Agenda: focus on Beijing +10

Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. Issue 64.

This journal reports on the progress in the 10 years since the Beijing Conference in 1995. It reflects on the deliberations at the Beijing+10 Review held in March 2005 in the US, picking up on many of the issues outlined as critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action.

Articles include:

• Women and the economy: how far have we come? Daniela Casale and Dorrit Posel
• Beijing +10: women and the environment – how close are we to Earth Democracy?Lliane Loots and Harald Witt
• Looking back, looking forward: analysing gender equality in South African education 10 years after Beijing Relebohile Moletsane
• Feminism and globalisation: the promise of Beijing and neoliberal capitalism in Africa Vishanthie Sewpaul
• Globalising the women’s movement agenda in South AfricaMaretha de Waal