Paragraphs 106(u)-(v) 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): 2018/11/02
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:
u. Rationalize drug procurement and ensure a reliable, continuous supply of high-quality pharmaceutical, contraceptive and other supplies and equipment, using the WHO Model List of Essential Drugs as a guide, and ensure the safety of drugs and devices through national regulatory drug approval processes;
v. Provide improved access to appropriate treatment and rehabilitation services for women substance abusers and their families;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The reliable provisions among governments, NGOs, and other organizations are important for the improved health and wellbeing of the women around the world. This, inevitably, yields benefits not only to the women throughout their entire lifecycle but also for the children most will birth and raise, the families that develop as a result, and, thus, the communities and societies too.
As an aside, we should collectively get serious about the need to provide for the needs of women in terms of unpaid labour or work with childcare and homecare. It is a non-trivial aspect of the work life of women. Indeed, one can see this as a situation in which the work appears to never end for women.
A rational program for drug procurement – even a national pharmacare program – would be a good means by which to improve the health and wellness of the lives of women. This can coincide with following the various drug guides and research and safety measures to ensure safe development and delivery of drugs too.
Now, the improved access in treatment for women and rehabilitation is also another aspect of healthcare – one of the minor but non-trivial ones – in which women will be coming for help, because they may be substance abusers or, more often, will be in a home or household with one or more male substance abusers, which impacts the larger family unit and the health of the community.
It is a situation in which to best manage their problems with the support of the social service programs on offer around the nation in which they happen to live.
–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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