Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 102

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Paragraph text
Women, like men, particularly in rural areas and poor urban areas, are increasingly exposed to environmental health hazards owing to environmental catastrophes and degradation. Women have a different susceptibility to various environmental hazards, contaminants and substances and they suffer different consequences from exposure to them.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Fourth World Conference on Women
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Men
  • Women
Year
1995
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), para. 102.
Paragraph focus
Women and health
Paragraph number
102