Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 52
Paragraphe- Paragraph text
- In too many countries, social welfare systems do not take sufficient account of the specific conditions of women living in poverty, and there is a tendency to scale back the services provided by such systems. The risk of falling into poverty is greater for women than for men, particularly in old age, where social security systems are based on the principle of continuous remunerated employment. In some cases, women do not fulfil this requirement because of interruptions in their work, due to the unbalanced distribution of remunerated and unremunerated work. Moreover, older women also face greater obstacles to labour-market re-entry.
- Status juridique
- Negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Type de document
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Mode d'adoption
- Consensus
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- Older persons
- Women
- Année
- 1995
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), para. 52.
- Paragraph focus
- Women and poverty
- Paragraph number
- 52
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