Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights

by Jutta M. Joachim

Book Overview

In the mid-1990s, when the United Nations adopted positions affirming a woman's right to be free from bodily harm and to control her own reproductive health, it was both a coup for the international women's rights movement and an instructive moment for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seeking to influence UN decision making.

Prior to the UN General Assembly's 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589011759
• ISBN13: 9781589011755
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher