Themes from Celebrating Mountain Women

'Themes from Celebrating Mountain Women' contains extended abstracts of 39 papers given at a global gathering of mountain women that took place in Thimphu, Bhutan, from 1-4 October 2002 as part of the celebrations in the International Year of the Mountains. The 'Thimphu Declaration' - a call to action on the issues in the lives of mountain women formulated at the end of the conference - is included as an annex. The points raised by the participants are focused on the topics of gender role and relations; natural resources and environment; health and well-being, entrepreneurship; and political, legal and human rights. The publication will be of interest to all those interested in mountain development in general and women's issues in particular, across the world.