The value of history to project the future

Dr. Brenda Gael McSweeney, Network Director of  UNESCO/UNITWIN has confirmed the launch of the “Women & UN Origins” series.  The Buenos Aires-based Global Network of UNESCO Chairs on Gender led by Gloria Bonder, has joined in shaping and publishing the series.

“THEY CAN MOVE US BUT THEY CAN’T STOP US: Surviving the Early Years of ‘Women and Development’ in the United Nations,” is the first article in the series written by Dr. Margaret (Peg) Snyder, long affiliated with the BU-based UNESCO/UNITWIN Network, and Founding Director of UNIFEM (1978-89) as well as a co-founder of the African Centre for Women in 1971. 

We want, as Dr. Bonder says “… particularly to encourage young researchers and activists to know and value what has been done and achieved.” The UNESCO/UNITWIN Network and the Global Network of UNESCO Chairs on Gender both wish to highlight the importance of sharing direct accounts on the creation of key international institutions and pathbreaking initiatives, for today’s social justice activists, academics and students, and policymakers.

To read the article, follow this link.

Photo: Marilyn Carr, Peg Snyder, Pamela M’Boya, Brenda Gael McSweeney. ATRCW/ECA, Addis (Circa 1975). Collection of Marilyn Carr. 


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