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The first UN Women's Conference was held in Mexico City in 1975. There it was declared that the UN Decade for Women would begin in 1976, due particularly to the efforts of Letitia Shahani and U Thant. [1] [2] Members of the UN, aimed to increase literacy, vocational training, education, and employment opportunities for women. They also planned ...
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 ]
1. We, the Governments participating in the Fourth World Conference on Women, 2. gathered here in Beijing in September 1995, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, 3. determined to advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity,
The conference raised the issue of feminism within the Chicano community. [18] It led to the creation of resolutions from two of the largest workshops, "Sex and the Chicana" and "Marriage--Chicana Style" which addressed women's rights, access to birth control and abortions and for Chicana women to denounce machismo, discrimination in education, double standards for men and women and "the ...
The conference culminated in a World Plan of Action, which the United States voted against due to its inclusion of anti-Zionist language. [11] Cover the Commission's 1976 report. While the United States did not sign the World Plan of Action, the Commission published a report to the United States President, entitled "To
[49] [50] The delegation asked if a Women's Commission could be included in the conference to address the concerns of women and children. [35] [36] At the meeting Wilson suggested, instead, that the male diplomats from the peace conference form a Women's Commission to which the Inter-Allied Women's Conference could serve as advisers. [36]
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World Conference on Women, 1975, Mexico City, first of a series held by the United Nations; Women's Ordination Conference, 1975, Detroit, Michigan, advocating ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church; 1977 National Women's Conference, held in Houston, Texas, with 2,000 delegates and over 15,000 observers; 1977 Women's National ...