This paper on gender and cartography attempts to accomplish a number of goals - it explores the UN's rote in promoting gender equality ; touches on social cartography ; attempts to explain what gender issues are and why ...

This proposal is about enhancing the effectiveness of ECA work on one of its key cross-cutting foci: promotion of women in development in Africa through: (a) direct programmes and (b) mainstreaming of gender concerns in ...

This brief paper introduces a discussion on some of the conceptual issues which determine whether or not African women can improve their access to and control of information and communication technologies. Recommendations ...

The case for enhancing women's role in the peace process has been made at various for a at all levels. Meeting to discuss the practicalities of setting up and operationalizing a regional mechanism for the full participation ...

The growing and increasing participation and visibility of women from all over the world in various international fora in this decade - Rio (1992), Vienna (1993), Cairo (1994), Copenhagen (1995) and Beijing (1995) - has ...

This paper presents A Study of the economic empowerment of women and their role in the socio-economic development of Africa held in August 1996, at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in September 1995 called the World's attention to twelve critical areas of concern which need to be seriously addressed for accelerating the advancement of women. These ...