Paragraph 110(a) 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): 2018/11/15
Strategic objective C.5.
Increase resources and monitor follow-up for women’s health
Actions to be taken
110. By Governments at all levels and, where appropriate, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations, especially women’s and youth organizations:
- Increase budgetary allocations for primary health care and social services, with adequate support for secondary and tertiary levels, and give special attention to the reproductive and sexual health of girls and women and give priority to health programmes in rural and poor urban areas;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Paragraph 10 of the Beijing Declaration examines the ways in which increased resources and monitoring of programs and initiatives for the rights of women can improve their overall health.
The forms of financial allocation can be the lifeblood for some of the important programs at the various levels of government for the increase in the programs and initiatives for women’s health and the health of the young.
Also, this continues into the need for some of the most sensitive areas having additional focus. These foci are the reproductive health and sexual health and women and girls.
Each of these provides a means by which to support those most vulnerable to poorer life circumstances without sufficient supports to have control over a) their own sexual health and b) their own reproduction.
It is a matter of if or when, under what circumstances, with who, and the financial and other life circumstances taken into account for the provision of the funding.
These amount to the freedom to move within a society having some minimal social support programs for the more vulnerable population in nations around the world: girls and women.
This vulnerability becomes even more exacerbated with rural women, young women, Indigenous women, and part-time or precariously employed & uneducated women.
Each of these factors should be considered of high importance to reduce the increased probability of poor life outcomes with less and less ability to take part in society in a significant manner because the finances or social supports simply do not exist.
This is a reiterated point throughout several sections of the Beijing Declaration as this is a needed area for improvement of international performance and the respect for and implementation of women’s rights.
–(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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