Author: Bridget Burns

Bridget Burns is the director of the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), one of the co-leads for the Generation Equality Feminist Action for Climate Justice Action Coalition. To follow WEDO’s work, check out their website, and to follow the work of the Action Coalitions, follow UN Women’s Action Coalition page.
Revisiting Bella Abzug's Vision Post-Beijing, 25 Years Later

Revisiting Bella Abzug’s Vision Post-Beijing, 25 Years Later

On September 12, 1995, Bella Abzug took to the podium at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China to ask: “What will we accomplish at the week’s end when the [Beijing] Platform for Action is adopted by the world’s women and its 189 governments?”

Since then, feminists have not stopped advocating for gender justice, and in facing current realities, have turned toward each other to build power, speak truth, and renew commitments to the promise of Beijing—to the promise of a just and healthy world.