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- Title
The Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women.
- Authors
Roberts, Barbara
- Abstract
The article focuses on United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995, that was the latest in a series which began in 1975, International Women's Year, and continued through the United Nation Decade for Women. Each conference adopted an action plan whereby member nations agreed to take certain steps to improve the status of women and bring about equality, development, and peace. The Beijing Conference differed from its predecessors in that most of the language of international agreements adopted at such events is thrashed out in preparatory conferences and little but tidying is left for the official meeting. However, the "Platform For Action (PFA)" draft that was taken to Beijing had almost 40 percent of its language in brackets, meaning it had not been agreed upon. Observers feared that alliances between Christian and Muslim fundamentalists that had resulted in vigorous challenges at earlier conferences might block the passage of the PFA or gut some of its provisions, which would weaken support for women's equality in many countries.
- Subjects
BEIJING (China); CHINA; CONFERENCES &; conventions; WOMEN; UNITED Nations; PROTESTANT fundamentalism
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1996, Vol 21, Issue 2, p237
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341979