Getting our history right: How were the equal rights of women and men included in the charter of the United Nations?

Forum for Development Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-60

  Skard, Torild ^a,b  

^a Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs   (Norway)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Charter of the United Nations; Commission on the status of women; Human rights; Inter American commission on women; Latin America; League of nations; Nongovernmental organizations; United nations; Women; Women's organisations

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED NATIONS; WOMENS STATUS;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 50149099609     PISSN: 08039410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2008.9666394     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Charter of the United Nations. 1945. Report to the President on the Results of the Sun Francisco Conference by the Chairman of the United States Delegation, the Secretary of State New York:Greenwood Press, Publishers.
2. Christensen, Martin K.I., 2008. Worldwide Guide to Women Leadership www.guide2womenleaders.com
3. Coltheart, Leoneore. 2004. Jessie Street, A revised autobiography Anandale, Australia:Federation Press.
4. CWGL (Center for Women's Global Leadership) and WEDO (Women's Environment and Development Organization). 2006. Gender Equality Architecture and UN Reforms New York:CWGL and WEDO.
5. D'Amico, Francine. 1999. ‘Women Workers in the United Nations:From Margin to Mainstream?’ Edited by:Meyer and Prügel. 19–40.
6. Galey, Margaret E., 1995a. ‘Forerunners in Women's Quest for Partnership’ Edited by:Winslow. 1–10.
7. Galey, Margaret E., 1995b. ‘Women Find a Place’ Edited by:Winslow. 11–27.
8. Gildersleeve, Virginia. 1954. Many a Good Crusade New York:TheMacmillan Co.
9. Hilderbrand, Robert C., 1990. Dumbarton Oaks, The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security Chapel Hill and London:University of North Carolina Press.
10. IPU, Interparliamentary Union. 1997. Democracy Still in the Making, A World Comparative Study Geneva:IPU.
11. Jain, Devaki. 2005. Women, Development and the UN, A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice Bloomington and Indianapolis:Indiana University Press.
12. Meyer, Mary K., 1999a. ‘Negotiating International Norms:The Inter-American Commission of Women and the Convention On Violence against Women’ Edited by:Meyer and Prügel. 58–71.
13. Meyer, Mary K., 1999b. ‘The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom:Organizing Women for Peace in the War System’ Edited by:Meyer and Prügel. 107–21.
14. Meyer, Mary K., and Prügel, Elisabeth, eds. 1999. Gender Politics in Global Governance Lanham and Oxford:Rowman and Littlefield.
15. Miller, Carol. 1992. Lobbying the League:Women's International Organizations and the League of Nations, Oxford. University of Oxford.
16. Miller, Carol. 1994. ‘“Geneva—the Key to Equality”:Inter-War Feminists and the League of Nations’. Women's History Review, 3 (No. 2):219–45.
17. OAS, Organisation of American States. 2007. About the Inter-American Commission of Women and History of CIM www.oas.org
18. Pietilä, Hilkka. 2007. The Unfinished Story of Women and the United Nations New York and Geneva:United Nations.
19. Robins, Dorothy B., 1971. Experiment in Democracy, The Story of the U.S. Citizen Organizations in Forging the Charter of the United Nations New York:Parkside Press.
20. Rosenberg, Rosalind. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve www.columbia.edu
21. Russell, Ruth B., 1958. A History of the United Nations Charter; The Role of the United States 1940–1945 Washington, DC:Brookings Institution.
22. Sekuless, Peter. 1978. Jessie Street, A Rewarding but Unrewarded Life, St. Lucia, Queensland:University of Queensland Press.
23. Skard, Åse Gruda. 1986. Fulle hender (Full Hands) Oslo:Gyldendal.
24. Stephenson, Carolyn M., 1995. ‘Women's International Nongovernmental Organizations at the United Nations’ Edited by:Winslow. 135–53.
25. Street, Jessie M.G., 1966. Truth or Repose (autobiography) Sydney:Australasian Book Society.
26. Stienstra, Deborah. 1994. Women's Movements and International Organizations New York:St. Martin's Press.
27. The United Nations Conference on International Organisation. 1946. Selected Documents Washington:United States Government Printing Office.
28. Tickner, Ann J., 1993. Gender in International Relations:Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security New York:Columbia University Press.
29. United Nations. 1945. Charter of the United Nations New York:UN.
30. United Nations. 1948. Yearbook of the United Nations, 1946–47 New York:Department of Public Information.
31. United Nations. 1996. The United Nations and the Advancement of Women 1945–1996 New York:UN.
32. United Nations. 2001. Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action with the Beijing +5 Political Declaration and Outcome Document New York:UN.
33. United Nations. 2005. 60th Anniversary of the Sun Francisco Conference www.un.org
34. United Nations. 2005–6. History of the Charter of the United Nations www.un.org
35. United Nations. 2006. Delivering as One, Report of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel New York:UN.
36. United Nations Conference on International Organisation. 1945. Documents, Vols. I and II General, Vol. III Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, Comments and Proposed Amendments, Vols. VI and VII Commission I General Provisions, Vol. X Commission II General Assembly London and New York:United Nations Information Organisation.
37. UNDAW (United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women). 2003a. Women Go Global, The United Nations and the International Women's Movement 1945–2000, CD-ROM New York:UN.
38. UNDAW. 2003b. Short History of the Commission on the Status of Women www.un.org/womenwatch/daw
39. Winslow, Anne, ed. 1995. Women, Politics, and the United Nations Westport, Ct. and London:Greenwood Press.
40. Wikipedia. 2008. Jan Smuts, The free encyclopedia, en.wikipedia.org