Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women

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Summarized in: Youth Sourcebook on Sustainable Development, Winnipeg : International Institute for Sustainable Development, 1995.

The Forward Looking Strategies call for:

Sexual equality

* the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
* equal rights under the law
* equal rights to marriage and divorce
* the establishment, in every country, of a high-level governmental body to monitor and implement progress towards equality

Women's automony and power

* the right of all women -- irrespective of marital status -- to buy, sell, own and administer property and other resources independently
* the protection of women's rights to land, credit, training, investment and income as an integral part of all agrarian reform and agricultural development
* the equal involvement of women, at every stage and level of development
* the promotion of women to positions of power at every level within all political and legislative bodies in order to achieve parity with men
* measures to promote equal distribution of productive resources and reduce mass poverty among women, particularly in terms of economic recession

Recognition of women's unpaid work

* recognition of the extent and value of women's unpaid work, inside and outside the home
* inclusion of women's paid and unpaid work in national accounts and economic statistics
* the sharing of domestic responsibilities
* the development of services, to reduce women's child-care and domestic workload, including introduction of incentives to encourage employers to provide child-care facilities for working parents
* the establishment of flexible working hours to encourage the sharing of child-care and domestic work between parents

Advances in women's paid work

* equal employment opportunities
* equal pay for work of equal value

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