Holding
on to the Promise: Women's Human Rights and the Beijing +5
Review
In
1995, delegates from 189 countries met in Beijing to participate
in the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Five
years later, in June 2000, they met again in New York to assess
progress towards ending discrimination against women. Holding
on to the Promise, by the Center for Women's Global Leadership,
takes a critical look at the Beijing +5 Review from the perspective
of women's human rights. It examines current trends in human
rights and women's international organizing, and provides
insightful analysis on the gains and losses of this latest
round of UN negotiations on women.
Edited
by Cynthia Meillón in collaboration with Charlotte Bunch,
Center for Women's Global Leadership, 2001; 200 pages. ISBN
0-9711412-0-7. US$20
Table
of Contents
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Beijing
+5: Beginning and Ending with Women's Human Rights, Cynthia
Meillón
The
Symposium
Introduction:
Imagine a World, Charlotte Bunch
Part
I: Current Challenges in Women's Human Rights
Women
2000: The Future of Human Rights, Mary Robinson
Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Response to
the Globalization Agenda, Piedad Córdoba
We Want it Paid with Interest!, Asma Jahangir
The Achievements and Challenges of the Women's Human Rights
Movement, Florence Butegwa
Let's Light Another Candle, Abena P A Busia
Part
II: Innovative Praxis
Section
1: Violence Against Women: New Strategies for Confronting
Discrimination and Abuse
Silence
the Complicity: Unmasking Abuses of Women's Human Rights in
the Peruvian Health Care System, Ivonne Macassi
Confronting Violence Against Women in the Whole of Society,
Duška Andric-Ruzicic
Organizing for Sexual Rights: The Namibian Women's Manifesto,
Elizabeth Khaxas
Redefining and Confronting "Honor Killings" as Femicide,
Nadera Shallhoub-Kevorkian
The Tokyo Tribunal: Confronting Rape and Sexual Violence as
War Crimes, Indai Sajor
Commentary
Challenging
Resistance to Women's Human Rights, Sunila Abeyesekera
Commentary
The
Only Thing We're Asking for is Implementation, Pierre Sané
Death Fireworks, Bojana Blagojevic
Section
2: Women's Economic Rights: Challenging the Structure of Injustice
Using
CEDAW to Fight for Women's Inheritance Rights, Sapana Pradham
Malla
African Women Refugees in the United Kingdom: Organizing Against
Oppression, Sarah Mukasa
Labor Rights with a Feminist Perspective: Organizing with
Workers in the Central American Maquila Industry, Olga
Rivas
Poverty in the Midst of Prosperity: Organizing for Economic
Rights in the United States, Joy Butts
Building a Culture of Women's Human Rights in Nigeria, Ayesha
Imam
Breakthrough-Using Popular Culture to Raise Social Awareness,
Mallika Dutt
Commentary
Holding
Both States and Private Sector Accountable, Pierre Sané
Commentary
Making
the Connections: Using Women's Experiences to Link Human Rights
Issues, Sunila Abeyesekera
Fin
de Milenio, Claroscuro
Beijing
+5 Analysis
Taking
Stock: Women's Human Rights Five Years After Beijing, Charlotte
Bunch
CEDAW and Beijing +5: Consolidating Women's Human Rights or
Backtracking on Commitments?, Cynthia Meillón
Beijing +5 and Violence and Women, Lisa Clarke
Reference to Trafficking in the Beijing +5 Document, Cynthia
Meillón
Beijing +5: Respecting, Promoting and Protecting Women's Diversities,
Lisa Clarke and Cynthia Rothchild
Women's Economic Rights: A Few Steps Forward and a Long Way
to Go, elmira Nazombe
Liberation,
Abena P A Busia
Appendix
A.
The Symposium Program
B. Summary of the Center for Women's Global Leadership's Beijing
+5 Activities
C. Women Prepare for the Beijing +5 Review
D. Working Paper on a Human Rights Based Approach to the Beijing
+5 Review
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