Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action |Beijing Platform
for Action.pdf||427.9 KB| The United Nations Fourth World
Conference on Women Convened in 1995 in Beijing, following the
previous ones that took place in Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen
in 1980 and Nairobi in 1985, the Conference coalesced
preparations by delegates into the formulation of a Platform for
Action that sought to draw a strategic blueprint to achieve
greater equality and opportunity for women. The overriding
message is that the issues addressed -women and poverty, women
and decision-making and violence against women, amongst others-
are global and universal. Deeply entrenched attitudes and
practices perpetuate inequality and discrimination against women
in all parts of the world. Accordingly, implementation requires
that institutions at all levels must be reoriented to expedite
changes in values, attitudes, practices and priorities; measures
to protect and promote the human rights of women and girl-
children as an integral part of univer