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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. -
International Women's Year
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First World Conference on Women
The first world conference on the status of women was convened in Mexico City to coincide with the 1975 International Women's Year, observed to remind the international community that discrimination against women continued to be a persistent problem in much of the world. -
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Almost one hundred nations have agreed to be bound by its provisions. The Convention was the culmination of more than thirty years of work by the United Nations on the status of women. -
Second World Conference on Women
Member States met in Copenhagen in 1980 for the second world conference on women to review and appraise the 1975 World Plan of Action. Governments and the international community had made strides toward achieving the targets set out in Mexico City five years earlier. -
Third World Conference on Women
The World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the UN Decade for Women took place in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference’s mandate was to establish concrete measures to overcome obstacles to achieving the Decade’s goals. -
World Conference on Human Rights
Representatives of 171 States adopted by consensus the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Conference on Human Rights, thus successfully closing the two-week World Conference and presenting to the international community a common plan for the strengthening of human rights work around the world. -
Fourth World Conference on Women
The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during in Beijing, China -
Security Council Resolution on Women, Peace, and Security
The resolution reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, peace-building, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and in post-conflict reconstruction and stresses the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security. Resolution 1325 urges all actors to increase the participation of women and incorporate gender perspectives in all United Nations efforts. -
Secuirty Council Resolution 1820 on Sexual Violence in Conflict
It condemns the use of sexual violence as a tool of war, and declares that “rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide”. -
Decision made to establish UN women
