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United Nations Victories The United Nations Decade for Women began with a conference in Mexico in 1975 and ended with a conference in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. Unwaged work was on the agenda from the beginning. After much lobbying, in 1985 the UN agreed that governments should count unwaged work in the home, on the land and in the community. To press for implementation of this decision, we formed the International Women Count Network and co-ordinated TIME OFF FOR WOMEN activities on 24 October yearly. The Nairobi decisions were reviewed 10 years later, in Beijing, China in 1995. This time our delegation of women from many countries, South and North, won the decision that governments should measure and value unwaged work in national accounts. Documents: Fahnbulleh: 'An Offer We Couldn't Refuse' account of 1975 - 1985 UN
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