Resources: Beijing +25

This article, from the founder of Malawi’s Young Feminists Network, shares the writer’s experience of participating in the recent Young Women’s Regional Consultation, in Abidjan. The aim of the consultation was to enable dialogue between today’s young people and those who were young at the time of the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, to […]

This article considers progress made in research, theory, and measurement of feminist progress, it recalls the promises made at the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and asks if there is potential for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their commitment to gender mainstreaming to offer the measurement framework that the BPfA lacked. We start with […]

In 2020, the United Nations will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women when 189 countries signed on to the Beijing Platform for Action. This must be a game-changing year, an opportunity for the feminist and women’s movement to produce a transformative framework and new alliances. Soon-Young Yoon and Melissa Upreti, […]