• First UN Conference on Women, held in Mexico City in 1975
• Second UN Conference on Women, held in Copenhagen in 1980
• Third UN Conference on Women held in Nairobi in 1985 produced the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategy for the Advancement of Women to the Year 2000.
• UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992)
• World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, 1993)
• International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994)
• World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995)
• The Fourth UN Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)
• Millennium Development Goals (2000)

Conventions

• The Convention on the Political Rights of Women (1952)
• The Convention on the Nationality of Married Women (1957)
• The Convention on Recovery Abroad of Maintenance (1956)
• The Convention on the Consent to Marriage (1962)
• The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)