Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice

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211 Index Note: Page numbers in italics indicate tables and charts. Abzug, Bella, 141 academia, 34 accounting systems, 38, 95, 118, 144 Achebe, Chinua, 104 activism, 2–3, 22, 100 Adedeji, Adebayo, 99–100, 101 Adeleye-Fayemi, Bisi, 160, 161 affirmative action, 47, 90, 91, 148 Africa. See also specific countries and colonialism, 28 and decolonization, 24–25 and development programs, 55 and gender quotas, 146–47 and Lagos Plan of Action, 98–101 research efforts in, 32, 76, 100 and UNESCO, 63, 64 women in leadership roles, 150 women in the labor force, 77 African Alternative Framework, 184n7 African Development Bank, 99 African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW), 9, 98–101 African Women in Crisis Programme, 128 African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), 123–25 African Women’s Development Fund, 160 Agenda, 21, 126 agriculture, 52, 54, 100, 108, 109 Aguiar, Neuma, 98 Ahmad, Zubeida, 98 Ahmedabad, India, 116 AIDS, 129, 134, 153, 164 Akayesu verdict, 154 Ali, Shareefah Hamid, 16 All Africa Women’s Conference (AAWC), 55, 98 All India Women’s Conference, 26 Americans for Community Co-operation in Other Nations (ACCION), 139 Americas, 146. See also specific countries Anker, Richard, 76 Anstee, Margaret, 155, 181–82n59 Anthony, Susan B., 11 anthropological studies, 63 Antrobus, Peggy, 98, 119–20 Antzetik, K’inal, 115 apartheid, 86, 92 Arab League, 48 Arab states, 146. See also specific countries Arab Women’s Commission, 48 Arizpe, Lourdes, 167 arms race, 81 Asia, 32, 61, 63, 77, 146. See also specific countries Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion (ARTEP), 77 Asian Women’s Research and Action Network (AWRAN), 119, 124 Aslaksen, Iulie, 38 Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), 124, 161 Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD), 97, 100, 119, 124, 161 Australia, 5 Baden, Sally, 158 Baghdad conference. See Conference of Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries on the Role of Women Ballantyne, Edith, 87 Banerjee, Nirmala, 98 Index 212 Bangalore Group, 96 Bangladesh, 114, 148 banking, 68, 116 Barefoot Economics (Max-Neef), 110 Barriteau, Eudine, 161 Basic Income Grant, 117 Begtrup, Bodil, 13, 16, 18–19, 22–23, 31 Beijing conference. See Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) Bellamy, Carol, 104 Bernardino, Minerva, 12–14, 43 Bertini, Catherine, 104 best-practices research, 79 Bhargava, Rajeev, 167, 168 Bhatt, Ela, 117 Bhavnani, Kum-Kum, 168 birth control. See family issues and planning Bleie, Tone, 98 Boserup, Esther, 44, 51–55, 62, 78 Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 68 Brazil, 13 Bretton Woods institutions, 103. See also International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Bank Bruce, Judith, 140 Bruce, Margaret, 13, 35, 49, 173n67 Brundtland, Gro Harlem, 36, 104 Bunch, Charlotte, 126, 144 Burma, 32 Burundi, 154 Çagatay, Nilüfer, 37 Canada, 91 Canadian International Development Agency, 156 capitalism, 80, 102 Caribbean Community (CARICOM), 80 cash cropping, 54 Casselman, Cora T., 12 Castillo Ledon, Amalia C. de, 16 caucuses, 122–27 Center for Gender and Development Studies, 161 Challenge to the South (South Commission), 105 Charlesworth, Hilary, 148–49 Charter conference (San Francisco). See United Nations Conference on International Organization (San Francisco) Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, 73 children’s issues, 27, 28, 36, 137 China, 105, 148 citizenship, 51 Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 141 Cold War and Copenhagen conference on women , 86 end of, 103 and human rights issues, 29 and Mexico City conference, 70 and Non-Aligned Movement, 81, 83 and peace agenda, 42 collective action, 3 colonialism and cultural issues, 168 and development agenda, 36 and Gandhi, 3 and human rights issues, 28–29 and independence movements, 3, 23, 24, 25, 44, 51, 75, 83, 100–101 and modernization, 51 neocolonialism, 83, 101 and Non-Aligned Movement, 80–81, 83 and political rights, 23–24 Comite Social des Ouveres de la Resistance (COSOR), 13 Commission of Experts (Yugoslav Commission ), 121 Commission on Human Rights, 17, 19 Commission on Social Development, 55 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), 131–34 and CEDAW, 87–88 and cultural issues, 27–28 data collection, 30–32 and DEDAW, 45–48 and developing countries, 174n5 and development programs, 55–56 equality efforts, 25, 46 influence in UN system, 44 and Jiagge, 68 and labor conditions, 30 and Long-Term Program, 48–49, 50 and Mexico City conference, 44, 66 Index 213 origin and role of, 15–20 policy successes, 156 and population policy, 58–62 seminal documents, 7 support of women’s issues, 6...