Since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, there have been tremendous advances in the rights and well-being of women and girls. Progress has been made in the areas of health, education, political participation and income. Yet, much remains to be done to achieve equality between women and men. As envisioned in the Beijing Platform for Action, one critical piece for advancing the gender equality agenda is engaging men and boys.
This discussion paper seeks to create dialogue about moving forward with efforts that actively engage men and boys in challenging power dynamics in their own lives as well as in their communities and societies. The paper also sets forth several recommendations for action, including shifting of the normative understanding of men’s role within the broader agenda for gender equality, building and maintaining alliances between men’s work for gender equality and the women’s rights fields and other social justice movements, taking work with men from the programme and project levels into policies and institutions, and developing, implementing and monitoring policies to engage men in gender equality and building state capacity to implement them.
Direct Link to Full 60-Page Publication:
Via Eldis -- http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/?doc=73721
Извор: WUNRN – 19.01.2016
