2 DECLARATIONS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR ACTION
Article 22.2. Specifically prohibits
They also considered certain fundamental values to be essential to international relations in the twenty-first century and, specifically, they affirmed that equal rights and opportunities of women and men must be assured.
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Target 11: Have achieved by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
The World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Kobe, Hyogo (Japan), from 18-22 January 2005
The principal world mandate on gender quality in the context of disaster risk management comes within the framework of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction.
Stipulates that a gender perspective should be integrated into all disaster risk management policies, including those related to risk assessment, early warning, information management, and education and training.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DECRIPS)
13 September 2007 After more than 20 years of negotiations, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was finally adopted.
Article 22.2. Specifically prohibits
discrimination against women, stating that all rights and freedoms recognized in the Declaration shall be guaranteed equally to indigenous people, both men and women.
Article 4). Establishes a norm to provide information about the implementation of the Declaration.
3 PROTOCOLS
INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT EFFECTIVE DATE PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTIONS SPECIFIED ARTICLES Facultative Protocolto CEDAW Entered into force in 2000.
The Protocol provides a mechanism whereby women can request investigations of violations of rights established in CEDAW.
4 OTHERS
INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT EFFECTIVE DATE PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTIONS SPECIFIED ARTICLES Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) The WSSD was adopted in Johannesburg in 2002. It promotes equal access by women and their full participation in decision-making at all levels, on an equal basis with men.Requires transversalization of gender perspectives in all policies and strategies, the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and an improvement in the condition, health and economic wellbeing of women and girls by giving them full and equal access to economic opportunities, land, credit and health care.
INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT EFFECTIVE DATE PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTIONS SPECIFIED ARTICLES
Kyoto Protocol December 1997 Approved and entered into force on 18 November 2004, after being ratified by 55 Parties to the Convention.
This Protocol established obligatory targets for industrialized countries on emissions and created innovative mechanisms to help them comply with them. To date, 174 countries have ratified the Protocol.
RESOURCE GUIDE ON GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE 132 INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT EFFECTIVE DATE PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTIONS SPECIFIED ARTICLES Resolution 2005/31 of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
United Nations Economic and Social Council 2005
This ECOSOC resolution established that incorporating a gender perspective in all United Nations system policies and programmes is a strategy accepted worldwide to promote equality between genders; it is fundamental to apply the Beijing Platform for Action and to obtain the results requested by the twenty-third extraordinary period of sessions of the General Assembly. Another important action recommended that all entities in the United Nations system promote coordination, cooperation and exchange of methodologies and good practices, which should include the development of tools and effective processes to monitor and assess the United Nations.
ECOSOC also recommended that all agencies’ internal mechanisms consider the gender perspective in their work. This resolution is evidence that the responses to climate change should incorporate the gender perspective in all mechanisms, methodologies, programmes and field of action in which they operate.
This legal instrument expressly exhorts all entities of the United Nations system to intensify efforts aimed at resolving the problems of integrating the gender perspective into their policies and programmes, by taking steps to:
- Prepare action plans, if they do not already exist, with clear directions about the practical aspects of incorporating a gender perspective into policies and programmes. - Ensure that action plans include specific time periods and regulations about institutional mechanisms, both at headquarters and in field offices, and that they are fully coordinated with the general objectives and strategies of the Organization. - Fully incorporate a gender perspective in programme budgets, in multi-annual financing frameworks and in all budget process based on results.
- Make personnel more efficient by ensuring continuous awareness building and training on questions of gender.
- Encourage personnel to improve their capacity to analyze problems concerning gender, and require that they apply such analysis when making policy and working on programmes.
- Ensure that senior executive officers make a full and firm commitment to include a gender perspective in their policies, programmes and projects.
INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT EFFECTIVE DATE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES SPECIFIED ARTICLES - Strengthen account-rendering systems used by all personnel concerning the inclusion of a gender perspective; these should include evaluating professional performance. Include a gender perspective in operational mechanisms, in accordance with national development strategies. This includes evaluations common to all countries and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework, strategy documents on the fight against poverty and the frameworks on presenting reports and on execution, as well as documents related to achieving international development goals such as those cited in the Millennium Declaration.
- Continue to support governments and to collaborate with civil society in their efforts to apply the Beijing Platform for Action and the results of the twenty-third extraordinary period of sessions of the General Assembly. - Continue to develop and institutionalise supervision and assessment instruments, as well as methodologies to analyze repercussions on the subject of gender.
- Promote the collection, compilation and analysis of data itemized by gender and ensure that such data are used.
- Promote the incorporation of gender perspectives in macro-economic policies and social development, and in the most important national development programmes.