INCEST: Murder of the Soul: Chapter One violence are not able to reveal the depth of the problem, the declaration made sure to call on states to promote research, collect data and compile statistics, especially concerning domestic violence and relating to the prevalence of different forms of violence against women. It encouraged research on the causes, nature, seriousness and consequences of violence against women and on the effectiveness of measures implemented to prevent and redress violence against women. Whatever statistics were to be compiled and findings arrived at were also to be made available to the public. With the source of violence against women understood to be based on the prevalence of social and cultural concepts forwarding the superiority of men to women, the declaration was sure to include the call for states to adopt all appropriate measures, especially in the field of education, to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women. This would be part of a larger effort to attempt to eliminate prejudices, customary practices and all other practices which would be based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes and on stereotyped roles for men and women. 2. Resolution (1) of the Beijing World Conference on Women (September, 1995) The World Conference on Women was held in Beijing from 4 - 15 September 1995 on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, with the intention to advance equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the world. The aim of the platform for action was to achieve the full and effective implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women. These strategies were meant to promote the advancement of women, and eliminate obstacles to women’s active participation in all spheres of private and public life through a full and equal share in economic, social, political and cultural decision making. The platform also aimed to prevent all forms of violence against women throughout the different stages of their lives. It attached special attention to girl child in this context and urged states to implement the human rights of women and of the girl child as an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. Incest was discussed in the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in the context of molestation and sexual attraction within the family or outside the frame of the family. Furthermore, it stressed that states should adopt the appropriate measures that would prevent violence against women throughout the different stages of their lives, including violence within the family under any excuse, custom or religious consideration. It also urged states to fulfill their obligations to eliminate violence against women under the declaration on elimination of violence against women. States were asked to include into their national laws criminal and civil penalties or administrative penalties to punish those who caused harm to women and girls subjected to any form of violence in the family, workplace, local community or in the wider society. There were provision to provide redress for women against any damage and adopt and\or implement the laws set forth for eliminating and preventing violence against women and pursuing its perpetrators. States were urged to evaluate and analyze these laws on an ongoing basis to guarantee their effectiveness, adopt appropriate measures to ensure protection for women, enable them to have access to justice, redress, treatment and rehabilitate those who practiced violence against them. The Beijing Platform for Action called for implementation on the elimination of all 11