What keeps governments from fulfilling their promises to women?

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Length: 0:28:45
Uploaded: 25 Apr, 2015

Recording Date: 24 Apr, 2015
Recording Location: Geneva, Switzerland; Denman Island BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #01-15 Equality and Taxes by Frieda Werden and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Program Title: WINGS #01-15 Equality and Taxes
Description: Highlights from a panel called Institutional Mechanisms, held at the UN in Geneva. Speakers call for a 5th World Conference on Women, discuss how women are organizing to make up for loss of government backing, and target tax cuts and consequent social cuts as a major problem.

Host(s): Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Jean Shinoda Bolen, feminist psychiatrist, USA; Annette Lawson, Chair, UK's National Alliance of Women's Organizations; Kathleen Lahey, law professor, Queen's University, Canada. Moderator: Erika Kvapilova, UN Women representative in the country of Georgia. Narrator: Frieda Werden

Credits: Recorded, narrated and edited by Frieda Werden.

Comments: Links to documents discussed: THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND GENDER EQUALITY
http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2014/theglobaleconomiccrisisandgenderequality-en%20pdf.ashx

World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 2014: GENDER EQUALITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2014/unwomen_surveyreport_advance_16oct.pdf