Subject(s): Feminism -- Women's rights -- Global women's movement- definitions and local origins -- Global context for an emerging movement- UN development decades : International debates on socio- economic development -- Decade for women - UN conferences 1975-85 : Context of international women's year -- macro economic policy framework of structural adjustment program, SAPs and women's movement -- Feminist leadership making difference on world stage : Economic justice- UN conference on environment and development UNCED, gender justice, political justice -- Political strategies and dynamics of women's organizing and feminist activism : -- New context- challenges and dilemmas for the future, leadership for moving forward -- women empowerment