Women’s Mobilization for Gender-Egalitarian Policy Change in the 20 Years since Beijing

Organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, in cooperation UNRISD

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The event aims at exploring the question of how women’s organizations and feminist movements can influence governmental decision-making. What strategies have proven to be effective to ensure policy agendas and laws reflect women’s interests? What are the factors and conditions under which non-state actors can effectively trigger and influence policy change?

Speakers:

Elisa Vega Sillo, Office for Depatriarchalization of the Vice-Ministry of Decolonization, Bolivia
Nitya Rao, University of East Anglia, Great Britain
Anne-Marie Goetz, New York University, United States
Rob Jenkins, Hunter College, United States
Moderator: Valeria Esquivel, UNRISD, Switzerland

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 3:00 – 4:45 PM
Conference Room E
First Basement, United Nations General Assembly Building
UN Headquarters
1st Avenue between 42th and 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
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