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3rd World Conference on Women, Nairobi 1985
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Summary
Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women *
The Forward Looking Strategies call for:
Sexual equality
 | the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women |
 | equal rights under the law |
 | equal rights to marriage and divorce |
 | the establishment, in every country, of a high-level governmental body to monitor and
implement progress towards equality |
Women's automony and power
 | the right of all women -- irrespective of marital status -- to buy, sell, own and
administer property and other resources independently |
 | the protection of women's rights to land, credit, training, investment and income as an
integral part of all agrarian reform and agricultural development |
 | the equal involvement of women, at every stage and level of development |
 | the promotion of women to positions of power at every level within all political and
legislative bodies in order to achieve parity with men |
 | measures to promote equal distribution of productive resources and reduce mass poverty
among women, particularly in terms of economic recession |
Recognition of women's unpaid work
 | recognition of the extent and value of women's unpaid work, inside and outside the home |
 | inclusion of women's paid and unpaid work in national accounts and economic statistics |
 | the sharing of domestic responsibilities |
 | the development of services, to reduce women's child-care and domestic workload,
including introduction of incentives to encourage employers to provide child-care
facilities for working parents |
 | the establishment of flexible working hours to encourage the sharing of child-care and
domestic work between parents |
Advances in women's paid work
 | equal employment opportunities |
 | equal pay for work of equal value |
* Summarized in: Youth Sourcebook on Sustainable Development,
Winnipeg:
International Institute for Sustainable Development, 1995.
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