Draft Platform for Action

• Introduction
• Note by the Secretary-General
• I. PROPOSED BEIJING DECLARATION TO ACCOMPANY THE DRAFT PLATFORM FOR ACTION: MATERIAL SUBMITTED BY PATRICIA B. LICUANAN (PHILIPPINES), CHAIRPERSON OF THE THIRTY-NINTH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
• General characteristics of the Declaration
• Main elements of the Declaration
• Preamble
• Global environment (descriptive)
• Enabling environment (prescriptive)
• Commitments
• Annex I
• INITIAL POSITION OF THE GROUP OF 77 (To be developed further by the Group of 77)
• Annex II
• EUROPEAN UNION POSITION ON THE DRAFT DECLARATION SUBMITTED BY THE GROUP OF 77
• Annex III
• AMENDMENTS TO THE INITIAL POSITION OF THE GROUP OF 77, SUBMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• Annex IV
• AMENDMENTS TO THE INITIAL POSITION OF THE GROUP OF 77, SUBMITTED BY CANADA
• II. DRAFT PLATFORM FOR ACTION
• Chapter I MISSION STATEMENT
• Chapter II GLOBAL FRAMEWORK
• Chapter III CRITICAL AREAS OF CONCERN
• Chapter IV STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS
• A. The persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women
• Strategic objective A.1. Review, adopt and maintain macroeconomic policies and development strategies that address the needs and efforts of women to overcome poverty within the framework of sustainable development
• *Strategic objective A.2. Revise laws and administrative practices to recognize women's rights to economic resources and to ensure women's access to economic resources
• Strategic objective A.3. Provide women with access to savings mechanisms and institutions and to credit
• B. Unequal access to and inadequate educational opportunities
• Strategic objective B.1. Ensure equal access to education
• Strategic objective B.2. Eradicate illiteracy among women worldwide [by the year 2000]
• Strategic objective B.3. Improve women's access to vocational training, science and technology and continuing education
• Strategic objective B.4. Develop non-discriminatory education and training
• *Strategic objective B.5. Allocate sufficient resources for educational reforms and monitor implementation
• Strategic objective B.6. [To promote lifelong learning [educational processes] for girls and women]
• C. Inequalities in access to health and related services
• Strategic objective C.1. Increase women's access throughout the life cycle to appropriate free or affordable and good quality health care and related information and services[*]
• Strategic objective C.2. Strengthen preventive programmes that address threats to women's health
• Strategic objective C.3. Undertake [gender-sensitive] multisectoral initiatives that address sexually transmitted diseases, the HIV/AIDS pandemic and other [sexual and reproductive health] issues
• Strategic objective C.4. Promote research and information dissemination on women's health
• Strategic objective C.5. Increase resources and monitor follow-up for women's health
• D. Violence against women
• Strategic objective D.1. Take integrated measures to prevent and eliminate violence against women
• Strategic objective D.2. Study the causes of violence against women and effective methods of prevention strategies
• Strategic objective D.3 Adopt special measures to eliminate trafficking in women and to assist female victims of violence due to prostitution and trafficking
• E. Advance peace, promote conflict resolution and reduce the impact of armed or other conflict on women
• Strategic objective E.1. Increase and strengthen the participation of women in conflict resolution and decision-making and leadership in peace and security activities and protect women in armed and other conflicts [and living under foreign occupation]
• Strategic objective E.2. [Reduce military expenditures and control the availability of armaments] [Reduce and eliminate the availability of instruments of violence against women]
• Strategic objective E.3. Promote non-violent forms of conflict resolution and reduce the incidence of human rights abuse in conflict situations
• Strategic objective E.4. Promote women's contribution to fostering a culture of peace
• Strategic objective E.5. Provide protection, assistance and training to refugee and displaced women [including internally displaced women]
• [New strategic objective E.6. Provide assistance to the women of the colonies
• F. [Inequality in women's access to and participation in the definition of economic structures and policies [and the productive process itself]] [Economic potential and independence of women] [Gender equality in economic structures, policies and all forms of productive activity]
• Strategic objective F.1. [Promote women's self-reliance, including access to employment, appropriate working conditions and control over economic resources - land, capital, credit and technology - and guarantee economic opportunities for women] [Secure economic rights for women]
