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Women, Development, and the UN

Author : Devaki Jain
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111845
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Women, Development, and the UN written by Devaki Jain and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs

Author : Jutta M. Joachim
Publisher : Advancing Human Rights
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs written by Jutta M. Joachim and published by Advancing Human Rights. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, when the United Nations adopted positions affirming a woman's right to be free from bodily harm and to control her own reproductive health, it was both a coup for the international women's rights movement and an instructive moment for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seeking to influence UN decision making. Prior to the UN General Assembly's 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women and the 1994 decision by the UN's Conference on Population and Development to vault women's reproductive rights and health to the forefront of its global population growth management program, there was little consensus among governments as to what constituted violence against women and how much control a woman should have over reproduction. Jutta Joachim tells the story of how, in the years leading up to these decisions, women's organizations got savvy--framing the issues strategically, seizing political opportunities in the international environment, and taking advantage of mobilizing structures--and overcame the cultural opposition of many UN-member states to broadly define the two issues and ultimately cement women's rights as an international cause. Joachim's deft examination of the documents, proceedings, and actions of the UN and women's advocacy NGOs--supplemented by interviews with key players from concerned parties, and her own participant-observation--reveals flaws in state-centered international relations theories as applied to UN policy, details the tactics and methods that NGOs can employ in order to push rights issues onto the UN agenda, and offers insights into the factors that affect NGO influence. In so doing, Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs departs from conventional international relations theory by drawing on social movement literature to illustrate how rights groups can motivate change at the international level.

The Unfinished Story of Women and the United Nations

Author : Hilkka Pietil'a
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 : 9789211011791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Story of Women and the United Nations written by Hilkka Pietil'a and published by UN. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers more than eighty-five years of history between women and inter-governmental organisations. Unrecorded by history and untold by the media, this book looks at the success of women within the League of Nations and the United Nations, for the advancement and empowerment of women, especially in the 30 years since the first UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975.

Development Crises and Alternative Visions

Author : Gita Sen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134156820
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Development Crises and Alternative Visions written by Gita Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.

Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016 Summary

Author : UN Women
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 : 9781632140159
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016 Summary written by UN Women and published by UN. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This UN Women's flagship report shows that, all too often, women's economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit into a 'man's world'. But, it is possible to move beyond the status quo, to picture a world where economies are built with women's rights at their heart. It is being published as the international community comes together to define a transformative post-2015 development agenda, and coincides with the 20th anniversary commemoration of the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China which set out a comprehensive agenda to advance gender equality. This publication brings together human rights and economic policymaking, and provides the key elements for a far-reaching new policy agenda that can transform economies and make women's rights a reality. Through solid in-depth analysis and data, this evidence-based report provides key recommendations on moving towards an economy that truly works for women, for the benefit of all.

Peace as a Woman's Issue

Author : Harriet Hyman Alonso
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815625650
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Peace as a Woman's Issue written by Harriet Hyman Alonso and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the ideologies and personalities of the feminist peace movement in the US. This study explores: connections between militarism and violence against women; women as the mothers of society; women as naturally responsible citizens; and the desire to be independent of male control.

Gender, Peace and Security

Author : Louise Olsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317627946
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Peace and Security written by Louise Olsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in October 2000, the first thematic resolution on Women, Peace and Security. How should we understand women’s participation in peace processes and in peace operations? And what forms of gendered security dynamics are present in armed conflict and international interventions? These questions represent central themes of protection and participation that the international community has to address in order to implement UNSCR 1325. Thus far, the implementation has often employed varying approaches related to gender mainstreaming, a third theme of the resolution. Yet, there is a dearth of systematic data which until recently has restricted the ability of researchers to evaluate the progress in implementation and impact of UNSCR 1325. By engaging with both empirics and critical theory, the authors of this edited volume make important contributions to the gender, peace and security agenda. They identify some of the problems of implementing UNSC 1325 and offer a sobering assessment of progress of implementation and insights into how to advance our understanding through systematic research. Many of the chapters are focused on operational aspects of UNSCR 1325, but all also engage with the theoretical underpinnings of UNSCR 1325 to bring forth central debates on more fundamental challenges to the development of knowledge in the fields of gender, peace and security. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, peace and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.

