Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 20:20:42 -0500 (EST) TO: Beijing Conference Action and Resource Network FROM: Judy Kramer This online update, published weekly in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, covers events, resources, and information related to follow-up to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women and the issues covered in the Platform for Action document. You are encouraged to send in information about activities in your area. ONLINE UPDATE #4 Please share this information with your networks. EVENTS *** Coach Tara VanDerveer to speak in Palo Alto "Developing Self-Confidence in our Youth" Thursday, April 17, 7:30 pm Spangenberg Auditorium, Gunn High School, 780 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto Sponsored by AAUW-Palo Alto and Palo Alto Council of PTAs Cost: FREE Tara VanDerveer, the internationally-known coach of Stanford Women's Basketball and the US Olympic Women's Basketball Team, will share her insights on building self-confidence in young adults, especially young women. Young people are especially invited to attend. RESOURCES *** Women, Ink, created in 1992 by UNIFEM (UN Development Fund for Women) is a project of the International Women's Tribune Centre in New York. One objective is the marketing and distribution of women and development resources worldwide. Its newest catalog includes nearly 200 titles in 30 categories, including resources developed around the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference. Below are a few titles available through the catalog. Contact: 212-687-8633, e-mail , web site . * "Women's Studies Quarterly: Beijing and Beyond," Spring/Summer 1996. Contains 25 essays, reports, documents and speeches around the preparation and proceedings of the UN Conference on Women and 12 National Reports on women's studies. Periodical, 420 pp., ISBN 1-55861-142-8. $22.00. * "Beyond Promises: Governments in Motion One Year After the Beijing Women's Conference," Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), 1996. Progress report one year later on roughly half of the 189 signatory nations to the Platform for Action. Paper, 87 pp., $5.00. * "Voices of Women: Forward with Dignity and Wholeness," Patricia Moore Harbour and Lynne Twist, eds, The Fetzer Institute, 1996. Anthology of essays from a diverse group of women who attended the UN Conference on Women--they share their various perspectives on what they found there and how they felt empowered. Paper, 92 pp., $16.95. * "Look at the World Through Women's Eyes," NGO Forum Publications, 1996. A collection of over 70 papers delivered in plenary sessions at the NGO Forum on Women, Huairou, 1995, by renowned women activists, scholars, and others, including Hilary Rodham Clinton and Aung San Suu Kyi. Paper, 289 pp., $8.95. * "The NGO Forum on Women '95 Final Report," NGO Forum Publications, 1996. This official report of the NGO Forum on Women gives background information and describes Forum preparation and activities. Paper, 96 pp., $5.95.