Independent women : the story of women’s activism in East Timor

> Progressio, 2005, £11.95

The story of women’s activism in East Timor with comparative chapters on Cambodia, Mozambique and Namibia. This book tells the story of how East Timorese women activists mobilised against a patriarchal society and claimed their right to participate in their new independent and democratic nation. Drawing on personal research and extensive interviews with women activists in East Timor, the authors explore the history and contribution of the East Timorese women’s movement during and after the (...) read

date of on-line publication : 20 March 2007

Changing the stream : a backgrounder on the women’s movement in India

> by Shubha Chacko, Paperback Print , 2001, 163 p., $12 outside India

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This publication outlines the nature and constituents of the Movement, as also its engagement with the State, with various institutions and its bid to influence and rewrite agendas. It captures the various strands that make up the women’s movement and proceeds to look at where we are now before finally setting out some of the challenges facing us. read

date of on-line publication : 13 November 2006

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United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty

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This report marks the fifth anniversary of the UN Millennium Declaration and the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. It argues that unless governments and policymakers pay more attention to employment, and its links to poverty, the campaign to make poverty history will not succeed, and the hope for gender equality will founder on the reality of women’s growing economic insecurity. read

date of on-line publication : 17 November 2005