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United Nations Headquarters Launch - UNRISD Report on Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World

Date: 8 Mar 2005
Location: Conference room 1, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
Speakers: Urvashi Butalia, Anne Marie Goetz, Shireen Hassim, Naila Kabeer, Thandika Mkandawire, Shahra Razavi, Ann Zammit
Project Title: Policy Report on Gender and Development: 10 Years after Beijing

Tuesday 8 March 2005

PROVISIONAL AGENDA - 1.15pm-2.45pm

Chairperson: José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General, DESA, UN (TBC)

Opening: Thandika Mkandawire, Director, UNRISD

Presentations:

Section 1: Macroeconomics, Well-being, and Gender Equality
Ann Zammit, Independent Consultant

Section 2: Women, Work and Social Policy
Shahra Razavi, Research Co-ordinator, UNRISD

Section 3: Women in Politics and Public Life
Anne Marie Goetz, Institute of Development Studies

Section 4: Gender, Armed conflict and the Search for Peace
Urvashi Butalia, Aman Trust

Discussants:

Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies, UK

Shireen Hassim, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa