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Short Summary
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| Title |
Seeking Accountability on Women’s Human Rights:
Women Debate the Millennium Development Goals |
| Author |
Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice
(WICEJ) |
| Publication
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February 2004 |
| Publisher |
New York: Women’s International Coalition for
Economic Justice (WICEJ) |
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Short Summary |
How and why should women's movements engage with
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? Can the goals be used to
hold governments and other institutions accountable? Do they address
roots and causes as well as solutions? The setting of targets and
indicators for the achievement of certain key developments by 2015
has drawn diverse, contradictory and even antagonistic responses amongst
those working in gender and women's human rights. This collection
draws together a number of voices - with different regional, institutional
or political perspectives. The contributions, which are in the form
of articles or brief opinion pieces, reflect wider debates around
the relationships between feminism, states and international instruments.
A section on transforming the MDGs describes the need to use the goals
to initiate broader policy dialogues on root causes of women's poverty
and the reform of global governance. Strategies include engendering
national reports, gender analysis as a regular, cross-cutting practice
and linking the MDGs with other international instruments such as
the Beijing Platform for Action and the Convention on the Elimination
of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.
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| Complete Document |
 http://www.wicej.addr.com/mdg/index.html#pdfs
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