Conference Coverage

Governments Approve UN Women's Platform With Reservations

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 25th, 1995

No sooner had delegates approved an ambitious United Nations (U.N.) blueprint for achieving women's equality did governments began opting out of the guidelines it established.

No duplicity or hypocrisy here. It's part of a U.N.-ordained method, known as expressing "reservations," for achieving consensus while allowing disagreement with policy guidelines.

The 189 governments at the U.N. women's conference adopted its platform for action and declaration of principles by consensus on September 15, 1995. No vote was taken.

Many of the more than 40 countries that took exception to parts of the document - which runs the gamut from...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-09-25)

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