The Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies
for the Advancement of Women

Introduction

1. Historical Background

2. Substantive background of the Forward-looking Strategies

3. Current trends and perspectives to the year 2000

4. Basic approach to the formulation of the Forward-looking Strategies

I. Equality

1. Obstacles

2. Basic strategies

3. Measures for the implementation of the basic strategies at the national level

II. Development

1. Obstacles

2. Basic strategies

3. Measures for the implementation of the basic strategies at the national level

III. Peace

1. Obstacles

2. Basic strategies

3. Women and children under apartheid

4. Palestinian women and children

5. Women in areas affected by armed conflicts, foreign intervention and threats to peace

6. Measures for the implementation of the basic strategies at the national level

IV. Areas of Special Concern

1. Women in areas affected by drought

2. Urban poor women

3. Elderly women

4. Young women

5. Abused women

6. Destitute women

7. Women victims of trafficking and involuntary prostitution

8. Women deprived of their traditional means of livelihood

9. Women who are the sole supporters of families

10. Women with physical and mental disabilities

11. Women in detention and subject to penal law

12. Refugee and displaced women and children

13. Migrant women

14. Minority and "indigenous" women

V. International and Regional Co-operation

1. Obstacles

2. Basic strategies

3. Measures for the implementation of the basic strategies