Subject(s): WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT -- WOMEN'S RIGHTS -- EMPOWERMENT -- SOCIAL POLICY -- DEVELOPMENT POLICY -- GOVERNMENT POLICY -- Empowerment and disempowerment, women and united nations- norms, reproductive health and rights and population policy, empowerment of women through international law, state ideology and women in rural China, state, development and empowerment in India, structural adjustment and empowerment of women in Niger and Senegal, structural adjustment policies in Mexico and Costa Rica -- Women and development in Caribbean, empowerment of Palestinian women in west bank and Gaza strip, assessing women and empowerment -- women & empowerment