Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women

While there has been progress in most countries to end discrimination against women, there is still no society in the world where women enjoy full equality with men. As we enter the twenty-first century.

Women everywhere continue to fight against various forms of discrimination. Here are some facts:

• Two thirds of the world's illiterate adults are women.

• More boys than girls attend school.

• Women do twice the amount of unpaid work that men do.

• Women earn three fourths of what men earn.

• Women's health concerns are often ignored.

• Women are vastly under-represented in positions of power.

• Violence against women is a global epidemic.

Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is the most comprehensive, legally binding treaty on women's human rights. Constituting the international bill of rights for women, the convention sets up an agenda for national action to end discrimination.

At its core, the Convention provides for women's civil. political, economic and cultural rights and their legal equality. Women's rights include an end to all forms of discrimination-whether in the family or in society, before the law or in their everyday lives-until women are accepted as fully equal to men.

Then Convention is the only human rights treaty to affirm the reproductive rights of women and to focus to culture and tradition as influential forces shaping gender roles and family relations.

Rev Agnes Akinyemi (Mrs)

Director Children and Women Empowerment Dept. (JBLCF)

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