Beijing+15 Blogs and Opinions


1. AWID Association of Women's Rights in Development is an international, multi-generational, feminist, creative, future-orientated membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. AWID’s mission is to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women’s rights advocates, organizations and movements internationally to effectively advance the rights of women. See here for AWID's Beijing+15 Blog and here for links to further comment and analysis.

2. Wendy Harcourt’s blog

Dr Wendy Harcourt is Senior Programme Director and Editor of Development at the Society for International Development (SID) in Rome. See www.wendyharcourt.net. She is a former Chair of WIDE and currently series editor of the ZED Books Gender and Environment series.

3. Website of the Global trade union movement at the CSW/Beijing+15 Review

4. Women In Development Europe (WIDE) is a European feminist network of women´s organisations, development NGOs, gender specialists and women´s rights activists. WIDE monitors and influences international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist perspective. The WIDE delegation blog is (here).

5. Canadian, Mary Scott of the National Council of Women of Canada has a very useful blog with links to a vast range of other sites and of documents relating to the Beijing+15 Review.