African Woman and Child Feature Service

4 World Conferences on women's issues have been organized under the auspices of the United Nations. The 3rd International Women's Conference held in 1985 forms the pivot of this book. This meeting recommended practical and effective steps for global action to promote equality, development and peace for women.

It was a landmark meeting for women, the first of its kind in Africa and it led to the adoption of the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies(NFLS) for the advancement of women for the period up to the year 2000.

This book seeks to provide substantive reflection on the extent to which the goverments of Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya have delivered on the national and international commitments to East African women. It has a dual objective. First, it seeks to emphasize the continuing importance and relevance of the guiding principles and calls of action that were set forth by the NFLS and the BPFA (Beijing Platform For Action). Second, the book emphasizes the complex processes of gender equality work, showing that policy directives, laws and demands raised by women have not always been easily translatable into practice for a variety of reasons that are documented by each chapter; revealing what still needs to change to ensure gender equality.

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