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The globalisation of the economy

01/10/1994

9 pages long

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Free trade benefits developed nations’ economies to the detriment of developing countries. Southern women’s organisations are uniting to challenge their negative experiences of the global economic system. They want access to policy-making institutions and communicative technologies, to bring about redistribution of wealth, equal access to resources, and their own empowerment. Yet the division is ‘winners/losers’ […]

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A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

01/10/1994

5 pages long

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A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

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Latin American women from all walks of life are organising against issues that oppress them, from debt and industrialisation to gender based violence. Entre Mujeres (Among Women) unites women’s NGOs to influence funding agencies and Governments, and to create ties between Southern and European women. This North-South co-operation needs to be extended. The South is […]

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Building alliances

01/10/1994

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Northern countries continue to harm the South and East, despite being dependent on them. In the past Southern civil society taught Northern counterparts, organisations and networks provided links between and within the three regions. But now the South has lost its unity, NGOs and groups are losing their way, state and legal structures and civil […]

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Treading new paths

01/10/1994

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Oxfam’s ‘Women Linking for Change Conference’ aimed to make Southern women’s needs central to its programmes. This article explains how. The conference’s methodology was designed and implemented by Southern women. ‘Cycles’ to share information made the conference participatory rather then hierarchical. There were three cycles with clear objectives for each, as well as panel discussions, […]

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Facilitating women’s participation in UN conferences

01/10/1994

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Facilitating women’s participation in UN conferences

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This article outlines why the ‘Women’s Environment and Development Organisation’ (WEDO) was formed, in the context of the end of the Cold War and worsening environmental degradation. 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 […]

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Women linking for change

01/10/1994

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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 […]

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Of borders, bridges and sisterhood

01/10/1994

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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 […]

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International lobbying for change

01/10/1994

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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 […]

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Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

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Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

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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 […]

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Introduction

01/10/1994

5 pages long

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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.

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