Promoting Gender Equality
International and Regional Agreements and Conventions
Major International Forums, Agreements and Declarations Related to UNFPA’s Work
Other International Instruments
Relevant to Gender Issues
- Convention Against Transnational
Organized Crime, 2000
- Women and Peace and Security, Security
Council Resolution, 2000
- Violence Against Women Migrant Workers,
General Assembly Resolution, 2000
- Women in Development, General Assembly
Resolution, 2000
- Improvement of the Situation of
Women in rural Areas, General Assembly Resolution, 2000
- Traditional or Customary Practices
Affecting the Health of Women and Girls, General Assembly
Resolution, 1999
- Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Measures to Eliminate Violence Against Women, General
Assembly Resolution, 1998
- Integration of Older Women in Development,
General Assembly Resolution, 1994
Africa
- Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (ECA)
- African [Banjul] Charter on Human
and Peoples' Rights, adopted June 27, 1981, OAU Doc.
CAB/LEG/67/3 rev. 5, 21 I.L.M. 58 (1982), entered into
force Oct. 21, 1986: [excerpts]
- Declaration on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
at the XI International Conference on AIDS and STDs
in Africa, 1999
- Women’s Declaration and Agenda
for a Culture of Peace in Africa Adopted at the Close
of a Pan African Conference in Zanzibar, 1999
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Gender and Development - A Declaration
by Heads of State or Government of the Southern African
Development Community, 1997
- Resolution on the African Commission
on Human and Peoples' Rights, Sixty-Fourth Ordinary
Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organization
of African Unity, 1996
Arab States and Europe
- Economic Commission for Europe - 10-year Review of the Beijing Platform
for Action (ECE)
- Beirut Declaration.
Arab Women Ten Years After Beijing: Call for Peace
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of
the European Union
- Beirut Declaration, Recommendations
of the First Arab Conference on Justice, 1999
- The First International Conference
of the Arab Human Rights Movement: Prospects for the
Future, 1999
- Treaty on Establishing the European
Community - incorporating the changes made by the Treaty
of Amsterdam, Articles 2,3,13 and 141 relevant to gender
equality.
- Council of the League of Arab States,
Arab Charter on Human Rights, September 15, 1994, reprinted
in 18 Hum. Rts. L.J. 151 (1997).
Asia and the Pacific
Latin America and the Caribbean
