- Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
- Title:
- Open letter to the U.N. and NGO Forum of the Fourth World Conference on Women: ""No Disability Access --We Want Our Money Back,"" September 11, 1995
- Creator:
- Boothe, Nancy N.
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1995-09-11
- Subject:
- Non-governmental organizations
Women--Congresses
Women's rights
Women's health services
Feminism
United Nations
Feminist Women’s Health Center
NGO Forum on Women, Beijing '95 (1995 : Huairou Xian, China)
World Conference on Women - People:
- Boothe, Nancy N.
- Location:
- China, Beijing, 39.906217, 116.3912757
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Born in Battles Wharf, Alabama (1948), Nancy N. Boothe graduated from the University of South Alabama as a registered nurse (1971). She received a B.S. in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia (1976), and a master's degree in Counseling from Troy State University [Florida Region] (1981). Boothe served in the U.S. Nurse Corps in the U.S. and Korea (1970-1984), and worked as clinical director and consultant at a number of health facilities in Louisiana and Florida. She became Executive Director of the Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center in 1994. In 1995, she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where she taught the workshop, ""GYN Self-Help."" Boothe has served on the boards of All Women's Health Services in Portland and Eugene, Oregon; the Sexual Assault Center, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Jeanette Rankin Foundation, Athens, Georgia. She is also a member of the Feminist Majority Foundation's ""Women's Commission for Congressional Oversight"" and A.P.D. Citizen Review Panel.; Founded in California in 1971 by Carol Downer (1933-) and Lorraine Rothman (1932-2007), the Feminist Women's Health Center was established to empower women through self-knowledge, education and self-help groups. The Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center was established in 1977. Its mission is to ""provide accessible, comprehensive gynecological healthcare to all who need it without judgment. As innovative healthcare leaders, [they] work collaboratively within [their] community and nationally to promote reproductive health, rights and justice. [They] advocate for wellness, uncensored health information and fair public policies by educating the larger community and empowering [their] clients to make their own decisions.""; The United Nations convened the Fourth World Conference on Women, September 4-15, 1995, in Beijing, China, with a Platform for Action that aimed at achieving greater equality and opportunity for women. Three previous World Conferences were held in Mexico City (International Women's Year, 1975), Copenhagen (1980) and Nairobi (1985). 189 governments and more than 5,000 representatives from 2,100 non-governmental organizations participated in the Beijing Conference. The principal themes were the advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence against women and other areas of concern. The resulting documents of the Conference are The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women manifested a global women's movement for change and has been called ""the Woodstock of the women's movement.""; The World Conference on Women was also accompanied by an informal meeting (August 30-September 8) of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This NGO Forum on Women, Beijing '95, brought together thousands of women from around the world to exchange information and ideas, celebrate women's achievements and contributions and draw attention and develop solutions to discrimination facing women world-wide.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arwg/id/19912
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/arwg:19912/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: W079_02_18, Nancy N. Boothe papers, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Original Collection:
- Nancy N. Boothe papers
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SERIES I: Documents and Reference Materials, 1966-2009
Archives for Research on Women and Gender - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
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