Seeking Accountability on Women’s Human Rights:  Women Debate the Millennium Development Goals


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Introduction — Carol Barton

Millennium Initiatives in the UN System

Acronymns used in this report

Seeking Accountability on Women’s Human Rights
Development and Women’s Human Rights — Sunila Abeyesekera
Mobilizing People to Claim Rights — Mary Robinson

Local Voices
Lessons of Civil Society Engagement — Marjorie Mbilinyi
Tools for Advancing a Feminist Agenda in Russia — Marina Malesheva

Contextualizing the MDGs
MDGs—The Most Distracting Gimmick — Peggy Antrobus
MDGs and International Law — Alison Symington
The MDGs in the Context of Gender and Trade — Mariama Williams
Focus on Jobs and Political Power! — Devaki Jain
Hidden agendas: gender and economic reforms in Africa —
Zo Randriamaro
Are the MDGs a new Conditionality? — Carol Barton
Gender Mainstreaming Trade and Development Policies —
Gigi Francisco

Local Voices
Financing the Goals from a Gender Perspective — Hellen Wangusa
Indigenous Women and Sustainable Environment — Flor Morales

Debating Strategies for Approaching the MDGs
Smart feminists finding strategic windows — Joanna Kerr
A Dialogue with Donors— Irma van Dueren, Phil Evans, Bharati Sadasivam, Aster Zaoude
A question of ownership — Suzanne Kindervatter
Skepticism and Hope — Yassine Fall

Local Voices
The case of Colombia: the MDGS and Women’s Human Development — Mariela Rivera-Santander
Exporting Poverty: US Social Policy and the MDGs — Ramona Ortega

Transforming the MDGs as a Tool for Rights, Equality, Sustainable Development and Peace
A View from Labor — Gemma Adaba
Taking a different road to the MDGs — Wendy Caird
Equity, equality, and empowerment at the core: linking the MDGs — June Zeitlin
We Could take over the MDGs — Hilkka Pietila
Health as a Human Right: Maternal Mortality and the MDGs — Lynn P. Freedman
Reinserting Sexual and Reproductive Rights — Francoise Girard
CEDAW as a framework for MDG implementation — Lee Waldorf
Racial Justice—the Forgotten Goal — Carol Barton and elmira Nazombe
Engendering the MDGs in the Andean Region — Aileen Allen and Ana Falú (Comment by Susanna Chavez)
An Agenda for Engendering: The Millenium Task Force on Education and Gender Equity — Caren Grown and Geeta Rao Gupta

Millennium Indicators

Resource List