WLD HISTORY
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  • Genesis
  • Home
    • The story of WLD
    • About Women, Law and Development
    • About the Website
    • About the Author
  • Beginnings
    • First Initiatives
    • Central America Legal Services
    • Nairobi Forum
  • Organizing
    • Early regional linkages
    • Asia
    • Latin America
    • Africa
    • Interregional connections
    • WLD International
  • Research
    • Clarifying issues and strategies
    • Participatory Research Project
      • Intro Freedom from V
      • Intro Legal Literacy
    • Step by Step
      • Step by Step Acknowledgements
  • Advocacy
    • Agenda setting with NGOs and UN bodies
    • Claiming Our Place
    • Support of the Special Rapporteur
    • Basic Needs Basic Rights
  • Capacity Building
    • Capacity Building
    • Human Rights Training
      • Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union
      • Nigeria Human Rights Training
    • International Advocates Course
    • Russian Lawyers
  • Publications
  • Chronology
  • Reflections
  • Network Links
  • Website Map
  • Home
    • The story of WLD
    • About Women, Law and Development
    • About the Website
    • About the Author
  • Beginnings
    • First Initiatives
    • Central America Legal Services
    • Nairobi Forum
  • Organizing
    • Early regional linkages
    • Asia
    • Latin America
    • Africa
    • Interregional connections
    • WLD International
  • Research
    • Clarifying issues and strategies
    • Participatory Research Project
      • Intro Freedom from V
      • Intro Legal Literacy
    • Step by Step
      • Step by Step Acknowledgements
  • Advocacy
    • Agenda setting with NGOs and UN bodies
    • Claiming Our Place
    • Support of the Special Rapporteur
    • Basic Needs Basic Rights
  • Capacity Building
    • Capacity Building
    • Human Rights Training
      • Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union
      • Nigeria Human Rights Training
    • International Advocates Course
    • Russian Lawyers
  • Publications
  • Chronology
  • Reflections
  • Network Links
  • Website Map
© Margaret Schuler
WLD HISTORY

Welcome to the WLD-history Website

2/15/2018

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​For a long time, I had been encouraged by women in the network to write up the story of WLD so that current members of the WLD networks in Asia, Africa and Latin America could know more about Women, Law and Development as a global development.
I chose to present the story first in the form of a website. A book version will appear later this year. The website tells the story in words, photographs and documents. It begins prior to the Nairobi conference in 1985 with a project on women and law in Central America in 1979. Out of that experience came ideas that served as an organizing framework for the 1985 Nairobi Third World Forum on Women, Law and Development. The analysis and recommendations formulated at the WLD Nairobi Forum were truly visionary and led to organizing the regional networks, and finally Women, Law and Development International.  
I consider this website something of a work in progress and welcome comments, suggestions--or corrections, if I got something wrong. 
I invite anyone who might be able to add to this history with their own photos or stories to share them with us. And I also ask for assistance in identifying missing names of people in the photos.
​I hope you will enjoy reading this story. Please add comments below or write me at margschu2@gmail.com or wldhistory@gmail.com.
​Marg Schuler
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Women, Law & Development 
Its history and contributions to the global women's rights movement. 
by Margaret Schuler 

Women, Law and Development

In these pages, Margaret Schuler, the initiator and director of WLD for many years, shares the story of its development and the contributions it has made to the international movement.