Women’s rights have been at the heart of a series of international
conferences that have produced significant political commitments to
women’s human rights and equality. Starting in 1975, which was also
International Women’s Year, Mexico City hosted the World Conference
on the International Women’s Year, which resulted in the World Plan of
Action and the designation of 1975–1985 as the United Nations Decade
for Women. In 1980, another international conference on women was
held in Copenhagen and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women was opened for signature. The third World
Conference on Women was held in Nairobi, with the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women having begun its work in
1982. These three world conferences witnessed extraordinary activism
on the part of women from around the world and laid the groundwork for
the world conferences in the 1990s to address women’s rights, including
the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 (see
below). In addition, the rights of women belonging to particular groups,
such as older women, ethnic minority women or women with disabilities, have been also addressed in various other international policy documents
such as the International Plans of Action on Ageing (Vienna, 1982 and
Madrid, 2002), the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2001)
and the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (1982).
VIENNA DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
BEIJING DECLARATION AND PLATFORM FOR ACTION
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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