically, lack the appropriate amount of resources to conduct the research. Without explicit statement, this is a colder reality about research into these various areas.
However, the provisions with financal assistance and resources relevant for education and prevention-of-sexual-diseases tools can help reduce the probability of widespread infection in poorer populations.
It is also cheaper than the research training for the personnel and for the equipment. In this, we have a particularly important message implied for the wealthier nations.
Based on international obligations and power, and resources, it is incumbent on them to conduct research and provide contraceptive resources in the best interests of all, to reduce the potential human costs in not doing the research and providing the sexual health tools.
The educational aspect, as noted, should also incorporate the facts about infection and cancer risks for the women. In this, women’s health is the focus baseed on the potentials for heavily negative harms to them.
But this is also about women to be persons, as per the UDHR, with autonomy, choice, freedoms, and those guaranteed by the stipulations of international documents.
–(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 reviewin 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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