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Prelims 2015 · Current Affairs · Question 79

'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

Answer

an agenda for women's empowerment, an outcome of a World Conference convened by the United Nations

  • (a) Incorrect. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) is not an SCO document on terrorism; it came from the UN Fourth World Conference on Women.
  • (b) Incorrect. It is not an APEC/Asia-Pacific economic growth plan. Its focus is gender equality and women’s rights, not regional economic strategy.
  • (c) Correct. It is a global agenda for women’s empowerment and gender equality, adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995.
  • (d) Incorrect. It is unrelated to the East Asia Summit or wildlife trafficking; that is a different policy domain altogether.
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