Beschreven wordt hoe de Europese Unie ertoe kwam om seksuele rechten van vrouwen te bepleiten in Beijing (1995) en wat ze er in de afgelopen tien jaar zelf mee gedaan heeft?
In 1985 the Japanese government gave formal consent to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. In this special issue an examination of the 'joint-gender participation' policies and clarification of the problems. With the following articles: 'Participation overtaken by 'Procurement' in this past 5 years' by Mieko Takenobu : 'Joint-Gender Participation,Gender Equality, and Domestic Violence' by Yukiko Tsunoda : 'Recitation Play Sunflower - Overcoming Domestic Violence' by Reiko Aoki : 'Ten Years after the Cairo Conference' by Yuriko Ashino : 'Malpractice at the Fujimi Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology' by Atsuko Konishi : 'Gender Gap in the Workplace' by Kazuko Sakai : 'The Second Lawsuit against Showa Shell Sekiyu on Discrimination against Women' by Yasuko Yunoki : 'Globalization among Grassroots Networking' by Kuniko Funabashi : 'The Constitutional Crisis of Women's Rights' by Hisako Motoyama : 'Japan after the US Marine Corps Helicopter Crash' by Shigeko Urasaki : 'People's Resistance in Henoko, Okinawa' by Etsuko Urashima : 'Against the Sexually Discriminatory Distribution of US Military Base Compensation Money' by Michiko Nakama : 'Women's Museum of War and Peace' by Makiko Matsumoto : and 'Political Intervention in the Media' by VAWW-NETJapan.