NEW YORK, September 20, 2018—The NYU School of Professional Studies (NYUSPS) Center for Global Affairs (CGA) and Oxfam’s journal, Gender and Development, will co-sponsor a public event, “Beijing, 25 Years On: Unfinished and New Business,” on Monday, September 24.
The event will focus on developments since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. When it was initially proposed, the Platform for Action was widely praised by feminists for the progressive global agreements embedded in its 12 action areas. Due to the tremendous number of socioeconomic and political changes that have occurred over the last quarter of a century, the Platform merits further development and revision. It did not, for instance, consider globalized capitalism or address structural changes in the economic domain that would serve to reduce gender, race, and other inequalities. It pre-dated social media, online violence, and the #MeToo process. Forged at the height of the optimistic post-Cold War moment, it did not anticipate the democratic reversals of recent years, which have included attacks on women’s rights by religious extremists as well as nationalist populist governments. While the United Nations more recently drafted 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have served to protect and promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, there is still much to be done.
This panel discussion also celebrates the 25th anniversary of Oxfam’s journal, Gender and Development, which has followed normative and operational advances on women’s empowerment in developing countries since before the Beijing Conference. It will begin a process of reflection in advance of the Beijing anniversary that will identify some of the unfinished and new business regarding the global women’s rights agenda.
NYUSPS Center for Global Affairs Clinical Professor Anne Marie Goetz will moderate the discussion.
Panelists
- Noeleen Heyzer, Social Scientist and Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General
- Jessica Peñaranda, Director of Movement Building, The Sex Workers Project
- Shahrashoub Razavi, Chief, Research & Data, UN Women
- Joanne Sandler, Senior Associate, Gender at Work; former Deputy Director, UNIFEM
- Caroline Sweetman, Editor, Gender and Development, Oxfam
The free event will take place on Monday, September 24, from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m., at the Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay Street, 4th Floor.
To register for the event, please click here. If you are a member of the press who wishes to cover the event, please contact Alka Gupta at aag13@nyu.edu.
For more information about CGA’s Public Events Series, visit sps.nyu.edu/cga.events, call 212-992-8380, or email sps.global.affairs@nyu.edu.
About the NYUSPS Center for Global Affairs
The NYU School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs facilitates change by educating and inspiring our community members to become global citizens who are capable of identifying and implementing solutions to pressing global challenges. We believe that the development of solutions to global problems must be informed by an understanding that the world’s challenges are not merely challenges for and among states and traditional diplomatic outlets, but also challenges for nonstate actors, urban and rural communities, and regional organizations. Through rigorous graduate and professional education programs and public events, we prepare global citizens who are at home in all of these environments—and thus, who are effective agents of change.
For more information, visit sps.nyu.edu/cga.
About the NYU School of Professional Studies
Established in 1934, the NYU School of Professional Studies (sps.nyu.edu) is one of NYU’s several degree-granting schools and colleges, each with a unique academic profile. The reputation of the School of Professional Studies arises from its place as the NYU home for study and applied research related to key knowledge-based industries where the New York region leads globally. This is manifest in the School’s diverse graduate, undergraduate, and Professional Pathways programs in fields such as Accounting, Finance, and Law; Applied Health; Arts, Design, and Film; Creative Cities and Economic Development; English-Language Learning; Entrepreneurship; Fundraising and Grantmaking; Global Affairs; Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management; Human Resource Management and Development; Languages and Humanities; Management and Systems; Marketing; Project Management; Public Relations and Corporate Communication; Publishing; Real Estate, Real Estate Development, and Construction Management; Sports Management, Media, and Business; Translation; and Writing.
More than 100 distinguished full-time faculty members collaborate with an exceptional cadre of practitioner/adjunct faculty members and lecturers to create a vibrant professional and academic environment that educates over 5,000 degree-seeking students from around the globe each year. In addition, the School fulfills the recurrent professional education needs of local, national, and international economies, as evidenced by nearly 26,000 Professional Pathways enrollments in Career Advancement Courses, Certificates, and Diploma Programs. The School’s community is enriched by more than 31,000 degree-holding alumni worldwide, many of whom serve as mentors, guest speakers, and advisory board members. For more information about the NYU School of Professional Studies, visit sps.nyu.edu.