Agenda Setting, the un, and NGOs Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights

Name: Agenda Setting, the un, and NGOs Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights
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ISBN: 9781589011755

ISBN-10: 1589011759

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Edition: 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Jutta M. Joachim

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Prior to the UN General Assembly's 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women and the 1994 decision by the UN's Conference on Population and Development to vault women's reproductive rights and health to the forefront of its global population growth management program, there was little consensus among governments as to what constituted violence against women and how much control a woman should have over reproduction. Jutta Joachim tells the story of how, in the years leading up to these decisions, women's organizations got savvy--framing the issues strategically, seizing political opportunities in the international environment, and taking advantage of…

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 7/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.726

Jutta M. Joachim is an associate professor with the Institute of Political Science at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. She is the coeditor of International Organizations and Implementation: Enforcers, Managers, Authorities.



Preface


Introduction: From the Margins to the Center-Women's Rights, NGOs, and the United Nations



NGOs and UN Agenda Setting: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Framing Strategies



Rallying for Peace and Equal Nationality Rights: Women's Organizations between 1915 and 1945



Equality, Development, and Peace: The UN Decade for Women, 1975-1985



Women's Rights as Human Rights: The Case of Violence against Women



Reproductive Rights and Health: Women's Organizations and the Population Establishment



NGOs and International Organizations



UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women


Notes


References


Index