Toward a Compassionate Society (booklet)

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Title
Toward a Compassionate Society (booklet)
Description
(Charlotte Bunch, Mahnaz Afkhami, Jacqueline Pitanguy, Elise Boulding, Mahbub ul Haq, Arati Rao, Aruna Rao, Uma Narayan, Arvind Sharma)
This article first appeared in the Fall 2002 issue of Social Research journal, and resulted from a May 12, 2002 meeting of experts on the topic of human security.

Mahnaz Afkhami (President and CEO of WLP/Iran), Kumi Naidoo (Secretary General of Amnesty International/South Africa), Jacqueline Pitanguy (Founder and Director of Cidadania, Estudo, Pesquisa, Informação e Ação (CEPIA)/Brazil), and Aruna Rao (Co-founder and Executive Director of Gender at Work/India) discuss the limitations of traditional ideas about state security, which does not generally encompass the security of individuals, and the advantages of a human security approach. Their shared security objectives include the promotion of human welfare, power-sharing, sustainable development, social justice, human rights, gender equality, and democracy. The May 12 conversation and subsequent article were a prelude to WLP’s organizing a policy action group on human security with the support of the State of the World Forum.
Subject
Women's Learning Partnership
Date
2002
Language
English
Coverage
Unknown
Type
Booklet
Format
.pdf
Creator
Mahnaz Afkhami
Contributor
Charlotte Bunch
Elise Boulding
Mahbub ul Haq
Arati Rao
Aruna Rao
Uma Narayan
Arvind Sharma
Publisher
Women's Learning Partnership
Extent
69 pages
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