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The implementation of the Platform for Action requires commitment from Governments and the international community. By making national and international commitments for action, including those made at the Conference, Governments and the international community recognize the need to take priority action for the empowerment and advancement of women.
The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China. [ 1 ]
In 1995, the Commission held the Fourth World Conference for Action, better known as the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. [14] This followed three other conferences addressing the needs and rights of women around the world. [15]
The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action contained an entire chapter focused on women, peace, and security. During the 1990s, the NGO community was increasingly concerned about the negative impacts of war on women, particularly widespread sexual violence seen in civil wars in Bosnia , West Africa, and Rwanda .
As Jacqui True says, "[m]ainstreaming was established as a global strategy for achieving gender equality, and in turn for achieving sustainable economic development in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action ratified by all United Nations member states. It is now incumbent upon nation-states and international organizations to carry out gender ...
In 1995, more than 30,000 activists from around the world met in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. [5] One of WECF's first large projects as an organization consisted of sending a delegation of women to attend the civil society forum in Beijing before the conference, where they would highlight the intersections between gender ...
Naggita-Musoke, Esther Damalie (2001). "The Beijing Platform for Action: a review of progress made by Uganda (1995-2000)". East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights. 7 (2): 256–282. The State and Law: The Case for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Uganda. Dissertation. University of Wisconsin Law School. 2012. [6]
It was the country's main vehicle for implementing the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) adopted at the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women. [ citation needed ] Since 1998, the commission's focus has been on poverty alleviation , along with the advancement and protection of women's human rights, promoting women's ...