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World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 1999

Globalization, Gender and Work

Series: World Survey of the Role of Women in Development
( Print: November 1999 )

The world survey explores the increasing role of women in the development of society. It examines the effects of the crisis on the advancement of women and the progress of women's participation in...

The world survey explores the increasing role of women in the development of society. It examines the effects of the crisis on the advancement of women and the progress of women's participation in...


Perspectives on Africa's Development

( Print: August 2000 )

Perspectives on Africa's Development is a collection of speeches on the subject of Africa's development challenges delivered between February 1996 and February 2000. The speeches are organized in six...

Perspectives on Africa's Development is a collection of speeches on the subject of Africa's development challenges delivered between February 1996 and February 2000. The speeches are organized in six...


Challenge of Gender Equity and Human Rights on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century, The

Series: Mujer y Desarrollo
( Print: July 2000 )

This publication reviews progress and challenges in two areas of analysis: Gender Equity - the basis for a fair an equitable society, and Human Rights and Peace for Latin America and the Caribbean...

This publication reviews progress and challenges in two areas of analysis: Gender Equity - the basis for a fair an equitable society, and Human Rights and Peace for Latin America and the Caribbean...


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The State of Food and Agriculture 1983

Women in Developing Agriculture

Series: The State of Food and Agriculture
( PDF: August 1983 )

In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation, each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of...

In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation, each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of...


Promoting Women's Rights as Human Rights

Series: Studies on Women in Development
( Print: September 2000 )

Women's rights have traditionally been viewed as separate from human rights. Yet, throughout their lifetime, women are often faced with violations of their human rights. To address those issues, an...

Women's rights have traditionally been viewed as separate from human rights. Yet, throughout their lifetime, women are often faced with violations of their human rights. To address those issues, an...


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The State of World Population 2000

Lives Together, Worlds Apart - Men and Women in a Time of Change

Series: State of World Population
( Print: October 2000, PDF: October 2000 )

Despite the tremendous changes of the 20th century, discrimination and violence against women and girls remain firmly rooted in cultures around the world. This year's Report looks at the gender...

Despite the tremendous changes of the 20th century, discrimination and violence against women and girls remain firmly rooted in cultures around the world. This year's Report looks at the gender...


Women

A Selective Bibliography

( Print: April 2000 )

This publication presents a selection of literature on women that is available in the United Nations libraries at Geneva and New York. The references, covering the period from 1988 up to and including...

This publication presents a selection of literature on women that is available in the United Nations libraries at Geneva and New York. The references, covering the period from 1988 up to and including...


World's Women 1995

Trends and Statistics (Arabic language)

( Print: September 1995 )

This unique publication uses innovative techniques to highlight indicators on women's conditions world-wide, in a form that non-specialists can readily understand. It provides numbers and analyzes to...

This unique publication uses innovative techniques to highlight indicators on women's conditions world-wide, in a form that non-specialists can readily understand. It provides numbers and analyzes to...


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Human Development Report 1995

Gender and Human Development

Series: Human Development Report
( Print: August 1995, PDF: December 1995 )

The theme of the 1995 Human Development Report is gender and human development. The sixth in an annual series prepared by an independent team of eminent economists and social scientists, it analyses...

The theme of the 1995 Human Development Report is gender and human development. The sixth in an annual series prepared by an independent team of eminent economists and social scientists, it analyses...


World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 1994

Women In a Changing Global Economy

Series: World Survey of the Role of Women in Development
( Print: March 1995 )

The world survey explores the increasing role of women in the development of society. It examines the effects of the crisis on the advancement of women and the progress of women's participation in...

The world survey explores the increasing role of women in the development of society. It examines the effects of the crisis on the advancement of women and the progress of women's participation in...