• Strategic objective F.2. Take positive action to facilitate women's equal access to resources, employment, markets and trade
• Strategic objective F.3. Provide business services and access to markets, information and technology to low-income women
• Strategic objective F.4. Strengthen women's economic capacity and commercial networks
• Strategic objective F.5. Eliminate occupational segregation and all forms of employment discrimination
• Strategic objective F.6. [Create a flexible work environment] [Better harmonization of work and family responsibilities for women and men]
• G. [Inequality between men and women in the sharing of power [family responsibilities] and decision-making at all levels] [Shared power: women in decision-making]
• Strategic objective G.1. [Take special measures to ensure women's equal access to and full participation in power structures and decision-making]
• Strategic objective G.2. Increase women's capacity to participate in decision-making and leadership
• H. Insufficient mechanisms at all levels to promote the advancement of women
• Strategic objective H.1. Create or strengthen national machineries and other governmental bodies
• Strategic objective H.2. Integrate gender perspectives in [all] legislation, public policies, programmes and projects
• Strategic objective H.3. Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation
• I. [Lack of awareness of and commitment to [internationally and nationally recognized] human rights of women] [The enjoyment of [all] [universal] human rights by women]
• Strategic objective I.1. Promote and protect [all] the human rights of women, through the full implementation of all [international] human rights instruments, especially through the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• Strategic objective I.2. Ensure equality and non-discrimination under the law
• J. Inequality in women's access to and participation in all communications systems, especially the media, and their insufficient mobilization to promote women's contribution to society [Mobilize the media to portray women's contribution to society] [Responsibility of the media for the impact of their content on women] [Women and the media]
• Strategic objective J.1. Increase the participation and enhance the access of women to expression and decision-making in and through the media and new technologies of communication
• Strategic objective J.2. Promote a [positive] [balanced and non-stereotyped] portrayal of women in the media
• K. [Lack of adequate recognition and support for] [Promote] [women's contribution to managing natural resources and safeguarding the environment] [Women and the environment]
• Strategic objective K.1. Involve women actively in environmental decision-making at all levels
• Strategic objective K.2. Ensure integration of gender concerns and perspectives in policies and programmes for sustainable development
• Strategic objective K.3. Establish or strengthen mechanisms at the national, regional and international levels to assess the impact of development and environmental policies on women
• L. [Persistent discrimination against and violation of the rights of] [Survival, protection and development of] the girl child
• Strategic objective L.1. Eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl child
• Strategic objective L.2. Eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against girls
• Strategic objective L.3. [Increase public awareness of the value, needs and rights of the girl child,] [including the girl child with special needs and in difficult circumstances, and the need to strengthen her self- image, self-esteem and status]
• Strategic objective L.4. Eliminate discrimination against girls in education, skills development and training
• Strategic objective L.5. Eliminate discrimination against girls in health and nutrition
• Strategic objective L.6. [Eliminate the economic exploitation of child labour and protect young girls at work]
• Strategic objective L.7. Eradicate violence against [girls] [the girl child]
• Strategic objective L.8. Educate the girl child about social, economic and political issues and problems
• Chapter V INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
• A. National level
• B. Subregional/regional level
• C. International level
• 1. United Nations
• General Assembly
• Economic and Social Council
• [Commission on the Status of Women
• Other functional commissions
• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other treaty bodies
• United Nations Secretariat
• Other units of the United Nations Secretariat
• International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
• United Nations Development Fund for Women
• Chapter VI FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS
• A. National level
• B. Regional level
• C. International level