Volume 46. Issue 4: Beijing+20: Where Now for Gender Equality
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Introduction: Beijing+20 – Where now for Gender Equality?
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) is 20 years old. This introduction revisits the promises of the Beijing conference and reflects on how these have materialised amidst broader changes in the political ... -
Myths to Live By: Beijing Narratives
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)The author draws on her own experience as a feminist bureaucrat involved in the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing to make the case for multiple feminist narratives of Beijing that woven together can create ... -
Beyond the Rhetoric of Choice: Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment in Developed Countries
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)In preparing for the 20?year review of the Beijing Platform for Action on women's economic empowerment, both formal policy documents and media coverage in developed countries such as the Netherlands resonate with the ... -
Rural Women's Empowerment through Employment from the Beijing Platform for Action Onwards
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)This article provides a critical analysis of the conceptualisation of women's empowerment through employment (and later decent work) from the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the ... -
Wearing Platform Shoes: How the Platform for Action Changed our Lives, and how Women's Lives have Changed since the Platform for Action
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)In this article the author reflects on her personal experience from being at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, and the study and work she has done since this time on the implementation of the Beijing ... -
‘To Beijing and Back’: Reflections on the Influence of the Beijing Conference on Popular Notions of Women's Empowerment in Ghana
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was a pivotal moment for legitimating women's rights work in Ghana and served as a powerful framing for women's empowerment. This article explores the Beijing conference ... -
Feminist Movements and the Gender Economic Agenda in Latin America
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)In Latin America, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing represents a milestone in the history of the feminist and women's movements. Twenty years have passed and despite important achievements in gender equality, ... -
Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls' Education: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Post?Beijing Platform for Action
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)This article examines how girls' education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the ‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial processes ... -
Beijing, Gender and Environment – Challenges for Ecological Sustainability, Development and Justice?
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)Twenty years ago the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted to ‘… advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere …’ (Beijing Declaration, 1995, paragraph 3). Sustainable ... -
Gendered Rights in the Post?2015 Development and Disasters Agendas
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)This article explores how, 20 years after the Beijing conference, women's rights are being discussed within processes to develop a post?2015 sustainable development agenda and the parallel international disaster risk ... -
Beyond Tinkering with the System: Rethinking Gender, Power and Politics
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)This article offers some reflections on how the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) theme of women and decision?making power came to be translated into a set of policy directions, and what their implementation suggests ... -
Gender Mainstreaming Critiques: Signposts or Dead Ends?
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)An enduring legacy of the Beijing conference, gender mainstreaming has been widely implemented and widely critiqued since the 1990s. But the basis of these critiques has changed over time: this article charts a typology ... -
No Shortcuts to Shifting Deep Structures in Organisations
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)In the late 1990s an international feminist network, Gender at Work, wrote about the ‘deep structure’ of organisations through which gender discriminatory norms and power relations are reproduced. In this article, the ... -
Big Plans, Small Steps: Learnings from Three Decades of Mobilising Resources for Women's Rights
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)The women's funding movement has contributed to and been a product of women's rights movements around the world. This article looks at the history of Mama Cash, the first international women's fund, to chart how the effort ... -
Twenty Years after Beijing: Can Promises be Turned into Progress?
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)Twenty years since the landmark women's conference at Beijing, and as the post?2015 agenda is concluded, it is clear that there has been a significant increase in rhetoric from governments and even some notable achievements ... -
The Digital Age: A Feminist Future for the Queer African Woman
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)How can digital spaces make possible a feminist future for the queer African woman? Writing as the editors of a South African queer online space, HOLAA!, this article aims to draw attention to and discuss queer digital ... -
Glossary
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Brazilian Feminisms in Global Spaces: Beijing and Beijing+20
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)Within the last decades, feminist movements in Brazil have advanced significantly beyond borders, gaining increasing recognition in global spaces, UN ones in particular, for positively influencing Brazil's official position. ... -
If Not Now, When? Reasserting Beijing for a Progressive Women's Rights Agenda in 2015 and Beyond
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)Women's rights organisations have been central to progress on women's rights and gender equality since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). Drawing on interviews and a survey carried out ... -
Notes on Contributors
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