Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women

Governmental Politics and NGO Participation

Par (auteur) Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon
Catégories: Politique et gouvernement, Sciences humaines et sociales
Éditeur: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774808439, 264 pages, Janvier 2002

Table des matières

Acronyms

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Road to Beijing

3. Governmental Politics

4. Nongovernmental Organizations

5. Canadian Delegation

6. Canadian NGOs at the International

7. Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

8. Building on the Past, Looking to the Future

Appendices

i. Membership on the Canadian Beijing Facilitating Committee

ii. Membership on the Canadian Preparatory Committee

iii. Areas of Responsibility for Individual Members of
Canada’s Negotiating Team at the Fourth World Conference on
Women

iv. Canadian NGOs Accredited to the Fourth World Conference on
Women

v. Those Receiving Government Funding to Attend the 1995 New York
Preparatory Meetings

vi. Those Receiving Government Funding to Attend the NGO Forum on
Women ’95

List of Interviewees

Notes

Bibliography

Index

An examination of how Canada’s policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated.

La description

This book examines the process by which Canada’s policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated: a process that involved federal government officials from some twenty departments, provincial representatives, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from across Canada.