06 OCCASIONAL PAPERS - SOCIAL WATCH BEIJING AND BEYOND Putting gender economics at the forefront 15 years after the IV World Conference on Women Natalia Cardona, Elsa Duhagon & Amir Hamed (Eds.) March 2010
Social Watch was created in 1995 during the “Social Summit” (World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen) to create a civil society instrument to make governments accountable to their solemn commitments to eradicate poverty, achieve gender equity and reduce inequalities.