ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the processes that formed women's visions and their influences on global issues, taking as a point of departure the analysis of women's participation in United Nations conferences, particularly the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. The UN Sponsored Third World Conference on Women, convened to evaluate the decade, demonstrated first of all that women had assumed their personal questions to be political. Under Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO's) coordination and with the participation of 80 women's organizations, the women's movement in ecology held the Second World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet during the NGO Forum at Beijing in 1995. The special nature of women's participation in United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) has given the women's movement a new profile. The logic of militarization and nuclearization in the name of social security has transformed all conflict situations into political wars of genocidal proportions.
