10:00-10:45

Opening Session

Welcome - Shahra Razavi, UNRISD, Switzerland

Keynote Address - Maxine Molyneux, University of London, United Kingdom

10:45-12:45

Session One: Basic Needs and Social Rights: the Changing Face of Social Service Provisioning

Chairperson - Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management/Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), India

· Needs Versus Rights: Beyond Dualisms Rosalind Petchesky, The City University of New York, United States

· Engendering the New Social Citizenship in Chile: NGOs and Social Provisioning under Neo-liberalism Veronica Schild, University of Western Ontario, Canada

· Female Educational Deprivation and the Right to School Education in India - V.K. Ramachandran, Indian Statistical Institute, India

HALF HOUR OF GENERAL DISCUSSION

12:45-14:00

LUNCH

14:00-15:30

Session Two: Women in Contemporary Democratization

Chairperson - Yakin Ertnited Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), New York

· Gender of Democracy: Feminism and the Civil Society Movement in Contemporary Iran - Afsaneh Najmabadi, Barnard College, United States

· Women and Electoral Politics in South Africa: 1994-1999 - Shireen Hassim, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

HALF HOUR OF GENERAL DISCUSSION

15:30-15:45

BREAK

15:45-17:15

Session Three: Multiculturalism and Universalism

Chairperson - Catherine Hall Martinez, Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, United States

· National Law and Indigenous Customary Law: Confronting Sexual and Domestic Violence in Chiapas, Mexico - A Hernez Castillo, Centro de Investigaciones Superiores en AntropologSocial (CIESAS), Mexico

· Conflicting Visions of Community and Citizenship: Women’s Rights and Cultural Diversity in Uganda - Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

HALF HOUR OF GENERAL DISCUSSION

17:15-17:30

Closing Remarks