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The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, 1945-1996

Throughout its first half century, the United Nations has served as a catalyst for the global advancement of women. Working to promote the principles of gender equality and non-discrimination enshrined in the Organization's Charter, the United Nations has been instrumental in promoting recognition of women's fundamental human rights, in codifying those rights in legally binding international agreements, and in fostering greater understanding of the central role played by women in peace-building and in economic and social development. The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, 1945-1995 includes more than 100 United Nations documents relating to women's rights, and chronicles the evolution of a campaign in which the initial focus on political and family life has expanded and now encompasses urgent issues such as poverty, violence against women and equal access to education, employment and health care. Complementing the documents are an extensive introduction by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and detailed chronologies. The documents include: 1) the landmark 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 2) International conventions and declarations on the political rights of women and the nationality of married women; 3) Actions plans, declarations and resolutions adopted at the cycle of world conferences on women beginning in Mexico City in 1975 and including the 1985 Nairobi Forward-looking Strategiesand the 1995 Beijing Conference; 4) Resolutions of the General Assembly and of the Economic and Social Council; 5) United Nations surveys and statistics on the status of women worldwide.

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