The Dag Hammarskj?ld Library has digitized 692 documents¡ª17,098 pages¡ªcovering the 1980 UN Women¡¯s Conference, now fully accessible in the UN Digital Library. Available in all official UN languages, these records preserve a pivotal moment in the global effort for women¡¯s equality and rights.
The ¡°World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace¡± convened in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 14 to 30 July 1980 and marked the second global gathering on women during the United Nations Decade for Women (1976¨C1985), serving as a mid-decade review of progress made since the first World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975.
Attended by 145 Member States, the Conference adopted a calling for stronger national measures to ensure women¡¯s ownership and control of property, as well as improvements in protecting women¡¯s rights to inheritance, child custody and nationality.
Thanks to the Library¡¯s digitization work, researchers, policymakers, and the public can now explore these historical documents online, ensuring that decades of progress in women¡¯s rights remain accessible for future generations.
These documents, identified by the series symbol A/CONF.94/¨C, are now freely accessible in the .
