ID: 1995-I-SEV-GLO-FR
Reference: The Social Summit: A Gender Perspective. (1995). INSTRAW News, No. 22, 24.
Year: 1995
Description:
This issue of INSTRAW News offers a broad overview of how gender issues have evolved, beginning with the adoption of the UN Charter fifty years ago, then the first International Women's Conference in Mexico City in 1975, and the changes which resulted. A review and analysis of specific gender issues follow, as seen through the prism of the three core items on the Social Summit Agenda, attacking poverty, creating jobs and building social solidarity. Articles included focus on the following topics: the Social Summit, road to equal partnership, unequal burden of poverty, women's double burden, women on the margins, and the message from the UN50 Secretariat.
Instraw's Mandate: Information dissemination
Theme: Several
Keywords: Women and Development, Poverty , Participation
Geographic Area: Global
Languages: French
Type of Product: INSTRAW News
Disponibility: Printed
LinkToFile: PDF FILE