The platforms of actions ensuing from these conferences highlighted the paucity of data on the global prevalence, nature, causes, and consequences of domestic violence.
Most live in developing countries.When we talk about achieving gender equality, we need only look at the Beijing Platform of Action that Mrs Clinton presided over, which acknowledged that the right of women to control their health, particularly their own fertility, as basic to empowerment.
And yet, 21 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action established a target of 50/50 gender parity at the professional and higher levels, progress in our ranks is simply too slow.
We will look again at pledges made in the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action with a view to renewing the global effort to remove the inequalities that put decent health services beyond so many women's reach.
This language was later used in the Beijing Platform of Action [ 41].
Delegates from New Zealand, for example, urged that all strive to implement the Convention "with the aid of the Platform of Action adopted by this Special Session".
The Philippines also became a signatory to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action, among others.
I am delighted that the Platform of Action adopted at this conference will be delivered personally by you, President Museveni, to the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children in New York next month.
Having been elected in 2007 on a platform of delivering action on climate change – Rudd famously declared climate change to represent "the greatest moral challenge of our time" – it was a remarkable act of political cowardice, if not ineptitude.
Governor Inslee was featured in episode 5 for his leadership as a climate-focused governor who won election on a platform of climate action promises.
