Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 124k

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[By Governments:] Adopt all appropriate measures, especially in the field of education, to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, and to eliminate prejudices, customary practices and all other practices based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes and on stereotyped roles for men and women;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Fourth World Conference on Women
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Men
  • Women
Year
1995
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Other
Reference
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), para. 124k.
Paragraph focus
Violence against women
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Actions D1
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124k