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Prepared for UNIFEM in preparation for the 5 year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, (undated).
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This paper addresses the challenge of using the follow-up meetings to UN conferences to assert the need for both economic justice and gender justice in an increasingly globalized world. The authors' concerns include the proliferation of diverse forms of moral conservatism that systematically target women's self-determination. The authors discuss how this challenge manifested itself at the various UN conferences (World Conference on Human Rights, International Conference on Population and Development, Fourth World Conference on Women, etc.) and suggest lessons that women's activists should take from these conferences, specifically lessons from the Cairo +5 follow-up meetings to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).