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Resolution 1325 connects women’s protection to participation in negotiation and reconstruction, while representation still requires scrutiny of resources and power.
United Nations Security CouncilThe ILO’s 2000 convention links leave with income, health, return to work and nursing time, while asking how funding can avoid making maternity an individual hiring cost.
International Labour Organization / 3 minsRecommendation No. 24 connects health access to consent, confidentiality, transport, cost and state duties, without reducing women’s health to pregnancy and childbirth.
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / 3 minsIndia’s Supreme Court connected sexual harassment with equality, dignity and work, imposing preventive duties and complaints mechanisms before dedicated legislation.
Supreme Court of India / 3 minsConvention No. 177 recognizes paid production or services performed away from an employer’s premises, addressing organization, safety, remuneration and intermediary responsibility.
International Labour Organization / 3 minsThe 1995 declaration joins collective self-determination and land rights with bodily autonomy, freedom from violence and women’s political participation.
Indigenous women at the Huairou NGO ForumHillary Rodham Clinton’s 1995 Beijing speech links violence, reproductive decisions and political participation, while raising questions about representation.
Hillary Rodham ClintonThe 1994 inter-American convention connects public, private and state violence against women to prevention, remedies and due diligence.
Organization of American States (OAS)The Women’s National Coalition’s 1994 charter links family, work, culture and state power, asking why identical treatment does not always deliver substantive equality.
Women’s National Coalition / 3 minsThe Zapatista law joins women’s public authority to bodily and household autonomy, making internal gender relations part of the revolutionary struggle itself.
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) / 7 minsLélia Gonzalez examines the abolition centenary, racism by omission and being spoken for to challenge the construction of a common female experience.
Lélia GonzalezThe collective letter connects women's political voice to family authority, labor, care and bodily autonomy, demanding democracy in the institutions of everyday life.
Conselho Nacional dos Direitos da Mulher (CNDM)