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The World Conference on Women, 1985 or the Third World Conference on Women took place between 15 and 26 July 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, as the end-of-decade assessment of progress and failure in implementing the goals established by the World Plan of Action from the 1975 inaugural conference on women as modified by the World Programme of Action of the second conference.
The third world conference on women was held in Nairobi in 1985. [1] The Nairobi conference set out areas by which progress in women's equality could be measured: constitutional and legal measures; equality in social participation; equality in political participation; and decision-making.
The Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) was a revolutionary socialist organization for women of color active in the United States from 1968 to 1980. [1] It aimed at ending capitalism , racism , imperialism , and sexism and was one of the earliest groups advocating for an intersectional approach to women's oppression.
World Conference on Women may refer to: First World Conference on Women, Mexico City, 1975; Second World Conference on Women, Copenhagen, 1980; Third World Conference on Women, Nairobi, 1985; Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995
1977 Women's National Conference: Minority-Latino-Women; World Conference on Women, 1980, Copenhagen, Denmark, second in a series held by the United Nations; First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1981, Bogotá, Colombia; Second Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1983, Lima, Peru; World Conference on Women, 1985 ...
The Conference established the Third World Conference on Women for the end of the decade to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985 with a backup location in Tokyo. [53] The conference was seen by those who rejected the Programme as having been a failed process.
She also participated in numerous conferences on women including the 1980, 1985, and 1995 World Conferences on Women. She worked with Esther Jonathan Wandeka to gain governmental support for the 1985 conference held in Nairobi and was instrumental in introducing the peace torch at the 1995 Beijing conference.
FEMNET was established by Eddah Gachukia, Njoki Wainaina, and Norah Olembo in 1984 to co-ordinate African preparations for the Third World Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985. As part of their role to organize African women to attend the conference, the three women registered FEMNET and drafted its constitution.