Prologue - Women and the League of Nations = 1
Women at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference = 2
People's Organizations and Inter-Governmental Cooperation = 3
Latin American Women as Forerunners = 5
Pacifist and Feminist Aims = 6
The Founding Mothers of the United Nations = 9
Dispute Over the Basic Concepts = 10
New Dimensions for the United Nations = 12
Mission and Mandate of the Commission on the Status of Women = 14
Human Rights or "Rights of Man"�? = 17
Human Rights are Women's Rights = 19
The Legal Status of Women in the World = 19
The Right to Family Planning - A New Human Right = 20
Convention on the Rights of Women = 24
The Missing Link in the Chain = 27
The United Nations Decade for Women (1976-1985) : A Decade of Development = 29
New Trends with New States in the UN = 29
1975 International Women's Year as an Engine for Change = 30
The UN World Conferences on Women in 1975, 1980 and 1985 = 34
INSTRAW and UNIFEM Emerge out of the Mexico Conference = 37
Women's World Conferences = 40
The United Nations Decade for Women Changed the World = 43
All Issues are Women's Issues = 47
Women for a Healthy Planet = 47
An Infallible Strategy = 49
Diving into the Mainstream of World Conferences = 52
The Beijing Conference - A Grand Consolidation = 57
The Greatest Success of All Time! = 58
PFA - An Agenda for Women's Empowerment = 60
The Breakthrough of the Gender Concept = 63
Reorganization and Reorientation of Women's Worlds = 68
Five Years Later - Progress and Drawbacks = 75
Review and Appraisal as a Regular Practice = 75
Progress and Drawbacks = 76
Alternative Reports from People and NGOs = 78
Internet as a Channel for Women's Voices = 79
UNGASS - Hard Work and Meagre Results = 81
Achievements, Obstacles and Further Actions = 83
Other Results - Mainstreaming Missing = 86
Epilogue - Will the World Change? = 91
Future World Conferences on Women - Will There Be Any? = 92
A Global Women�s Movement Created = 94
Every Government is Accountable to Women = 96
References = 99
Annexes = 107
Annex I - An Open Letter to the Women of the World = 109
Annex II - Calendar of Progress of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women = 111
Annex III - United Nations World Conferences = 115
Annex IV - Selected United Nations and International NGO Resources = 119
Women at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference = 2
People's Organizations and Inter-Governmental Cooperation = 3
Latin American Women as Forerunners = 5
Pacifist and Feminist Aims = 6
The Founding Mothers of the United Nations = 9
Dispute Over the Basic Concepts = 10
New Dimensions for the United Nations = 12
Mission and Mandate of the Commission on the Status of Women = 14
Human Rights or "Rights of Man"�? = 17
Human Rights are Women's Rights = 19
The Legal Status of Women in the World = 19
The Right to Family Planning - A New Human Right = 20
Convention on the Rights of Women = 24
The Missing Link in the Chain = 27
The United Nations Decade for Women (1976-1985) : A Decade of Development = 29
New Trends with New States in the UN = 29
1975 International Women's Year as an Engine for Change = 30
The UN World Conferences on Women in 1975, 1980 and 1985 = 34
INSTRAW and UNIFEM Emerge out of the Mexico Conference = 37
Women's World Conferences = 40
The United Nations Decade for Women Changed the World = 43
All Issues are Women's Issues = 47
Women for a Healthy Planet = 47
An Infallible Strategy = 49
Diving into the Mainstream of World Conferences = 52
The Beijing Conference - A Grand Consolidation = 57
The Greatest Success of All Time! = 58
PFA - An Agenda for Women's Empowerment = 60
The Breakthrough of the Gender Concept = 63
Reorganization and Reorientation of Women's Worlds = 68
Five Years Later - Progress and Drawbacks = 75
Review and Appraisal as a Regular Practice = 75
Progress and Drawbacks = 76
Alternative Reports from People and NGOs = 78
Internet as a Channel for Women's Voices = 79
UNGASS - Hard Work and Meagre Results = 81
Achievements, Obstacles and Further Actions = 83
Other Results - Mainstreaming Missing = 86
Epilogue - Will the World Change? = 91
Future World Conferences on Women - Will There Be Any? = 92
A Global Women�s Movement Created = 94
Every Government is Accountable to Women = 96
References = 99
Annexes = 107
Annex I - An Open Letter to the Women of the World = 109
Annex II - Calendar of Progress of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women = 111
Annex III - United Nations World Conferences = 115
Annex IV - Selected United Nations and International NGO Resources = 119