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WEDO organises women’s caucuses to ensure that the UN addresses the needs of women worldwide. Another major success of caucuses is their inclusion of grassroots women and newly […] View resource Journal article Women linking for change 01/10/1994 5 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender mainstreaming Gender-based violence Overview This article recounts experiences of Oxfam’s ‘Women’s Linking Project’ (WLP). This has evolved from organising at regional level, to raising the profile of gender as a development issue in North and South. One main aim is to integrate a Southern understanding of gender into Northern policies. Two current priorities for WLP are examined in this […] View resource Journal article Of borders, bridges and sisterhood 01/10/1994 4 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender mainstreaming Overview When Southern women united under the ‘Women’s Linking Project’ (WLP), they found they had as many similarities as differences. Greatest of these was colonial influence. The author shows how development programmes are still imperialistic and continue to subjugate women. Furthermore, she sees poverty in all its forms as a direct result of neo-liberal economic policies […] View resource Journal article International lobbying for change 01/10/1994 4 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender mainstreaming World Bank and IMF Overview Obtaining recognition of domestic violence as a rights issue at the recent UN ‘World Conference on Human Rights’, was due largely to activism worldwide. It is hopeful that activism can also secure results in the 1995 ‘World Conference on Women’. Lieshout examines how activism worked for the UN Conference, with a global petition and NGO […] View resource Journal article Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994 01/10/1994 4 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender mainstreaming Gender-based violence Overview We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […] View resource Journal article Introduction 01/10/1994 5 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender mainstreaming Overview This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website. View resource Journal article Children as a resource: environmental degradation and fertility 01/06/1994 6 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Livelihoods Sexual and reproductive health and rights SRHR Overview This article explores how the environment – albeit indirectly – is one determinant of women’s fertility. Environmental degradation, for example, forces communities to seek alternative livelihoods, which may lead women to desire more children for the economic value they bring. Another factor is access to and management of natural resources, and how these are used […] View resource Journal article Women’s health and feminist politics 01/06/1994 4 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Sexual and reproductive health and rights SRHR Overview SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […] View resource Journal article Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study 01/06/1994 10 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Maternal and child health Sexual and reproductive health and rights SRHR Overview Smyth uncovers the pros and cons of family planning as a way of reducing maternal mortality. She finds no evidence that such a link exists in Indonesia. The ‘Safe Motherhood’ programme in Indonesia focuses on family planning for women at high risk. But the programme excludes unmarried women, sex workers, and ill or infertile women, […] View resource Journal article Rape in South Africa: an invisible part of apartheid’s legacy 01/06/1994 5 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender-based violence Protection Overview In apartheid South Africa, rape became not only acceptable but also legitimised. The law recognises rape only in limited instances and fails to take effective preventative or punitive action. So expected is the violence that schoolgirls sometimes assist rapists. Armstrong links rape to poverty, race and class, with poor black women being targeted most often. […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know