A Time for Radical Thinking: Discussing the 5th World Conference on Women

“Don’t call it a women’s conference,” Dr. Anele Heiges remembers Gertrude Mongellainsisting, in the lead up to what would come to be know as the 1st World Conference on Women. “Everyone should be in on it.” That year, 1975, was the UN International Women’s Year, and the Mexico City based conference focused on women’s contributions to development and peace and the elimination of gender discrimination.

Almost forty years later, momentum for a 5th world conference is getting stronger. In the wake of a statement from the President of the UN General Assembly and the Secretary-General of the UN jointly proposing the convening of a 5th conference in 2015, a group of non-profit leaders and interested community members met in the BCRW library to discuss what such a conference might look like, what it would mean, and how to make it meaningful to young people, many of whom were barely born at the time of the last world conference in 1995 in Beijing.
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