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Women in Decision-making

Case-study on Costa Rica

  • Author: UN
  • Publication date: November 1991
  • Page count: 60
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 91.IV.5

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Member States of the United Nations have expressed their concern, there have been conventions, declarations and commissions set up, but information still suggests that women have virtually been excluded from the formulation of and influence on the foreign policy of their own countries. In an effort to ascertain the participation of women in decision-making in peace and disarmament, the Division on the Status of Women of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs conducted research in Latin America and Europe. Their findings are presented in the following series of individual country case studies.