Beijing +25: A milestone for women's rights

In this podcast, Gender & Development's  Liz Cooke talks to the three co-editors of the Health issue of the journal.Topics covered are:why a gender lens is important when considering health mattershealth inequities COVID-19 and its gendered impactbuilding back better after the pandemicTaking part are: Janice Cooper, Senior Project Adviser for the Carter Center's Liberia Mental Health InitiativeRenu Khanna, a founding member and a Director at the NGO, SAHAJ-Society for Health Alternatives, IndiaSally Theobald, Professor and Chair in Social Science and International Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UKFind out more about the Gender & Development Health issuewww.genderanddevelopment.orgwww.tandfonline.com/cgde 

As the climate crisis deepens, in this podcast, Gender & Development's assistant editor Liz Cooke talks to the two co-editors of the Climate Crisis issue of the journal.The conversation takes in why the climate crisis is a gender issue, some of the ways it's affecting women in the Asia Pacific region, how a gender perspective is (or isn't) being incorporated into climate change policy, and the overlap between the climate crisis and the current COVID 19 pandemic.Taking part are: Irene Dankelman, academic, author and consultant on gender, the environment, and climate change Kavita Naidu, human rights lawyer and Climate Justice Programme Officer at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and DevelopmentFind out more about the Gender & Development Climate Crisis issue:www.genderanddevelopment.orgwww.tandfonline.com/cgde 

2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark United Nation's Fourth World Conference on Women, at which governments from around the world pledged to advance women's rights and work towards full gender equality.In this podcast,  Gender & Development's assistant editor Liz Cooke is joined by four women's rights activists who have written for the Beijing +25 issue of the journal. Together they assess the impact of the Beijing Conference for women's rights over the last 25 years, the role of the United Nations in supporting women's struggle for equality, and the likely consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for women's rights.Taking part: Anne Marie Goetz, of the Center for Global Affairs, New York UniversityUlemu Kanyongolo, Founder of the Young Feminist Network in MalawiLina Abou Habib, Senior Policy Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University in BeirutMelissa Upreti,  Senior Director of Program and Global Advocacy, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers UniversityRead the articles:Anne Marie Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?Ulemu Beijing and its Platform for Action, then and now. A view from a young feminist in Malawi Lina The journey began in 1995: how Beijing shaped 25 years of activismMelissa The Feminist and Women's Movement Action Plan (fwMAP): mobilising globally for Beijing +25To find out more about the Gender & Development journal and the Beijing +25 issue, visit the website www.genderanddevelopment.org

In this podcast Liz Cooke, assistant editor of Gender & Development, speaks to three contributors to the November 2019 issue of G&D, which focuses on the challenges of putting a feminist research agenda into practice. Our contributors talk to us about their research, undertaken in very different contexts. Michelle Lokot tells us about her research with Syrian refugees, Mirna Guha discusses researching sex work in Eastern India, and Xian Warner shares ideas on getting quantitative research on Violence against Women and Girls into the hands of policy makers.You can read their journal articles here:Michelle: The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugeesMirna: ‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern IndiaXian: Making feminism count: integrating feminist research principles in large-scale quantitative research on violence against women and girlsTo find out more about the journal, visit our website www.genderanddevelopment.org