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Short Summary |
This comprehensive report serves as a tool for
identifying unfulfilled promises and for revisiting current strategies
and programmes of action for protecting the human security of the
140 million Arab women. It opens with a brief overview of the overarching
theme of human security, focusing on what this concept means and how
such a focus relates to the history of women's movements within the
region. Three levels of action in the region are investigated: the
policy level where international commitments are being made; the operational
plans and actions at the national level; and the achievements and
challenges in terms of the everyday lives of women. The report also
reflects the varied experience of Arab women in the context of social,
economic and political security. This is a region that continues to
face traumas and insecurities including radical social transformations,
demographic transitions, economic waves of affluence, poverty, and
stagnation, and acute resource shortages as well as occupation, war
and civil strife and dissension. Moreover, it monitors the implementation
of commitments made in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and
the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW). Following the framework of UNIFEM's "Progress of the
World's Women", the report includes extensive boxes, tables and annexes
featuring key statistics, and facts and figures on Arab women.
Also available in Arabic:
http://www.arabwomenconnect.org/hdocs/mainform.asp?p=lib/LibList&lang=ar&scat=59
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http://www.arabwomenconnect.org/hdocs/mainform.asp?p=lib/LibList&lang=&scat=59
