guidelines for a comprehensive plan to overcome constraints and increase such
cooperation;
2.
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a report for the Commission
at its thirty-eighth session on institutional arrangements for the
implementation of the Platform for Action and for the programme on advancement
of women and an appraisal of options for considering the agenda item at the
Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace.
Annex
STRUCTURE OF THE PLATFORM FOR ACTION
I.
Statement of mission
To accelerate, through concerted and intensive action in the coming years,
the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement
of Women 1/ in critical areas so that equality becomes a reality by the
twenty-first century.
II.
Strategic diagnosis of critical areas of concern
[This part should be substantiated by objective,
concise and quantitative data.]
Inequality in the sharing of power and decision-making at all levels;
Insufficient mechanisms at all levels to promote the advancement of women;
Lack of awareness of, and commitment to, internationally and nationally
recognized women’s rights;
Poverty;
Inequality in women’s access to and participation in the definition of
economic structures and policies and the productive process itself;
Inequality in access to education, health, employment and other means of
maximizing awareness of rights and the use of their capacities;
Violence against women;
Effects on women of continuing national and international armed or other
kinds of conflicts.
[In each of the critical areas, the diagnosis should take into account
women having special concerns such as refugee, displaced and migrant
women and women living in conflict areas.]
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