UNRISD Seminar: How women's movements mobilize for policy change

The United Nation Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is pleased to invite you at the Seminar Claiming their rights: How women's movements mobilize for policy change, which will take place on Wednesday 21 October 2015 at 12.30-14.00, Room XXII, at the Palais des Nations.??The seminar will present the findings of the UNRISD research project When and Why do States Respond to Women’s Claims? Understanding Gender-Egalitarian Policy Change in Asia, which aims to understand the processes of claims-making and policy change with a specific focus on issues of violence against women, the labour rights of domestic workers, unpaid care work, and women’s land/property rights. The project is based on the assumption that the content of new policies and laws is negotiated among a wide range of non-state and state actors, who make efforts to legitimize their claims within a contested policy space. Through country studies across Asia and specific thematic studies, the project identified the mechanisms and the strategies used by women advocates to ensure that issues get on policy agendas.

PROGRAMME

Welcome Remarks: Valeria Esquivel, UNRISD Gender and Development Research Coordinator??.

Keynote Speaker:? Nitya Rao, UNRISD external project coordinator and Professor at the University of East Anglia??.

Discussants:? Ismat Jahan, CEDAW Committee member; Ambassador of Bangladesh to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg??; and Claire Hobden, ILO Technical Advisor on work conditions and domestic work.