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Building Feminist Movements and Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Building Feminist Movements and Organizations

The struggle for the advancement of women's rights and gender equality globally is impossible without strong women's organizations and movements to provide leadership and momentum. But what does a strong women's organization look like? And what does it take to create effective and sustainable women's movements? This groundbreaking collection of essays by activists from all corners of the globe explores what it means to be an influential women's organization, and what it takes to build the kinds of movements needed to transform women's lives. From how to build successful participatory democratic processes and implement shared leadership models, to lessons on overcoming internal organizational divisions, the case studies in this collection focus not only on the "what" but also the "how" of movement building. Those concerned with how to effect sustainable change will find not only much food for thought, but also an abundance of creative ideas and innovative strategies - served up with a uniquely feminist twist.

Tunza
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Tunza

Tunza was developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) who acknowledged the need for a book to stimulate environmental action among young people. Through participatory discussions and suggestions,particularly from participants at the Global Youth Forum held in Denmark in March 2002, young people from around the world helped to produce a book that would provide them and their contemporaries with a reference and forum on key environmental issues. The aim being to motivate and guide young people on actions they can take in their local communities to help sustainable development.

Feminist Strategies in International Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Feminist Strategies in International Governance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The contributors to this volume provide a survey of the existing gender machineries on the international level, explore the way in which feminist movements have approached international organizations and the way IOs have responded, and examine the laws and norms that have been produced and their effects in local contexts globally.

Movement Or Market?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Movement Or Market?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-10-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women’s organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. This book takes what some have called "global civil society" as its object, moving beyond both dire predictions and euphoric celebrations to understand how transnational political relationships are constructed and sustained across social and geographical divides. It also provides a compelling case study for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in globalization, gender studies, and social movements.

Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

African women’s history is a vast topic that embraces a wide variety of societies in over 50 countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. Africa is a predominantly agricultural continent, and a major factor in African agriculture is the central role of women as farmers. It is estimated that between 65 and 80 percent of African women are engaged in cultivating food for their families, and in the past that percentage was likely even higher. Thus, one common thread across much of the continent is women’s daily work in their family plot. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introdu...

Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference

From the diverse work and often competing insights of women's human rights activists, Brooke Ackerly has written a feminist and a universal theory of human rights that bridges the relativists' concerns about universalizing from particulars and the activists' commitment to justice. Unlike universal theories that rely on shared commitments to divine authority or to an 'enlightened' way of reasoning, Ackerly's theory relies on rigorous methodological attention to difference and disagreement. She sets out human rights as at once a research ethic, a tool for criticism of injustice and a call to recognize our obligations to promote justice through our actions. This book will be of great interest to political theorists, feminist and gender studies scholars and researchers of social movements.

Talking about Terrorism - Risks and Choices for HR Organisations (summary)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 16

Talking about Terrorism - Risks and Choices for HR Organisations (summary)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: ICHRP

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Catching the Wind - Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

Catching the Wind - Human Rights

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: ICHRP

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Talking about Terrorism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

Talking about Terrorism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: ICHRP

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U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights

U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights explores the integration of American concerns about women's human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy.