Many treaties have already been established by the United Nations, but the impact is hardly visible. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women of 1979 is noted for inactivity, and for having the shortest annual sessions of all the human rights treaty bodies. The Covenant on Human Rights needed to be mentioned in other treaties, after only three years, because of stagnant performance toward its aims. The Report of the World Conference of the International Women's Year, held in Mexico City in 1975, basically states that improved regional status depends upon organizations. A final and extreme example recorded in The United Nations and the Advancement of Women: 1945-1996 is evident in Document 134, the General Assembly resolution on Rape and Abuse of Women in the Areas of Armed Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia of 1995. The strongest action this treaty makes is to urge intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to "extend their support to the community-based assistance programmes." External military forces protection comes close to provoking war, and international laws are difficult to enforce judicially.
Nongovernmental Organizations exist all over the world and encourage change from the grassroots level. Many First World individuals of higher esteem and position reach back to help other struggling nations, and most rely on the idea that communication is their most powerful tool against all forms of oppression. There are so many successful NGOs in every nation that we only provided cases of three countries. International support from the World Bank and International Monetary Foundation could vastly improve the progress of the NGOs.
Without support of internationally connected women, the struggle to be heard would fall on deaf, male-dominated, governmental ears. Women are finding the media and influence of other international women's organizations to be the key factor in their fight for equality.