Eliminating discrimination against women in political and public life with a focus on political transition 2013, para. 16
Paragraphe- Original document
- Document type
- Rapport des procédures spéciales
- Paragraph text
At the same time, international commitment to fulfilling women's equal right to political participation has grown substantially. The 1993 World Conference on Human Rights and its outcome document, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, whose twentieth anniversary is being commemorated in 2013, gave recognition to women's rights as human rights. In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women and its outcome document, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, became the catalyst for governments around the world to introduce special measures, such as quotas for women's political representation, and propelled the doubling of the global average of such representation in less than two decades. Further, the Security Council made an historic breakthrough in 2000 when it adopted its resolution 1325 (2000), with a view to enhancing the role of women and the gender perspective in conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
- Document legal status
- Droit souple non-négocié
- Document body
- Procédures Spéciales: Groupe de travail sur la discrimination à l’égard des femmes et des filles
- Document means of adoption
- S/O
- Thèmes
- Égalité & Inclusion
- Genre
- Gouvernance & l'état de droit
- Humanitaire
- Personnes concernées
- Femmes
- Document year
- 2013
- Type de paragraphe
- Autre
- Reference
- WG Discrimination Against Women, Report to the HRC (2013), A/HRC/23/50, para. 16.
- Paragraph number
- 16