Former SA First Lady calls for continuous struggle for women’s rights
Source: Daily News
SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg FORMER South Africa’s First Lady Ms Zanele Mbeki has called for continuous actions by women from across Africa and the world at large in the struggle for their rights in order to fast track realisation of the issues agreed during the 1995 Beijing Conference.
Ms Mbeki said that during the conference women expected that to date the world would have been changed because the struggle against gender-based violence would have been taken much far.
She said the conference also expected that the rights of girl child would have been attained and fought and succeed on women’s representation.
“These are just some of the issues that have not become better, but in many parts of the world have become worse including in our own country …so this suggest that we are not at the stage where we can rest, we need to continue,” Ms Mbeki said on Wednesday at the ongoing SAWID 20-Year Celebration Annual Dialogue.
The 1995 fourth world conference on women held 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, as an agenda for women’s empowerment and considered the key global policy document on gender equality.
SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg FORMER South Africa’s First Lady Ms Zanele Mbeki has called for continuous actions by women from across Africa and the world at large in the struggle for their rights in order to fast track realisation of the issues agreed during the 1995 Beijing Conference.
Ms Mbeki said that during the conference women expected that to date the world would have been changed because the struggle against gender-based violence would have been taken much far.
She said the conference also expected that the rights of girl child would have been attained and fought and succeed on women’s representation.
“These are just some of the issues that have not become better, but in many parts of the world have become worse including in our own country …so this suggest that we are not at the stage where we can rest, we need to continue,” Ms Mbeki said on Wednesday at the ongoing SAWID 20-Year Celebration Annual Dialogue.
The 1995 fourth world conference on women held 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, as an agenda for women’s empowerment and considered the key global policy document on gender equality.