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Gender justice, development and rights
Molyneux, Maxine Razavi, Shahra
Molyneux, Maxine
Razavi, Shahra
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"In January 2000 UNRISD initiated a research project, Gender Justice, Development and Rights, to examine the ways in which liberal rights, and ideas of democracy and justice, have been absorbed into the agendas of women s movements and states in different regions. Twelve theoretical and empirical studies were carried out under the project.1 They look at three discrete but interrelated aspects of liberal rights agendas: (i) social sector restructuring and social rights in the era of neoliberal economic policy making; (ii) democratization and the politics of gender; and (iii) universalism and multiculturalism in practice.2 The 1990s, a landmark in the international human rights movement, saw positive changes in women s rights and in human rights more broadly. The collapse of authoritarian regimes in many parts of the world gave issues of rights and democracy a major impulse. The decade saw growth in the size and influence of an international women s movement, linked through regional and international networks and able to collaborate on issues of policy and agenda setting. At the same time, the transitions from authoritarian rule in many regions presented women s movements with an opportunity to press for political and legal reform at the national level. In much of the world, however, these advances in political and legal rights were not matched by significant progress in achieving greater social justice. Rising income inequality and widespread poverty in many countries have been accompanied by record levels of crime and violence. States are abdicating numerous responsibilities in the domains of economic and social policy, just at the moment when they are most needed to play a co-ordinating function between public and private provision. Where not starkly inadequate, welfare delivery under the new schemes has been patchy. The mixed record of the 1990s lies at the heart of the international policy agenda an agenda founded on two central elements: the consolidation of a market-led development model, and a greater emphasis on democracy and rights. The extent to which these two elements can be reconciled, or conflict, has been the subject of much scholarly and political debate."(pg iii)
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2003-01
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