Declaration on the Elimination

of All Forms of Discrimination

against Women
 

Schemes of international human rights issues were not dealing with women, even in 1949, the date of the first global conference, which has mainly to demonstrate the idea of people's right to equality in dignity and rights and others, and equally between men and women.

Over time, international women's rights convention were first summarized by the women's United Nations in 1967., When they presented the "Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women" and, of course, not mandatory The announcement resulted in the lack of response by most countries, particularly the developing world, which called on the United Nations to adopt in 1975. International Women's Year, in the 28 September 1972. Under the motto: Equality - development - peace.

In the same year, Mexico City witnessed the convening of the World Conference on Women. , And highlighted the achievements of this conference, "to adopt a global plan of action adopted by all States acceding to the United Nations, aimed at ensuring greater integration of women in various walks of life. It also launched the conference in the years between 1976 and 1985 the name" United Nations Decade for Women

Under the slogan: "United Nations Decade of the World Women: Equality, Development and Peace" conference was held in the city of Copenhagen - Denmark between 14 and 30 July 1980.
It should be noted that between Mexico City and Copenhagen conferences, held several conferences, and perhaps the most important concerns of these conferences and conventions is the Convention adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 18/12/1979 under the name "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women"

And the Beijing + 5 meeting in New York in the summer of 2000. Which was devoted to study the application of the recommendations of the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995? In the past five years and planning for the next five years, under the theme "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-century atheist."


Perhaps the most important recommendations made by the Beijing Conference 5 + is to work to lift the reservations on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and to the final ratification, and that by the year 2005. .
In general we can say that the Convention on "Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women", published in 1979, consisting of thirty articles put in the form of binding legal principles and internationally accepted measures to achieve equal rights for women everywhere

The aim of the Convention to ensure equal rights for women, regardless of their marital status in all fields - political, economic, social, cultural and civil - a call for the enactment of national legislation prohibiting discrimination, and recommends the adoption of temporary special measures to accelerate the achievement of real equality between men and women, and to take steps aimed at modify social and cultural patterns that perpetuate such discrimination.

It also provides other measures to ensure equal rights for women in the fields of politics, in public life, education, employment, pay and equal responsibility within the framework of life, and the Convention calls for the non-discrimination in the health services provided to women.

The 20 countries agreed to abide by the provisions of the Convention as of March 1, 1980 over the years the numbers of States acceding to the Convention to 185, according to the latest estimates for 2006 are in various stages of joining them and the other of which has reached the stage of ratification and implementation