National Women's History Project – Summer 2025 Auction
Auction Ends: Jul 22, 2025 05:00 PM PDT

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Beijing World Conference on Women Pin (.5")

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308
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Beijing World Conference on Women Pin (.5")

The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China was the most important of the four conferences on women held between 1975-1995, because it built on political agreements that had been reached at the three previous global conferences on women, and it consolidated five decades of legal advances aimed at securing

 The United Nations organized four world conferences on women. These took place in Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, Nairobi in 1985 and Beijing in 1995. The last was followed by a series of five-year reviews.

The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing marked a significant turning point for the global agenda for gender equality.

The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, adopted unanimously by 189 countries, is an agenda for women’s empowerment and considered the key global policy document on gender equality.

It set strategic objectives and actions for the advancement of women and the achievement of gender equality in 12 critical areas of concern:
Poverty, Education, Health, Violence, Armed Conflict, Economy, Decision-making, Advancement, Human Rights, the Media, Enviroment, and Girl-Child 

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