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Strategic objective C.4.
Promote research and disseminate information on women’s health
Actions to be taken
109. By Governments, the United Nations system, health professions, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, donors, pharmaceutical industries and the mass media, as appropriate:
k. Develop mechanisms to evaluate and disseminate available data and research findings to researchers, policy makers, health professionals and women’s groups, among others;
l. Monitor human genome and related genetic research from the perspective of women’s health and disseminate information and results of studies conducted in accordance with accepted ethical standards.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The Beijing Declaration in this section of the paragraphs deals with the need to not only provide the relevant information but grade or evaluate it.
That is, the emphasis is on the national and international systems, in addition to the relevant experts and the media, to work on women’s rights work through the relevant means by which to accomplish greater education of women.
This was interesting in the light of the statements about the genome, as the Human Genome Project was still quite new and, potentially, had not accomplished its goal by the time of the Beijing Declaration publication.
In addition, there is an emphasis on the evaluation and the monitoring of the research of genetic to see the areas in which women may be particularly vulnerable or in need of additional information.
We can see some of this emerging in the modern period with the breast cancer risk much higher in women than in men, of course; and, also of course, the genetic triggers for the variability in the riskiness of one’s life and developing cancers and tumors of the breast(s).
The accepted ethical guidelines of standard professional, medical and academic work become the basis for the reliable provision of proper information for women to make informed decisions about what happens and what they do with their bodies in all matters.
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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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