Let me read the specific paragraph which I believe are very key when we discussed violence against women and the broadening of the definitions. First of all, this is paragraph 113.

"113 . The term "violence against women" means any act of gender based violence that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life. Accordingly, violence against women encompasses but is not limited to the following:

(a) Physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, including battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence and violence related to exploitation".

Second, maybe ground breaking element that I'd like to emphasize was that, it acknowledged women's unremunerated work. This is work at home, in family farms, in small business enterprises and called for the development of methodologies for measuring women' s work and reflecting it in national accounts.

The background here is very simple, that women do a lot of work, as a matter of fact, measures a United Nations Statistics have shown that if you count work that women do in the formal sector as well as what she does in the informal sector and at home, she really works much longer hours than men. But in any type of formal account, you will see that women's work is recorded as being less and certainly, women's contribution to the economy is recorded as a much less than it actually is.

The United Nations Development Program in their last Human Development report, emphasized this very strongly. And it is said that if you count the work that women do which is unpaid for and you give it a monetary value, the, the gross domestic product of countries will go up by about 30 percent.

A third breakthrough I believe is, it brought women's sexual rights within the parameters of human rights.

May I quote from very significant paragraph again in the "Platform for Action, paragraph 96.

"96. The human rights of women include their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, Equal relationships between women and men in matters of sexual relations and reproduction, including full respect for the integrity of the person, require mutual respect, consent and shared responsibility for sexual behavior and its consequences."
Fourth, it affirmed the rights of the girl child, addressed issues of discrimination against her and sought protection for her from all forms of abuse and exploitation.