Prelims 2015 · Current Affairs · Question 79
'Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action', often seen in the news, is
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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.