Obstacle Course

Published March 9, 2005

The lofty vision set out in the Platform for Action at the fourth conference on women in Beijing (1995) has been obscured, said Dr. Ratna Kapur at a lunchtime presentation at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. Drawing from over 20 years' experience with human rights and feminist legal studies, Dr. Kapur explained that the biggest threats to advancing women's rights, particularly in South Asia,...