Essential Matter

• Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World
• Women’s Influence on Public Policy and Governance, by Anne Marie Goetz
• Women, Work and Social Policy, by Shahra Razavi
• The Civic and Political Participation of Women in Central and Eastern Europe, by Amanda Sloat

• Titles, contents and ordering information for the latest UNRISD publications

• Consultation Meeting on Future UNRISD Research
• Global Civil Society Movements: Dynamics in International Campaigns and National Implementation
• Community Responses to HIV/AIDS
• UNRISD Events in 2004
• Inequality, Growth and Poverty
• New Approaches to Poverty: Measurements and Concepts
• Commercialization, Privatization and Universal Access to Water
• Macroeconomics and Social Policy
• Democratization and Social Policy

• Bulletin-board postings about the use of UNRISD research results on the Web, in the media and in training courses around the globe

• The Challenges of Equality and Difference, by Elizabeth Jelin