This collection of articles is drawn from the Ninth International Forum on globalisation of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). The articles, taken from key presentations at the forum, cover a range of specific issues of worldwide concern. These include maternal mortality and the Millennium Development Goals, the international scourge of AIDS, escalating trafficking and sexual slavery, fundamentalism and its threat to women's human rights, and feminist concerns about new reproductive technologies.
The articles in this collection trace the economic and social impact of inequality in marriage on women, men, and wider society, and consider its implications for development. Topics include child marriage: the link between women's economic contribution and equality within marriage: NGO responses to domestic violence: and the need to understand particular forms of marriage as a prerequisite for appropriate development policy.