strategy
Ratifying international agreements on women's rights and participation
Synonyms:
Implementing international agreements on women's rights and participation Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Claim:
Governments are urged to ratify all relevant conventions pertaining to women if they have not already done so. Those that have ratified conventions should enforce and establish legal, constitutional and administrative procedures to transform agreed rights into domestic legislation and should adopt measures to implement them in order to strengthen the legal capacity of women for full and equal participation in issues and decisions on sustainable development. Broader:
Affirming women's rightsStrengthening participation of women in sustainable development programmes Facilitates:
Expanding social participation of womenApplying international standards on the rights of women Facilitated by:
Making intergovernmental treaties Organizations:
Inter-American convention on the granting of political rights to women Inter-American convention on the granting of civil rights to women Convention on the political rights of women Subjects:
Society → WomenSocial Activity → Participation
Law → Agreements
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
