Conventions
International instruments, standards and goals pertinent to women's empowerment
Millennium Development Goal 3: promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women, 2000
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1995
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 1993
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), 1979
Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict, 1974
Convention on Political Rights of Women, 1952, entry into force 1954