United Nations. Commission on the Status of Women

  • Report back from Copenhagen

    Tapes edited and selected from “Report back from Copenhagen,” an event for women to report back from the the mid-decade World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, which took place in Copenhagen in September 1980. The event was sponsored by Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE). Speakers include Walteen Grady, president of…

  • The Battle of Britain / Joan Dame Vickers (Episode 11 of 12)

    Talk on the battle for women’s rights in Great Britain with Nancy Reeves, attorney and writer-lecturer on the status of women and Dame Joan Vickers, M.P., D.B.E., and the Conservative Government’s Representative on the Status of Women Commission at the United Nations. They discuss the Manifesto of the Status of Women Committee, whether women are…