Women's
Rights
History
The United Nations support for
women’s rights began with the international framework stated in the Charter of
the United Nations. Among the purposes of the United Nations claimed in Article
1 of the Charter of the United Nations is to achieve international cooperation
to promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all people and
to encourage it without distinction as to race, language, or religion between men
and women.
In the first year of the
United Nations, they established the economic and social committee on the
status of women. The Declaration of Human Rights affirms the principle that all
people are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is
entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without
distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, property,
birth or other status.
When the international women's
movement began to gain some movement during the seventies, the General Assembly
proclaimed 1975 as the International Women's Year and organized the first World
Conference on Women, held in Mexico. Later, it announced the years 1976 -
1985 as the United Nations Decade for Women.
In 1979, the General
Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women; the Convention bans discrimination against
women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.
A meeting was held in Beijing in 1995. The fundamental shift that occurred in Beijing
was the recognition of the need to shift the focus from women to the concept of
sex, recognising that we must re-evaluate the structure of the entire society
and all relationships between men and women in it. (www.un.org/en/globalissues/women/)
Elimination of Violence against Women
Elimination of Violence against Women
The General Assembly Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in 1993 is a statement of the rights that should be applied to ensure the elimination of violence against women in all its forms. It is also like a commitment from countries to hold their responsibilities and the commitment of the international community, as a whole, seeking to eliminate violence against women. In 2007, the theme of International Women's Day was to put an end to immunity for the perpetrators of violence against women and girls.
It has many affects on society. According to World Health Organization reports
violence against women is considered expensive for governments where it appears
that women who suffer from violence need health care services at a cost much higher
compared with women who did not experience violence.
In conclusion
In this essay I summarize what
the United Nations wants to achieve during the upcoming years for women's rights
and against violence and it’s working hard to give women their rights because
these days we watch women dying in other countries due to physical violence, sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
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