World Conference on Women (4th : 1995 : Beijing, China)
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]
At this conference, governments from around the world agreed on a comprehensive plan to achieve global legal equality, known as the Beijing Platform for Action. Delegates had prepared the UNDP Beijing Express Declaration aimed at achieving greater equality and opportunity for women The conference was attended by representatives of 189 governments, UN agencies,[8] intergovernmental organizations such as the European Union and League of Arab States, as well as activists and organizations from across the world. There were 17,000 participants, with a further 30,000 activists attending a parallel Forum. Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the time the First Lady of the United States, gave the speech Women's Rights Are Human Rights at the conference on 5 September 1995.
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These papers pertain to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, which took place
September 4-15, 1995; the NGO Forum on Women took place just northeast of Beijing, August 30-September 8, 1995.
The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing marked a significant turning point for the global agenda for gender
equality. The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, adopted unanimously by 189 countries, is an agenda for
women’s empowerment and considered the key global policy document on gender equality. The Beijing conference built on
political agreements reached at the three previous global conferences on women (these took place in Mexico City in 1975,
Copenhagen in 1980, Nairobi in 1985 and then Beijing in 1995), and consolidated five decades of legal advances aimed at
securing the equality of women with men in law and in practice. More than 17,000 participants attended, including 6,000
government delegates at the negotiations, along with more than 4,000 accredited NGO representatives, a host of
international civil servants and around 4,000 media representatives. A parallel NGO Forum held in Huairou near Beijing also
drew some 30,000 participants.
The United Nations has organized four world conferences on women.
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