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 (1976–1985).
It served 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 Programme of Action 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.
Preserving Progress
As part of its mission to preserve and provide access to historical United Nations documents, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library has completed a comprehensive digitization project covering the documents of the 1980 Conference in all official UN languages.
In total, 692 documents—amounting to 17,098 pages—have been digitized.
Explore the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women:
These documents, identified by the series symbol A/CONF.94/–, are now freely accessible in the Digital Library.
