effective international control including disarmament of all types of
weapons of mass destruction;
·
Work to prevent and put an end to aggression and all forms of armed
conflict, thereby promoting a culture of peace.
III.
HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN
The Commission on the Status of Women
Reaffirms the Beijing Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World
Conference on Women,31 in particular chapter IV.I on the human rights of women,
and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World
Conference on Human Rights,32
Recommends that the Commission on Human Rights give particular attention to
the economic and social rights of women in any discussions it may have at its
fifty-fourth session on the question of the appointment and mandate of a special
rapporteur on economic, social and cultural rights, or a specific aspect
thereof; and invites the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on the
Status of Women in 1999 on decisions taken by the Commission on Human Rights on
this issue, and further recommends that the rapporteur on economic, social and
cultural rights, if appointed, should make his or her reports available to the
Commission on the Status of Women,
Proposes, in order to accelerate the implementation of the strategic
objectives of chapter IV.I of the Platform for Action:
A.
Creation and development of an environment conducive to women’s
enjoyment of their human rights and awareness-raising
Actions to be taken by Governments, non-governmental organizations,
employers, trade unions, the private sector and other actors in civil
society, as appropriate:
·
Ensure universal awareness by all persons, women and men, girls and
boys of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and
children, including the girl child, through comprehensive human rights
education in accordance with the United Nations Decade for Human
Rights Education, and create and promote a culture of human rights,
development and peace;
·
Encourage and support broad-based national and community-based
dialogues that include women and men, and girls and boys, from diverse
backgrounds, on the meaning of human rights, on the obligations
thereby created and on gender-specific discrimination and violations;
·
Ensure that work, including, inter alia, work by treaty bodies within
their mandates to develop an understanding of the gender dimensions of
31
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing,
4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I,
resolution 1, annex II.
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