87.12IC Progress Review on the Forward Looking Strategies
Noting that three major United Nations World Conferences in Mexico City (1975), Copenhagen (1980), and Nairobi (1985) have done much to raise the awareness of the problems faced by women in the world;
Recalling that important statements were accepted at the Conferences which include the Mexico Plan of Action, the Copenhagen Program of Action, and the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies, as well as the United Nations Convention on all forms of Discrimination Against Women;
Recognizing that in certain parts of the world there has been marked retrogression in the improvement of the status of women;
Aware that major world conferences give strong impetus to improve the understanding of the problems faced by women, to the subsequent improvement in their status, and to the increased goodwill in the world;
Recommends to the International Council of Women support of a United Nations World Conference to review progress on the Forward Looking Strategies adopted at the 1985 United Nations End of Decade Conference in Nairobi;
Recommends that the International Council of Women urge the National Councils support such a Conference.