Mitchell, Suzette

Women and girls with diverse disabilities have been largely neglected in the World Conference on Women (WCW) documents in the decades preceding the Fourth WCW in Beijing in 1995, which endorsed the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), and the subsequent five-yearly implementation reports up to and including the report for Beijing+30. Although the Beijing WCW […]

This article is written as a series of organic conversations between four women working in gender and climate change in south-east Asia. It is situated through storytelling of an Indigenous Bunong woman from Cambodia and a woman of Hmong ethnicity from Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). They discuss the inequitable effects of climate change on […]

The author expands on the four ingredients `feminist-flavoured gender-sensitive development’ should have: Strategic needs of women; Agenda-setting direction to mainstreaming; Flexibility; and Empowerment philosophy (`SAFE’). This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.