Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 214
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Equal rights of men and women are explicitly mentioned in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations. All the major international human rights instruments include sex as one of the grounds upon which States may not discriminate.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Fourth World Conference on Women
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Gender
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
Men
Women
Year
1995
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), para. 214.