(A) Women, globalization and economic crisis

• Globalisation heightening gender inequalities (M.Sandrasagra)
• Women's Perspectives (Peggy Antrobus/DAWN)
• Double whammy for women (Boonthan Sakanond)
• Asia-Pacific women grapple with financial crisis and globalization (V.T. Corpuz)
• Women: Last in, first out (Prangtip Daorueng and Kafil Yamin)
• The globalization of mining and its impact and challenges for women (V.T. Corpuz)
• Impact of new world trade regime on peasant women in the Philippines(Teresita Oliveros)
• Globalization the cause of poor women's woes, says panel  (Dzodzi Tsikata)

(B) Women, poverty and economic issues

• Women demand role in FTAA debate (M.Valente) 5 Apr 2001
• Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa(GERA): Call for Proposals
• Asia: Women do not benefit fairly from economic growth
• Microcredit reaches more poor women (Farhan Haq)
• Sri Lanka: Asian rural women deprived of transport (Feizal Samath)
• Africa: Urged to invest in education of girls to reduce poverty (Moyiga Nduru)
• Promoting sustainable human development rights for women in Africa (Yassine Fall )
• Asian female migrant workers require protection, says ILO (C. Raghavan/SUNS)
• Women as consumers and producers in the world market (Evelyn Hong/TWN)
• Effects of structural adjustment on women and the poor (Dzodzi Tsikata)

(B1) Women and global institutions (WTO, World Bank etc)

• Gender discrimination not good for growth (G.Mutume) 7 Mac 2001
• Women's Caucus Declaration
• ILO: Migration of women is a survival strategy ( Zoraida Portillo)
• Seeking a fair deal to working women for maternity (Someshwar Singh/SUNS)
• Women's groups express "outrage" at WTO outcome
• The World Bank derogates women's rights (Michel Chossudovsky)
• The effects of WTO on women's rights (Vandana Shiva)

(C) Women and health

• 2,000 women protest against GM food, blockade supermarket in Brazil

(D) Women and environment

(E) Gender, violence and sexual exploitation

• Europe pledges harsher penalties for 'sex slave' traffickers (B.Kennety) 8 Mac 2001
• Poor protection for victims of sex trade (L.Delong)
• Modern slavery - forcing millions of women into sex trade
• Sexual exploitation in Cambodia (Dr Wendy Freed)
• Twilight zone for women red-light workers along Indian highways (M.Menon)
• Gender violence in Guatemala (Victoria Rich)
• The plight of Sri Lankan women (Kalinga Seneviratne)
• Surgical strike: Peru's sterilisation campaign and the US' hidden agenda (Elizabeth Liagin)

(F) Women's rights and gender equity

• Latin America: Women immigrants, the target of xenophobia (M.Valente) 23 Jul 2001
• Japan: Steps in gender equality come too slowly for women (S.Kakuchi) 4 July 2001
• EU action plan brings gender to the fore (G.Hopkins) 24 June 2001
• Latin America: Scant progress in status of women, says UNIFEM (G.Gonzalez) 10 Apr 2001
• Women demand political will in disarmament negotiations (G.Capdevila) 8 Mac 2001
• The truth behind Sri Lanka's gender development statistics (N.de Soysa)
• The long march towards gender equity in SADC (D.Mavunduse)
• Only 8 states close gender gap, says UNIFEM (T.Deen)
• US: Falls short of UN goals on gender parity (T.Deen)
• Sita and her daughters: Women workers at an Indian export-processing zone (T K Rajalakshmi/PANOS)
• Seeking a fair deal to working women for maternity (Someshwar Singh/SUNS)
• Pushing the Women's Agenda Forward (Padmaja Padman)
• Pushing the Women's Agenda Forward - Strategies to tackle concerns (Padmaja Padman)
• Mixed findings on progress for women (Murtaza Mandli-Yadav)
• Women in India's trafficking belt (Meena Menon)
• The women workers of Dhaka (Jeremy Seabrook)

(G) Gender, media and culture

• Does communication revolution benefit women? (C.Martin)
• Fat is (still) a feminist issue (Sarah Stephen)
• The death of Diana: Love and grief in a savage society (Jeremy Seabrook)

(H) Beijing Summit and After

• Action plan to elevate women gets mixed results (T.Deen)
• Beijing Conference: Gender justice and global apartheid (Vandana Shiva)
• Depoliticising gender in Beijing (V.T. Corpuz)
• Women's conference ends in compromise (Yvette Collymore)
• North-South differences in perceptions in Beijing
• "NO" to prejudice and to violence
• The NGO Beijing Declaration
• Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women
• After Beijing, new aid and trade conditionalities? (Martin Khor/TWN)
• Governments didn't deal with roots of poverty

(I) Women's movements and activism for women's rights

• Asia: Women far from critical mass to change political scene (J.Son) 19 June 2001
• Redefining the role of women in Indonesia (Abdul Razak Ahmad )
• The women's movement in India: Action and reflection (Urvashi Butalia)
• The contending discourses on women in Iran (Farideh Farhi)
• Women and rural finance (Jayati Ghosh)
• Women's resistance in Chiapas
• Ghezali's dangerous beat (Julie Wheelwright)
• Manzini fronts women's fight (Muharyani Othman )
• Who is Ramona? (Terry Wolfwood)