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Strategic objective E.1.
Increase the participation of women in conflict resolution at decision-making levels and protect women living in situations of armed and other conflicts or under foreign occupation
Actions to be taken
142. By Governments and international and regional intergovernmental institutions:
a. Take action to promote equal participation of women and equal opportunities for women to participate in all forums and peace activities at all levels, particularly at the decision-making level, including in the United Nations Secretariat with due regard to equitable geographical distribution in accordance with Article 101 of the Charter of the United Nations;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Paragraph 142 of the Beijing Declaration provides an interesting insight into the issues of international dialogue and peacemaking. It is emphasizing levels of governments and international and regional intergovernmental institutions. The core purpose is the protection of women to participate in the forums of peacemaking and associated activities “at all levels.”
The focus is peacemaking. As you may have gathered through skimming through this casual series covering the rights documents for women’s rights, the focus throughout the human rights documents on the rights of women focus on the need to provide an opportunity for women to be at the table.
Without such an opportunity, we can simply not expect an appropriate level of stability, likely, for the maintenance and continued development of peace and societies in the modern period with the international or “globalist” infrastructure developed since the end of WWII and the recognized necessity of women in the peace process and the necessity of the reduction of war in the world for the betterment of national life and citizen wellbeing and the frameworks of the world system to work while respecting national sovereignty at the same time.
In some sense, a balance between nationalism and globalism, which remain buzz words in the current media cycle, for a properly integrated internationalism – respect for national and international law, and respect for national sovereignty in the work of the nation-state in alignment with international norms and procedures.
An interesting concluding note, the commentary continues to note the equitable distribution in accordance with Article 101 of the Charter of the United Nations:
Article 101
1. The staff shall be appointed by the Secretary-General under regulations established by the General Assembly.
2. Appropriate staffs shall be permanently assigned to the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, and, as required, to other organs of the United Nations. These staffs shall form a part of the Secretariat.
3. The paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical basis as possible.
That is to imply, the equitable distribution via geography means the equal consideration and application of the United Nations Secretariat by geography, unstated if by country population, regional population, region, or what have you. This remains part of the messy nature of the international governing systems, while maintaining the principles of “efficiency, competence, and integrity.”
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- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Preamble, Article 16, and Article 25(2).
- Convention Against Discrimination in Education (1960) in Article 1.
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 3, Article 7, and Article 13.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984).
- The Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the optional protocol (1993).
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), Five-year review of progress (2000), 10-year review in 2005, the 15-year review in 2010, and the 20-year review in 2015.
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), and the UN Security Council additional resolutions on women, peace and security: 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013), 2122 (2013), and 2242 (2015).
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000).
- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the “Maputo Protocol” (2003).
- Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence or the Istanbul Convention (2011) Article 38 and Article 39.
- UN Women’s strategic plan, 2018–2021
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
- 2015 agenda with 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (169 targets for the end to poverty, combatting inequalities, and so on, by 2030). The SDGs were preceded by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000 to 2015.
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