Actions And Resources


Muslim Women Implement Beijing: The Sisterhood is Global Institute (SGI) published Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies in an attempt to develop culturally relevant materials to implement the Beijing and Cairo agreements. The manual features learning exercises that provide a framework for dialogue during 10 to 12 weekly workshop sessions. It is available in Bengali, Arabic, Persian, Uzbek and Malay, and provides a list of human rights organizations in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

SGI also organized a global conference of Muslim women called "Beijing and Beyond: Implementing the Platform for Action in Muslim Societies" at George Washington University in May, 1996. The conference addressed the diversity and complexity of Muslim women's lives around the world, and the ways that Western stereotyping of Islamic women, and a resurgence of fundamentalism, hinders women's participation in public life. For more information contact: The Sisterhood is Global Institute, 4343 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 201, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 USA; Tel: (301) 657-4355, Fax: (301) 657-4381.


Would You Like Copies of the Beijing and Cairo Documents?

For a copy of the Cairo Programme of Action, contact: ICPD Secretariat, 220 E. 42nd Street, 22nd floor, New York, New York 10017 USA. Tel: 212-297-5244, Fax: 212-279-5250. The Programme of Action is Available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese.

For a copy of The Beijing Platform For Action, contact: Ms. Kristen Timothy, Deputy Director, Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, United Nations, DC2-1216, New York, NY 10017 USA, Fax: (212) 963-3463.

Find Out if Your Country Has a National Action Plan: The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) is compiling a list of governments who made a commitment in Beijing to draw up a national action plan, and who have done so by December, 1996. The list will be presented at the CSW session in March. For further information contact: WEDO, 355 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017 USA. Fax: (212) 973-0335, e-mail: wedo@igc.apc.org

Stop the Sexual Exploitation of Children: Root Causes: A Gender Approach to Child Sexual Exploitation is a report on issues and concerns arising from the World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Stockholm, August 27-31, 1996). The report can be ordered from WEDO (see above).

Videos About Beijing: These are some of the VHS videos produced about the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) and NGO Forum on Women in Beijing. To order, specify what system (e.g. PAL, NTSC, SECAM):

1). Beyond Beijing: 42 mins. US$40. Features interviews and scenes from Beijing, and comes with a resource booklet. Contact: Frogleap Productions, 16 Saltoun Road, London SW2 1EP, UK.

2) To Empower Women: The Beijing Platform for Action: 28 mins., US$15. Women at the FWCW tell what they are doing to improve the situation of women in their countries. Narrated by Bella Abzug.

3) Slides of Huairou and Beijing: 8 mins., US$15. 90 slides on video cassette for use with your talk or speech. For 2) and 3), contact: Off Center Video, 1300 A Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709 USA.

4) Youth at the Forum: 30 mins., US$14.95. Through the eyes of young women and girls who participated in the NGO Forum and the FWCW. Contact: GirlNet, 1850 Union Street, Suite 1033, San Francisco, CA, USA.

5) The Peace Train to Beijing: 30 mins. US$18.50. 250 women from 42 countries travel across two continents from Helsinki to Beijing on a Peace Train sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Includes interviews and visits with women on the streets of seven cities en route.

6) Women Speak Up!: 57 mins. US$18.50. Women from around the world speak about equality, development and peace at the NGO Forum and FWCW. A sampler of music, events and scenes. For both 5) and 6), contact: WILPF, 1213 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107-1691 USA.

7) Through Women's Eyes: 31 mins. US$15. Features famous sites, the opening ceremony, demonstrations and performances, Hillary Clinton's speech, and interviews with women from around the world. Contact: Tara Educational Services, 65 Cretin Ave. North, St. Paul, MN 55104-5701 USA.

Voices of Women: Moving Forward With Wholeness and Dignity is a collection of personal essays by women who attended The Fourth U.N. World Conference on Women --- featuring First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, anti-apartheid activist Barbara Klugman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu, IWHC president Joan Dunlop and many more. For more information, contact: The Fetzer Institute, 9292 West KL Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49009-9398 USA.

Implementing ICPD and Beijing is a series of reports published by the Commonwealth Medical Association in collaboration with member associations of Advocacy and Women's Health. Titles are "Women's Health in Barbados" (a report of a workshop held in February, 1996), "Comparison of Selected Women's Health Issues in the ICPD Programme of Action & Beijing Platform for Action", and "Day of Dialogue on Women's Health" (report of an event that took place in London in 1996). For more information contact: Commonwealth Medical Association, Tavistock Square, London WCIH 9JP, UK.

Reproductive Health Matters is a semi-annual journal that offers in-depth analysis of reproductive health matters from a women-centered perspective, written by and for women's health advocates, researchers, service providers, policymakers, and those in related fields with an interest in women's health. Subscriptions are $40 per year for groups/organizations/institutions, and $50 per year for individuals. Reduced rates are available for those (mainly in Southern countries) who cannot afford the full rate. For more information or to subscribe, contact: Reproductive Health Matters, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9SG, UK.

This section was compiled from multiple sources, relying heavily on a regular e-mail bulletin written by Anne S. Walker at the International Women's Tribune Centre, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA, Tel: (212) 687-8633. Fax: (212) 661-2704, e-mail: iwtc@igc.apc.org


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