Contributions

Contributions to the project include:

· Gender and Rights in International Perspective, Maxine Molyneux

· Women in Contemporary Democratization,
Geneva 2000 Occasional Paper 4, UNRISD, Geneva, February 2000, Shahra Razavi

· Engendering the New Social Citizenship in Chile: NGOs and Social Provisioning under Neo-liberalism, Veronica Schild

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

· Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Charting the Course of Transnational Women’s NGOs, Geneva 2000 Occasional Paper 8, UNRISD, Geneva, June 2000, Rosalind P. Petchesky

· Gender of Democracy: Feminism and the Civil Society Movement in Contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi and Parvin Paidar

· A Comparative Paper on the Politics of Women’s Representation in Uganda and South Africa, Shireen Hassim and Anne Marie Goetz

· National Law and Indigenous Customary Law: Confronting Sexual and Domestic Violence in Chiapas, Mexico, A Hernez Castillo

· Conflicting Visions of Community and Citizenship: Women’s Rights and Cultural Diversity in Uganda, Aili Mari Tripp

· Rights and Capabilities: Convergence and Divergence, Martha Nussbaum

· Multiculturalism, Universalism and the Claims of Equality, Anne Phillips

· Truncated Democracy and the Women’s Movement in Peru, Cecilia Blondet

· Re-imagining Women’s Citizenship, Rights and Justice in Southeast Asia, Maila Stivens

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UNRISD thanks the governments of Denmark, Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom for their core funding. For its support of this workshop and the Institute’s research on gender, democracy and rights, UNRISD is grateful to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

This Conference News was written by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi, with the assistance of Caroline Danloy.