Der Band enthält ausgewählte Beiträge, die anlässlich zweier Preisverleihungen ("Developing Country Prize 2000" und "Law and Development") und eines interdisziplinären Symposiums entstanden sind. Neben den Arbeiten der Preisträgerinnen werden Ansätze und Erfahrungen der politischen Stiftungen und Berichte aus der entwicklungspolitischen Praxis deutscher Organisationen (GTZ, KfW, DWHH) vorgestellt. Aus dem Inhalt: 1. Women in the context of international development and cooperation: Main award: Emma Zapata Martelo: Organized women: Their voices and spaces (9-32); Other awarded research projects: Ulrike Rötten: Impact of labour-intensive public works on nutrition security (33-41); Katinka Weinberger: Women's participation: Is it the same thing under a different setting? (43-63); Judith Bernhard: Meat and fish consumption in Burkina Faso with special regard to gender (65-75). 2. The role of women in development politics: Views and experiences of political foundations; 3. Women's projects in development co-operation; 4. Human rights and development: Michaela Wittinger: Women and human rights in developing countries: The rights of women in the African Charter on Human and People's Rights and in the American Convention on Human Rights (129-146); Christiane Simmler: The uti possidetis principle - on boundary definition between newly independent states (147-156).