UPSC Prelims 2015 · Question 79 of 98

UPSC Prelims 2015 question on Beijing Declaration Platform

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action', often seen in the news, is

  1. a strategy to tackle the regional terrorism, an outcome of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  2. a plan of action for sustainable economic growth in the Asia-Pacific Region, an outcome of the deliberations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum
  3. an agenda for women's empowerment, an outcome of a World Conference convened by the United Nations
  4. a strategy to combat wildlife trafficking, a declaration of the East Asia Summit
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Answer: C. an agenda for women's empowerment, an outcome of a World Conference convened by the United Nations

Verdict

The answer is that it is an agenda for women's empowerment, an outcome of a World Conference convened by the United Nations.

Analysis

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted unanimously at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, and it set out an agenda for women's empowerment across twelve critical areas of concern. It has been reviewed at five yearly intervals, and the Beijing plus twenty review in 2015 is why the term returned to the news in this period. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and the East Asia Summit all issue declarations, but none produced this one.

Source

United Nations material on the history of the world conferences on women.

How to crack it

The phrase Platform for Action is characteristic United Nations conference vocabulary rather than the language of a security or trade grouping, so the institutional family can be read off the title. Combine that with the plus notation convention, where Beijing plus twenty points back to a 1995 conference in Beijing. Learning the naming grammar of international documents, declaration, platform, protocol, communique, lets you place unfamiliar texts without recalling them.

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