INSTRAW Library

Welcome to the INSTRAW LIBRARY, a compilation of around 600 publications produced by the former UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW), which served as the leading UN institute devoted to research, training and knowledge management to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. INSTRAW, along with DAW, OSAGI and UNIFEM, came together in 2010 to establish the present UN Women.

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The Legacy of INSTRAW

In addition to the INSTRAW Library, the UN Women Training Centre presents the publication “The legacy of INSTRAW in promoting the rights of women. A historical record of the Institute between 1976 and 2010”, which intends to pay tribute to the story of INSTRAW as well as to the women’s movements and governments which supported it.

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ID: 1997-I-TRA-GLO-FR
Reference: Training: a complementary factor to research making the Advancement of Women possible. (1997). INSTRAW News, No. 27, 48.
Year: 1997
Description: This issue of INSTRAW News analyzes training and capacity building, one of the two fundamental elements of its mandate received in 1975, when during the International Womens Year, the first global conference on women was held in Mexico in 1975. In addition, the International Womens Year, with a vision of the future, shaped the framework of the steps to be followed by the international community, by states and governments, by public and private institutions, by society, in general, and women in particular.
Instraw's Mandate: Information dissemination
Theme: Training
Keywords: Capacity building, International Women's Year, Human resources development
Geographic Area: Global
Languages: French
Type of Product: INSTRAW News
Disponibility: Printed
LinkToFile: PDF FILE