John Mathiason, Deputy Director of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women from 1987-1996 has written a history of how the United Nations advanced the cause of equality between women and men from its founding through the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. The first volume covers the period from1945 to 1993, the year the Division for the Advancement of Women was moved back to New York.
Part history, part memoire, part policy analysis, The Long March to Beijing shows how the United Nations really works to achieve human rights and development.
In honor of the 50th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2006, The Long March to Beijing is available for free downloading. (5.8 MB in PDF). It is also available as a CD-ROM, in either Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF or html formats.
All CDs will be shipped by Priority Mail (including purchases outside the United States).