Beijing Platform for Action. Paragraph 154
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2019/09/25
154. Women migrant workers, including domestic workers, contribute to the economy of the sending country through their remittances and also to the economy of the receiving country through their participation in the labour force. However, in many receiving countries, migrant women experience higher levels of unemployment compared with both non-migrant workers and male migrant workers.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Paragraph 154 focuses on the domains of specified workers in the world. Its domain or universe of discourses migrant women workers and domestic women workers. Those who “contribute… to the economy of the sending country through their remittances.” Then they benefit the receiving country because of the participation in the labour force as well.In this, the simplified image can be seen. Women work in the country or outside of the country and contribute to the home country finances or the foreign country due to the remittances or participation in the workforce. In fact, this trend has probably greatly expanded in the era of the rise of women, especially in the professional domains of women attaining more education, calling out bad men, and looking for the more nuanced forms of equality and justice.The problem, as has been the case, and as stipulated, is “migrant women” undergoing disproportionate biases in the form of unemployment compared to the “non-migrant workers and male migrant workers.” These differences eschew principles of gender equality and undergird issues of some systematic biases between the gender-egalitarian strivings of the international systems and the trend in so many societies of the time, and less so now, to keep gender roles fixed in stature within the domains of work as well.As should be noted, migrant women workers are in a vulnerable place too. Their precarious status in another country and in employment rights may leave them in worse conditions than mere considerations of lesser income on the job and in equal access to jobs in another country. All these are serious considerations for women migrant workers.–(Updated 2020-07-07, only use the updated listing, please) Not all nations, organizations, societies, or individuals accept the proposals of the United Nations; one can find similar statements in other documents, conventions, declarations and so on, with the subsequent statements of equality or women’s rights, and the important days and campaigns devoted to the rights of women and girls too:Documents
- 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).Some general declarations (not individual Declaration or set of them but announcement) included the UN Decade for Women (1976-1985).Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) and the Optional Protocol (1999).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), 2242 (2015), and 2467 (2019).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
Strategic Aims
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, emphasis on the entirety of the goals with a strong focus on Goal 52015 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.The Spotlight Initiative as another important piece of work, as a joint venture between the European Union and the United Nations.
Celebratory Days
- February 6, International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation is observed.February 11, International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed.June 19, Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict is observed.June 23, is International Widows’ Day is observed.August 26, International Women’s Equality Day is observed.October 11, International Day of the Girl Child is observed.October 15, International Day of Rural Women is observed.November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is observed.
Guidelines and Campaigns
- Gender Inclusive Guidelines, Toolbox, & United Nations System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity.Say No, UNiTE, UNiTE to End Violence against Women, Orange the World: #HearMeToo (2018), and the 16 days of activism.
Women and Men Women’s Rights Campaigners
- Abby Kelley FosterAngela DavisAnna Julia CooperAudre LordeBarbara SmithBell HooksClaudette ColvinCombahee River CollectiveElla BakerFannie Lou HamerHarriet TubmanIda B. WellsLucy StoneMaria StewartMatilda Joslyn GageRosa ParksShirley ChisholmSojourner TruthSusan B. Anthony
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