International Women's Year

Author : Jocelyn Olcott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190649984
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book International Women's Year written by Jocelyn Olcott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in history." The event drew an all-star cast of characters, including Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Iranian Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, and US feminist Betty Friedan, as well as a motley array of policymakers, activists, and journalists. International Women's Year, the first book to examine this critical moment in feminist history, starts by exploring how organizers juggled geopolitical rivalries and material constraints amid global political and economic instability. The story then dives into the action in Mexico City, including conflicts over issues ranging from abortion to Zionism. The United Nations provided indispensable infrastructure and support for this encounter, even as it came under fire for its own discriminatory practices. While participants expressed dismay at levels of discord and conflict, Jocelyn Olcott explores how these combative, unanticipated encounters generated the most enduring legacies, including women's networks across the global south, greater attention to the intersectionalities of marginalization, and the arrival of women's micro-credit on the development scene. This watershed moment in transnational feminism, colorfully narrated in International Women's Year, launched a new generation of activist networks that spanned continents, ideologies, and generations.

U.S. Contribution to the U.N. Decade for Women

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Contribution to the U.N. Decade for Women written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Women Matter

Author : Hilkka Pietilä
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856494588
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Making Women Matter written by Hilkka Pietilä and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the documents and structures that exist within the United Nations concerning women in the development process. This edition has been updated to cover the post-Beijing period. It includes a new introduction and a commentary on the Fourth World Conference on Women and what it achieved.

Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?

Author : Paul Veyne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226854342
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? written by Paul Veyne and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-06-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Greek mythology and a discussion about how religion and truth have evolved throughout time.

Employment, Growth, and Basic Needs

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : New York : Published for the Overseas Development Council [by] Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Employment, Growth, and Basic Needs written by International Labour Office and published by New York : Published for the Overseas Development Council [by] Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women and Globalization

Author : Delia D. Aguilar
Publisher : Humanities Press International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Women and Globalization written by Delia D. Aguilar and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana have assembled a collection of articles showing the various ways in which the neoliberal agenda of globalization has drawn women into productive labor and in the process radically reshaped their lives in the reproductive sphere. Implemented primarily through the structural adjustment programs required by international financial agencies, neoliberalism has intensified women's exploitation on the assembly line and spawned an unprecedented diaspora of women as mail-order brides, domestic helpers, and workers in the sex trade. Many of the essays describe the appalling conditions that characterize these work sites. Not less important, they underscore the vitality of grassroots organizations where women collectively wage battles for better work lives and envision a system more humane than what currently exists.

Integration of Women in Development

Author : Ester Boserup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Integration of Women in Development written by Ester Boserup and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The European Community's Social Policy

Author :
Publisher : Bruxelles: Commission of the European Communities
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The European Community's Social Policy written by and published by Bruxelles: Commission of the European Communities. This book was released on 1978 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Parliament

Author : Julie Ballington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Women in Parliament written by Julie Ballington and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers Handbook covers the ground of women's access to the legislature in three steps: It looks into the obstacles women confront when entering Parliament be they political, socio-economic or ideological and psychological. It presents solutions to overcome these obstacles, such as changing electoral systems and introducing quotas, and it details strategies for women to influence politics once they are elected to parliament, an institution which is traditionally male dominated. The first Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers handbook was produced as part of IDEA's work on women and political participation in 1998. Since its release in English in 1998, there has been an ongoing interest and demand for the handbook, and responding to the request for the translation of the handbook, IDEA has produced Spanish, French and Indonesian language versions and a Russian overview of the handbook during 2002-2003. Since the first handbook was published, the picture regarding women's political participation has slowly changed. Overall the past decade has seen gradual progress with regard to women's presence in national parliaments. This second edition incorporates relevant global changes in the past years presenting new and updated case studies.--

World Urbanization Prospects

Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789211483192
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book World Urbanization Prospects written by United Nations Publications and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report presents findings from the 2018 revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rural populations or areas from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2050, as well as estimates of population size from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2030 for all urban agglomerations with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018. The world urban population is at an all-time high, and the share of urban dwellers, is projected to represent two thirds of the global population in 2050. Continued urbanization will bring new opportunities and challenges for sustainable development.