“Women’s rights are human rights” is the prominent slogan that evolved out of the fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995.
Since then, international treaties for the advancement of women and against gender-based discrimination have been signed, national laws created and amended and action plans written all over the world.
Myanmar signed the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1997, formed the National Committee for the Advancement of Women, and assigned the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement responsible for implementing and monitoring the country’s Strategic Plan for the Advancement of Women (NSPAW) – a 10-year plan aiming at advancing women’s status in 12 areas and reaching substantive gender equality in Myanmar until 2022. (Courtesy of Myanmar Times)
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