Chinese President Xi Jinping Calls for Global Action to Promote Women's Advancement

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Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted the need for international cooperation and joint efforts to accelerate the process of women's all-round development at the Global Leaders' Meeting on Women held in Beijing. The meeting, which commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, underscored the shared responsibility of the international community to promote women's advancement and overcome complex challenges such as violence, discrimination, and poverty that continue to hinder women's development.

Key Takeaways:

  • Over 600 million women and girls around the world are still trapped in war and conflict, and around 10 percent of women and girls are trapped in extreme poverty, according to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
  • Around 189 countries have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and nearly 1,600 laws on women's rights and interests have been enacted by more than 190 countries.
  • The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, serves as a guiding document for global women development and gender equality.
  • President Xi Jinping proposed four proposals to accelerate women's all-round development: fostering an enabling environment for women's growth and development, cultivating strong momentum for the high-quality development of women's cause, developing governance frameworks to protect women's rights and interests, and promoting global cooperation on women.
  • China will donate an additional 10 million US dollars to UN Women and earmark a quota of 100 million dollars in China's Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund for implementing development cooperation projects for women and girls in collaboration with international organizations.
  • The Global Leaders' Meeting on Women aims to accelerate the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and inject new momentum into the promotion of global gender equality and the all-round development of women.

Statistics:

  • Over 600 million women and girls are trapped in war and conflict around the world. (Source: Global Leaders' Meeting on Women)
  • Around 10 percent of women and girls are trapped in extreme poverty. (Source: Global Leaders' Meeting on Women)
  • 189 countries have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. (Source: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women)
  • Nearly 1,600 laws on women's rights and interests have been enacted by more than 190 countries. (Source: Global Leaders' Meeting on Women)
  • China will donate an additional 10 million US dollars to UN Women. (Source: Global Leaders' Meeting on Women)
  • China will earmark a quota of 100 million dollars in China's Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund for implementing development cooperation projects for women and girls. (Source: Global Leaders' Meeting on Women)

Sources:

  • The State Council of the People's Republic of China
  • The Global Leaders' Meeting on Women
  • The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • UN Women
  • Xinhua News Agency