Lesley Abdela Archive Channel

This section features selected articles drawn from the archives of award-winning journalist Lesley Abdela.  

Lesley Abdela was the first Political Editor of a major woman's monthly magazine in the UK.

New articles are added regularly to this section.

Latest Additions (in order of addition to web-site)

Women Lose Ground quotas are the only way to ensure an adequate number of women MP's in the UK at the moment
The Beijing Declaration Declaration made by women en-route to the 4th UN World Conference on Women (1995)
Lesley's World - December 2000 Hotel phones in Geneva, the treatment of women internationally and the launch of the Seed network.
Women In Combat Roles - challenging established perceptions  Issues relating to tradition and the difficult process of modernising cultural norms.
Lesley Abdela@Freetown Report from Sierra Leone about Remembrance Sunday, the arrival of Royal Navy re-enforcements and rare praise for John Prescott.

Previous Additions (alphabetical order)

A Liberal Lady for London Interview with Susan Kramer - mayoral candidate for London (2000).
Imaginary E-mail To Historical Women's Rights Campaigners Marks the Millennium with a round up of the first century of women's suffrage
Historical or Hysterical Kosovo - first impressions
In The Beginning... Recalling the launch of the 300 Group on its 10th anniversary in 1990.
Men With A Mission...No Women UNMIK appointed no women to the Kosovan Transitional Council and sidelined their interests.
Peacekeeping Missions Are Damaging The UN The UN will only survive if it ceases to engage in operational peace enforcement - a task for which it was never designed
Press Passes For Women Women's magazines seeking journalistic access to the Palace of Westminster.
Shevolution Experiences on a selection panel
Vote For Chaos The view that early elections will entrench democracy in Kosovo are misguided.  They are a way for the West to cut and run.
Women of Kosovo Medica Kosovo - Bosnian women are training Kosovan women to document and deal with the trauma of the conflict. 

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