Europe and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: 15 years later
Motion for a resolution
| Doc. 12162
| 04 February 2010
- Signatories:
- Mr José MENDES BOTA,
Portugal, EPP/CD ; Mr Pedro AGRAMUNT,
Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr John AUSTIN,
United Kingdom ; Ms Ingrida CIRCENE,
Latvia, EPP/CD ; Ms Alena GAJDŮŠKOVÁ,
Czech Republic, SOC ; Ms Claude GREFF,
France, EPP/CD ; Ms Carina HÄGG,
Sweden ; Ms Gultakin HAJIBAYLI,
Azerbaijan, EPP/CD ; Mr Serhiy HOLOVATY,
Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Tadeusz IWIŃSKI,
Poland, SOC ; Ms Corien W.A. JONKER,
Netherlands, EPP/CD ; Mr Haluk KOÇ,
Turkey, SOC ; Ms Elvira KOVÁCS,
Serbia, EPP/CD ; Mr Göran LINDBLAD,
Sweden, EPP/CD ; Ms Liliane MAURY PASQUIER,
Switzerland, SOC ; Mr Jean-Claude MIGNON,
France, EPP/CD ; Mr Aydin MIRZAZADA,
Azerbaijan, EDG ; Ms Carina OHLSSON,
Sweden, SOC ; Ms Carmen QUINTANILLA,
Spain, EPP/CD ; Ms Birutė VĖSAITĖ,
Lithuania, SOC
- Thesaurus
This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only those who have signed it.
This year marks the fifteenth Anniversary since the Fourth
World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration
and Platform “Action for Equality, Development and Peace” that marked
the key step towards gender equality and paved the way for further
actions and initiatives.
The Parliamentary Assembly notes the progress achieved in
most of its member states, specifically regarding women’s participation
in the labour market; women’s political participation at local level,
new and strengthened legislation on combating violence against women
and domestic violence, as well as institutional mechanisms on gender
equality and women’s empowerment.
However, the Assembly is concerned about the uneven progress
made and the persistent challenges in its member states, such as
the gender pay gap, the gap between legislation and its implementation,
the situation of migrant women and women belonging to minority groups,
persisting gender stereotypes especially in the media and in education,
the lack of sex-disaggregated and qualitative data and the lack
of gender-sensitive indicators.
Reaffirming the centrality of gender equality for the universal
achievement of all Millennium Development Goals, the Assembly urges
the Committee of Ministers to:
- examine
the progress on the twelve areas of the Platform for Action made
by the member states and to present concrete measures to fulfill
their commitments in the coming years;
- develop the annual review of the implementation of the
Beijing Platform for Action and to use existing indicators and reports
as a basis for new initiatives aimed at achieving gender equality;
- encourage the member states to exchange knowledge and
best practices for achieving the goals set out in the Platform for
Action;
- systematically implement and monitor gender mainstreaming
in legislative, budgetary and other important processes, strategies
and programmes.