ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the UN and its early diplomatic manoeuvres set forth an agenda which enabled not only the resolution of international conflict and worked towards the crafting of human rights and international development goals for all, Northern countries continued to intellectually and physically lead much of the founding and decades which followed. It seeks to understand NAM as a space for women by recalling some of the historical Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) women's conferences and their contribution to the international agenda on women. The chapter progresses to a discussion of women's diplomatic manoeuvres within the United Nations as a whole. It concludes by sketching out some of the challenges and possible ways forward for the women's movements of the South and North, as they develop their tools and ideas for negotiating with new power clubs nationally, regionally, and internationally, and the continued generation of powerful unity-based ideas in pursuit of gender equality in every sphere.
