3.3 Global Response to the Welfare of Women

3.3.1 Historical Development (esp. under the UN System)The line: the 1945-Charter's-equality-mention (the "equal rights of men and women" — the founding-text) → the Commission-on-the-Status-of-Women (the 1946-organ (the standard-setter)) → the 1952-Conventions'-wave (the political-rights + the nationality (the early-treaties)) → the 1967-Declaration + the 1975-Mexico-Conference (the World-Conference's-first (the IWY) → the Decade-for-Women (1976-85 (the Copenhagen + the Nairobi (the forward-looking-strategies)))) → the 1995-Beijing-Conference (the Platform-for-Action (the twelve-critical-areas (the "women's rights are human rights" — the slogan-era)) → the Beijing+25-review-cycle (the anniversary-audits (the name-level)); The institutional-weave: the CSW + the DAW→UN-Women (the 2010- consolidation (the entity-for-gender-equality (the normative + the operational-joined))).3.3.2 International Legal InstrumentsThe CEDAW-1979 (the women's-convention (the "international bill of rights for women" — the discrimination-defined (the Art-1's-famous (the de-jure + the de-facto (the effect-not-only-the- form)))) + the substantive-equality's-machinery (the temporary-special-measures (the Art-4's-positive-action (the quota's-treaty-basis))) + the rural-women (the Art-14's-recognition) + the OP-1999 (the complaints-protocol)); The Nepal's-status: the ratified-1991 (the party-record- verified-in-the-gender-course (the reporting-cycle-ongoing)); The supporting-texts: the ICESCR (the socio-economic-floor) + the CRC's-girl-child + the ILO's-C100 (the equal-remuneration — the ratified) + the C138/C182-connections (the girl-labour's-bar).3.3.3 International InstitutionsThe CEDAW-Committee (the treaty-body (the state-reports (the constructive-dialogue (the shadow- reports'-civil-society-voice)))) + the CSW (the policy-forum (the agreed-conclusions' annual-ritual)) + the UN-Women (the operational-arm (the country-programmes (the Nepal's-own-office))) + the Special-Rapporteur-on-violence-against-women (the 1994-mandate (the name-level)) — the four- pillar-scaffold.