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 ...

Globalization is defined as a process through which finance, investment, production and marketing are increasingly dominated by firms whose vision and actions are not confined by national borders or national interests. ...

Abstract The Regional Conference on Women and Peace is perhaps the first of its kind to be held in Africa since the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, ...

The available research on violence against women1 concludes that this problem is a reality in African societies and families and that it is spreading. it is necessary to underline that research of the issue in African ...

To-date, forty-seven African countries have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. ● There is an increase in the participation of women in politics and decision-making . ...

The Expert Group Meeting on Gender Networking was convened by the African Centre for Women of the Economic Commission for Africa, with the objective of developing strategies for networking among diverse actors on three ...

The first section presents a summary of the genera! Situation of women in the three areas of focus in the sub-region using the most recent quantitative and qualitative data from these countries where available; in some ...

The main objective of the meeting was to establish a Technical Preparatory Committee and to develop strategies to facilitate the organisation of the Conference. The organizations present were invited on the basis of their ...

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 ...