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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 261
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- Gender-biased educational processes, including curricula, educational materials and practices, teachers' attitudes and classroom interaction, reinforce existing gender inequalities.
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 279b
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- [By Governments:] Take steps to integrate functional literacy and numeracy programmes, particularly for out-of-school girls in development programmes;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 267
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- The International Conference on Population and Development recognized, in paragraph 7.3 of the Programme of Action, that "full attention should be given to the promotion of mutually respectful and equitable gender relations and particularly to meeting the educational and service needs of adolescents to enable them to deal in a positive and responsible way with their sexuality", taking into account the rights of the child to access to information, privacy, confidentiality, respect and informed consent, as well as the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents and legal guardians to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and in conformity with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. In all actions concerning children, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. Support should be given to integral sexual education for young people with parental support and guidance that stresses the responsibility of males for their own sexuality and fertility and that help them exercise their responsibilities.
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 88b
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- [By Governments, educational institutions and communities:] Provide support for child care and other services to enable mothers to continue their schooling;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 280d
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- [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Promote the full and equal participation of girls in extracurricular activities, such as sports, drama and cultural activities.
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 280c
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- [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Ensure access to appropriate education and skills-training for girl children with disabilities for their full participation in life;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 280b
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- [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Provide education to increase girls' knowledge and skills related to the functioning of economic, financial and political systems;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 284a
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- [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Provide access for girls to training, information and the media on social, cultural, economic and political issues and enable them to articulate their views;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 283b
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- [By Governments and, as appropriate, international and non-governmental organizations:] Take appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the girl child, in the household and in society, from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 283a
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- [By Governments and, as appropriate, international and non-governmental organizations:] Take effective actions and measures to enact and enforce legislation to protect the safety and security of girls from all forms of violence at work, including training programmes and support programmes, and take measures to eliminate incidents of sexual harassment of girls in educational and other institutions;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 275b
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- [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Generate social support for the enforcement of laws on the minimum legal age for marriage, in particular by providing educational opportunities for girls.
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 272
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- All barriers must therefore be eliminated to enable girls without exception to develop their full potential and skills through equal access to education and training, nutrition, physical and mental health care and related information.
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 130e
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- [By Governments of countries of origin, transit and destination, regional and international organizations, as appropriate:] Develop educational and training programmes and policies and consider enacting legislation aimed at preventing sex tourism and trafficking, giving special emphasis to the protection of young women and children
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 83s
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- [By Governments, educational authorities and other educational and academic institutions:] Remove all barriers to access to formal education for pregnant adolescents and young mothers, and support the provision of child care and other support services where necessary.
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 80b
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- [By Governments:] By the year 2000, provide universal access to basic education and ensure completion of primary education by at least 80 per cent of primary school-age children; close the gender gap in primary and secondary school education by the year 2005; provide universal primary education in all countries before the year 2015;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 281f
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- [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Include health and nutritional training as an integral part of literacy programmes and school curricula starting at the primary level for the benefit of the girl child;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 281c
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- [By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:] Strengthen and reorient health education and health services, particularly primary health care programmes, including sexual and reproductive health, and design quality health programmes that meet the physical and mental needs of girls and that attend to the needs of young, expectant and nursing mothers;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 279e
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- [By Governments:] Develop training programmes and materials for teachers and educators, raising awareness about their own role in the educational process, with a view to providing them with effective strategies for gender- sensitive teaching;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 279d
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- [By Governments:] Increase enrolment and improve retention rates of girls by allocating appropriate budgetary resources and by enlisting the support of the community and parents through campaigns and flexible school schedules, incentives, scholarships, access programmes for out-of-school girls and other measures;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 279c
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- [By Governments:] Promote human rights education in educational programmes and include in human rights education the fact that the human rights of women and the girl child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 277b
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- [By Governments and, as appropriate, international and non-governmental organizations:] Encourage educational institutions and the media to adopt and project balanced and non-stereotyped images of girls and boys, and work to eliminate child pornography and degrading and violent portrayals of the girl child;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 276c
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- [By Governments:] Develop and adopt curricula, teaching materials and textbooks to improve the self-image, lives and work opportunities of girls, particularly in areas where women have traditionally been underrepresented, such as mathematics, science and technology;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 276b
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- [By Governments:] Set up educational programmes and develop teaching materials and textbooks that will sensitize and inform adults about the harmful effects of certain traditional or customary practices on girl children;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 83i
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- [By Governments, educational authorities and other educational and academic institutions:] Develop appropriate education and information programmes with due respect for multilingualism, particularly in conjunction with the mass media, that make the public, particularly parents, aware of the importance of non-discriminatory education for children and the equal sharing of family responsibilities by girls and boys;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 80g
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- [By Governments:] Promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impeded the schooling of pregnant adolescents and young mothers, including, as appropriate, affordable and physically accessible child- care facilities and parental education to encourage those who are responsible for the care of their children and siblings during their school years, to return to or continue with and complete schooling;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 279a
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- [By Governments:] Ensure universal and equal access to and completion of primary education by all children and eliminate the existing gap between girls and boys, as stipulated in article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; similarly, ensure equal access to secondary education by the year 2005 and equal access to higher education, including vocational and technical education, for all girls and boys, including the disadvantaged and gifted;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 282c(iv)
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- [By Governments:] [Protect young girls at work, inter alia, through:] Establishment of continuous training and education;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 263
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- Although the number of educated children has grown in the past 20 years in some countries, boys have proportionately fared much better than girls. In 1990, 130 million children had no access to primary school; of these, 81 million were girls. This can be attributed to such factors as customary attitudes, child labour, early marriages, lack of funds and lack of adequate schooling facilities, teenage pregnancies and gender inequalities in society at large as well as in the family as defined in paragraph 29 above. In some countries the shortage of women teachers can inhibit the enrolment of girls. In many cases, girls start to undertake heavy domestic chores at a very early age and are expected to manage both educational and domestic responsibilities, often resulting in poor scholastic performance and an early drop-out from schooling.
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 233h
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- [By Governments and non-governmental organizations, the United Nations and other international organizations, as appropriate:] Promote education in all countries in human rights and international humanitarian law for members of the national security and armed forces, including those assigned to United Nations peace-keeping operations, on a routine and continuing basis, reminding them and sensitizing them to the fact that they should respect the rights of women at all times, both on and off duty, giving special attention to the rules on the protection of women and children and to the protection of human rights in situations of armed conflict;
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 152
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- Discrimination in education and training, hiring and remuneration, promotion and horizontal mobility practices, as well as inflexible working conditions, lack of access to productive resources and inadequate sharing of family responsibilities, combined with a lack of or insufficient services such as child care, continue to restrict employment, economic, professional and other opportunities and mobility for women and make their involvement stressful. Moreover, attitudinal obstacles inhibit women's participation in developing economic policy and in some regions restrict the access of women and girls to education and training for economic management.
- Body
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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