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The Beijing Declaration was a resolution adopted by the UN at the end of the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995. The resolution adopted to promulgate a set of principles concerning the equality of men and women .
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is widely known as the most progressive blueprint for advancing women's rights. The framework covers 12 areas of concern: Women and the environment; Women in power and decision making; The girl child; Women and the economy; Women and poverty; Violence against women; Human rights of women
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 phrase was first used in the 1980s and early 1990s. Its most prominent usage is as the name of a speech given by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the First Lady of the United States, on September 5, 1995, at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. [1]
The Beijing Declaration was signed at the closing ceremony of a reconciliation dialogue among the factions held in China's capital from July 21-23, state broadcaster CCTV said. Senior Hamas ...
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, a 1791 text authored by Olympe de Gouges; Women's Declaration of Rights, an 1876 declaration; Women's Declaration on Population Policies, a 1994 declaration; Beijing Declaration, a 1995 declaration; Declaration on Women's Rights, a 2020 declaration in support of gender equality
The Beijing declaration calls for a Palestinian state based on borders that were in place before Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in a 1967 war. But it offers only ...
BEIJING — Senior representatives from Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a joint declaration in China’s capital Beijing on Tuesday aimed at building unity and ending a decades-long ...