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Center for Women’s Gl•bal Leadership Body Economy Movement The Global Women’s Movement at the Beijing+15 Review A REPORT ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM OF THE CENTER FOR WOMEN’S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP 20Years Body, Economy, Movement: The Global Women’s Movement at the Beijing+15 Review A Report on the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership First Printing: August 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9711412-5-4 Center for Women’s Global Leadership Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 160 Ryders Lane New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555 USA Tel: 1-732-932-8782 Fax: 1-732-932-1180 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu Written and edited by Nathalie Margi and Mary Jane Real Production: Lucy V. Vidal and Katy Naples-Mitchell © 2010 Center for Women’s Global Leadership Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved Design by Van Gennep Design Printed by Princetonian Graphics, Inc. Sponsored by Center for Women’s Gl•bal Leadership Body Economy Movement The Global Women’s Movement at the Beijing+15 Review A REPORT ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM OF THE CENTER FOR WOMEN’S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP 20Years s t Preface..........................................................................................................................................................................1 n Background: The Global Movement for Women’s Human Rights ....................................................................3 • 2010: A Year of Anniversaries ........................................................................................................................3 e • International Organizing and Advocacy for Women’s Human Rights ............................................................4 t • 20 Years of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership ..............................................................................5 • Gendering Human Rights: The Vienna Conference on Human Rights ..........................................................5 n • A Global Agenda for Women: The Beijing World Conference on Women....................................................6 • Beijing+15 and CWGL’s 20th Anniversary Symposium ..................................................................................7 o • CWGL Activities at the 54th CSW ....................................................................................................7 • CWGL 20th Anniversary Symposium ................................................................................................7 C • Tribute to CWGL Founding Director Charlotte Bunch........................................................................8 • Structure of the Report ..................................................................................................................................8 Introduction: A Symposium for Collective Strategizing ..................................................................................10 • A Critical Juncture, Radhika Balakrishnan ..................................................................................................10 • The Feminist Roots of Hunter College, Jennifer Raab ................................................................................11 • A Decade for Women and Girls, Mary Robinson ........................................................................................11 • A Symphony of Liberations, Charlotte Bunch ..............................................................................................13 Body: Defending Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Ending Gender-Based Violence ..........................16 • Developing New National and Regional Instruments, Lesley Ann Foster ..................................................16 • Building More Inclusive Coalitions, Pinar Ilkkaracan ..................................................................................17 • Transcending Dichotomies, Ros Petchesky ..................................................................................................18 • Rewriting the Narrative of Human Rights, Jacqueline Pitanguy ................................................................20 • Furthering the Discussion ............................................................................................................................20 Economy: Strengthening Women’s Human Right to Economic Justice ........................................................23 • Practicing Intersectionality, Cathy Albisa ....................................................................................................24 • Making Economic Policy a Human Rights Issue, Diane Elson ....................................................................25 • Recognizing, Realizing and Redefining Economic Rights, Gita Sen ............................................................26 • Furthering the Discussion ............................................................................................................................27 Movement: Sustaining Global Feminist Organizing and Building Leadership ............................................29 • Fostering Diversity Within and Across Movements, Peggy Antrobus ........................................................30 • Defending Women Defending Rights, Mary Jane Real ..............................................................................31 • Putting the Soul Back Into the Movement, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi ................................................................32 • Investing in the Next Generation, Sharon Bhagwan Rolls ..........................................................................33 • Furthering the Discussion ............................................................................................................................34 Conclusion: New Visions, New Strategies ........................................................................................................36 Notes ..........................................................................................................................................................................39 Appendix ....................................................................................................................................................................40 • Symposium Program ........................................................................................................................40 • Symposium Panelists ......................................................................................................................41 Acknowledgments............................................................................................................................inside back cover Preface Radhika Balakrishnan, CWGL Executive Director The meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2010 marked two significant anniversaries for the global women’s movement: fifteen years after the Beijing World Conference on Women and twenty years since the founding of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL). In honor of both of these events, CWGL organized a 20th Anniversary Symposium entitled “Body, Economy, Movement,” which featured notable speakers from the glob- al women’s movement. The three thematic areas in the event’s title appropriately encapsulated the essence of the symposium—an event designed to honor the history and accomplishments of the movement, outline the challenges that remain and focus in on pertinent issues in the fight for women’s equality, and set a new course for future advo- cacy and action. The symposium allowed us at the Center to begin re-conceptualizing our role in the movement not only through the continuation of existing programs, but also as we pursue new directions after the transition of our Founding Director, Charlotte Bunch, who remains linked to CWGL as our senior scholar. The Center for Women’s Global Leadership has always been a lumi- nary institution for developing the capacity of activists around the world to respond to various challenges and to create new linkages and contexts for collaboration between disparate groups of change agents, seeding new dialogues and partnerships. The Center has not only engaged in international social movements, but with Charlotte’s unparalleled leadership, has also helped to create and shape the k c o l B women’s movement in partnership with a network of global grassroots m i J y b organizations and NGOs engaged in advancing gender equity. o t o h P Although this symposium was aimed to analyze the history of the This report is dedicated to Center within the women’s movement, it also provided a unique oppor- Rhonda Copelon (1944-2010), longtime CWGL colleague tunity to assess where we are headed at the Center and the best and friend. Rhonda was a means for achieving our goals. As the new executive director of the pioneering human rights attorney, professor and Center, I am thrilled to lead this organization into its next phase of passionate feminist activist women’s rights advocacy. I look forward to building on the strong foun- whose spirit will live on dation CWGL has forged in the global women’s movement. CWGL has through the countless individuals she has inspired. been a central player in this movement and in the transformative endeavor of demanding respect for the rights of all women. As one of 1 Preface CONTINUED the first organizations with a specific focus on developing multi-cultural leadership for advocacy around women’s rights globally, the Center has been a catalyst, enabler, organizer, and