findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in … women's lives, in diverse contexts, and to draw together some lessons for policy and practice. It begins with an account of … women's empowerment in development, tracing some key ideas that have shaped feminist engagement with empowerment in theory …

Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …

Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), advocating the multiple dimensions of women's rights, affects the level of women's rights in a … women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … (ii) whether the effects are most pronounced in the dimension of women's social rights, a special focus of the Convention …