Beijing Platform for Action

• The Beijing Platform for Action is an agenda for women’s empowerment. 
• The Beijing Platform for Action, was adopted at the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, China, 1995).
• It aims at removing all the obstacles to women’s active participation in all spheres of public and private life through ensuring women a full and equal share in economic, social, cultural and political decision-making.
• This means that the principle of shared power and responsibility should be established between women and men at home, in the workplace, and in the wider national and international communities.

Equality between women and men is a matter of human rights and a condition for social justice.

• It is also a necessary and fundamental prerequisite for equality, development and peace.
• To this end, governments, the international community and civil society, including non-governmental organisations and the private sector, were called upon to take strategic action in the twelve critical areas of concern identified in the Platform for Action.
• The platform for action addresses twelve (12) critical areas of concern to women globally. It made a commitment towards these areas.
•  These areas are:-

• Women and poverty 
• Education and training of women 
• Women and health 
• Violence against women 
• Women and armed conflict 
• Women and the economy 
• Women in power and decision-making 
• Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women 
• Human rights of women 
• Women and the media 
• Women and the environment 
• The girl-child