In honor of the 20th anniversary of the now-classic gender-equality document, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action [pdf], and of the current meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women has released a summary review [pdf] of the status of women since Beijing hosted the Fourth World Conference on Women. […]
Author: Madeline Smola
Madeline Smola is a writer, award-winning abuse-prevention advocate, playwright, a Heroine of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women and a child-abuse survivor. She is working on a memoir about her experiences as a daughter struggling to understand painful dysfunction and overcome fear.