Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Devaki Jain
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253111845
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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"Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the world -- and vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read." -- Gloria Steinem "Devaki Jain's book nurtures your optimism in this terrible war-torn decade by describing how women succeeded in empowering both themselves and the United Nations to work toward a global leadership inspired by human dignity." -- Fatema Mernissi In Women, Development, and the UN, internationally noted development economist and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its founding in 1945. Synthesizing insights from the extensive literature on women and development and from her own broad experience, Jain reviews the evolution of the UN's programs aimed at benefiting the women of developing nations and the impact of women's ideas about rights, equality, and social justice on UN thinking and practice regarding development. Jain presents this history from the perspective of the southern hemisphere, which recognizes that development issues often look different when viewed from the standpoint of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The book highlights the contributions of the four global women's conferences in Mexico City, Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing in raising awareness, building confidence, spreading ideas, and creating alliances. The history that Jain chronicles reveals both the achievements of committed networks of women in partnership with the UN and the urgent work remaining to bring equality and justice to the world and its women.

Author: United States. Delegation to the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development, and Peace, 1980, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Category : International Women's Decade, 1976-1985
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations
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Category : International Women's Decade, 1976-1985
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Arvonne S Fraser
Publisher: Westview Press
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Geschiedenis van de internationale vrouwenconferenties in Mexico (1975), Kopenhagen (1980) en Nairobi (1985)

Author: United States Women'S Bureau
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781379175162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Hilkka Pietilä
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This critical account of the United Nations' efforts on behalf of women over half a century, written by two acute observers of the UN system.

Author: Sabrina Karim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190602430
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Recent developments such as Sweden's' Feminist Foreign Policy, the "Hillary Doctrine," and the integration of women into combat roles in the U.S. have propelled gender equality to the forefront of international politics. The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, however, has been integrating gender equality into peacekeeping missions for nearly two decades as part of the women, peace and security agenda that has been most clearly articulated in UNSC Resolution 1325. To what extent have peacekeeping operations achieved gender equality in peacekeeping operations and been vehicles for promoting gender equality in post-conflict states? While there have been major improvements related to women's participation and protection, there is still much left to be desired. Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley argue that gender power imbalances between the sexes and among genders place restrictions on the participation of women in peacekeeping missions. Specifically, discrimination, a relegation of women to safe spaces, and sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, and violence (SEAHV) continue to threaten progress on gender equality. Using unique cross-national data on sex-disaggregated participation of peacekeepers and on the allegations of SEAHV, as well as original data from the UN Mission in Liberia, the authors examine the origins and consequences of these challenges. Karim and Beardsley also identify and examine how increasing the representation of women in peacekeeping forces, and even more importantly through enhancing a more holistic value for "equal opportunity," can enable peacekeeping operations to overcome the challenges posed by power imbalances and be more of an example of and vehicle for gender equality globally.

Author: Naomi B. Lynn
Publisher: Psychology Press
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Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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This thought-provoking volume, dedicated to the International Women's Decade, reflects the decade's themes of equality, peace, and development. Experts assess the progress that has been made, lament the failure of nations to take more steps to improve women's status, and analyze the divisive issues that have been at the forefront of concern and have limited the achievements of the two United Nations conferences on women. With its broad perspective of women's involvement in political systems and processes in the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Japan, this highly insightful book confirms the critical importance of culture in determining female political status and behavior. The chapters reflect the diversity that results from the different levels of general socioeconomic and political development of the nations in which the world's feminists live, and the importance of culture, economic factors, and ideologies in determining the variety of visions women have about the ultimate purposes of their lives and the social change being sought.

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Category : International Women's Decade, 1976-1985
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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