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Title | Date added | Template | Body | Legal status | Document type | Year | Document code | Original document | Paragraph text | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective G2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Increase women's capacity to participate in decision-making and leadership |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 195a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments, national bodies, the private sector, political parties, trade unions, employers' organizations, subregional and regional bodies, non-governmental and international organizations and educational institutions:] Provide leadership and self-esteem training to assist women and girls, particularly those with special needs, women with disabilities and women belonging to racial and ethnic minorities to strengthen their self-esteem and to encourage them to take decision-making positions; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 196 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | National machineries for the advancement of women have been established in almost every Member State to, inter alia, design, promote the implementation of, execute, monitor, evaluate, advocate and mobilize support for policies that promote the advancement of women. National machineries are diverse in form and uneven in their effectiveness, and in some cases have declined. Often marginalized in national government structures, these mechanisms are frequently hampered by unclear mandates, lack of adequate staff, training, data and sufficient resources, and insufficient support from national political leadership. |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 201b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [A national machinery for the advancement of women is the central policy- coordinating unit inside government. Its main task is to support government- wide mainstreaming of a gender-equality perspective in all policy areas. The necessary conditions for an effective functioning of such national machineries include:] Institutional mechanisms or processes that facilitate, as appropriate, decentralized planning, implementation and monitoring with a view to involving non-governmental organizations and community organizations from the grass-roots upwards; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective H1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Create or strengthen national machineries and other governmental bodies |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 203b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments:] Based on a strong political commitment, create a national machinery, where it does not exist, and strengthen, as appropriate, existing national machineries, for the advancement of women at the highest possible level of government; it should have clearly defined mandates and authority; critical elements would be adequate resources and the ability and competence to influence policy and formulate and review legislation; among other things, it should perform policy analysis, undertake advocacy, communication, coordination and monitoring of implementation; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 203c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments:] Provide staff training in designing and analysing data from a gender perspective; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective H2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Integrate gender perspectives in legislation, public policies, programmes and projects |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective L2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against girls |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 276d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments:] Take steps so that tradition and religion and their expressions are not a basis for discrimination against girls. |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 277a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments and, as appropriate, international and non-governmental organizations:] Promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impede the schooling of married and/or pregnant girls and young mothers, including, as appropriate, affordable and physically accessible child-care facilities and parental education to encourage those who have responsibilities for the care of their children and siblings during their school years to return to, or continue with, and complete schooling; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 277d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments and, as appropriate, international and non-governmental organizations:] Develop policies and programmes, giving priority to formal and informal education programmes that support girls and enable them to acquire knowledge, develop self-esteem and take responsibility for their own lives; and place special focus on programmes to educate women and men, especially parents, on the importance of girls' physical and mental health and well-being, including the elimination of discrimination against girls in food allocation, early marriage, violence against girls, female genital mutilation, child prostitution, sexual abuse, rape and incest. |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective L3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Promote and protect the rights of the girl child and increase awareness of her needs and potential |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective L4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Eliminate discrimination against girls in education, skills development and training |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 279f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments:] Take actions to ensure that female teachers and professors have the same possibilities and status as male teachers and professors. |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective L5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Eliminate discrimination against girls in health and nutrition |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 281d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Establish peer education and outreach programmes with a view to strengthening individual and collective action to reduce the vulnerability of girls to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, as agreed to in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and as established in the report of that Conference, recognizing the parental roles referred to in paragraph 267 of the present Platform for Action |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 281e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Ensure education and dissemination of information to girls, especially adolescent girls, regarding the physiology of reproduction, reproductive and sexual health, as agreed to in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and as established in the report of that Conference, responsible family planning practice, family life, reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV infection and AIDS prevention, recognizing the parental roles referred to in paragraph 267; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective L6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Eliminate the economic exploitation of child labour and protect young girls at work |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 353 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Adequate financial resources should be committed at the international level for the implementation of the Platform for Action in the developing countries, particularly in Africa and the least developed countries. Strengthening national capacities in developing countries to implement the Platform for Action will require striving for the fulfilment of the agreed target of 0.7 per cent of the gross national product of developed countries for overall official development assistance as soon as possible, as well as increasing the share of funding for activities designed to implement the Platform for Action. Furthermore, countries involved in development cooperation should conduct a critical analysis of their assistance programmes so as to improve the quality and effectiveness of aid through the integration of a gender approach. |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 356 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Implementation of the Platform for Action in the countries with economies in transition will require continued international cooperation and assistance. The organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, including the technical and sectoral agencies, should facilitate the efforts of those countries in designing and implementing policies and programmes for the advancement of women. To this end, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank should be invited to assist those efforts. |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 165i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments:] Facilitate, at appropriate levels, more open and transparent budget processes; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 165j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | [By Governments:] Revise and implement national policies that support the traditional savings, credit and lending mechanisms for women; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective F2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Facilitate women's equal access to resources, employment, markets and trade |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 360 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Recognizing the roles of United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies, in particular the special roles of UNIFEM and INSTRAW, in the promotion of the empowerment of women, and therefore in the implementation of the Platform for Action within their respective mandates, inter alia, in research, training and information activities for the advancement of women as well as technical and financial assistance to incorporate a gender perspective in development efforts, the resources provided by the international community need to be sufficient and should be maintained at an adequate level. |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 361 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the United Nations system in its efforts to promote the advancement of women and to enhance its capacity to further the objectives of the Platform for Action, there is a need to renew, reform and revitalize various parts of the United Nations system, especially the Division for the Advancement of Women of the United Nations Secretariat, as well as other units and subsidiary bodies that have a specific mandate to promote the advancement of women. In this regard, relevant governing bodies within the United Nations system are encouraged to give special consideration to the effective implementation of the Platform for Action and to review their policies, programmes, budgets and activities in order to achieve the most effective and efficient use of funds to this end. Allocation of additional resources from within the United Nations regular budget in order to implement the Platform for Action will also be necessary. |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | The Fourth World Conference on Women, |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Having met in Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995, |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Adopts the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which are annexed to the present resolution; |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth World Conference on Women | Negotiated soft law | Declaration / Confererence outcome document | Recommends to the General Assembly of the United Nations at its fiftieth session that it endorse the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action as adopted by the Conference. |
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