The Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995, provided an opportunity for the world … women. UNRISD's work in preparation for the Fourth World Conference on Women focused on two of the themes highlighted by the … providing an account of efforts to mainstream gender in the UNDP, the World Bank and the ILO. It identifies some of the …

The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (the “Beijing Conference”) was a landmark in policy terms, setting a global …: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World, reflects on the ambivalent record of progress achieved by women over the last decades …

. Insecurity is also etched into the growth of informal economies across the world. Yet the economic policy agenda that has been so … adverse to many people around the world has also provided new opportunities to some social groups, including some low …