C U R R I C U L U M   V I T A E  (Updated in June 2008.)

HILKKA PIETILÄ

PERSONAL DATA

Family name: Pietilä
Given names: Hilkka Maijaliisa
Place and date of birth: Kiikka, 13th March, 1931
Address: Jussaarenkuja 5 N 134, 00840 Helsinki
Phone/Fax: 358-9-698 12 88 (home/work)
     	e-mail: hilkka.pietila@pp.inet.fi
             Home page: www.hilkkapietila.net 

TRAINING

Master of Science (Nutrition, Microbiology, Household Economics), University of
Helsinki 1956.

The United Nations Intern Programme,  21 July – 10 August 1966, Geneva.

International Peace Academy, Vienna I Project, July 19 – August 15 1970, Vienna.

Tufts University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a four week seminar 
on “Decision-Making in U.S. Foreign Policy”, September 11 – October 10, 1983

WORK EXPERIENCE

	Independent writer, researcher and activist 		                         1990 -

Lecturing on multilateral development issues and advancement of
	 women in the United Nations system in the University of Helsinki
	 and occasionally in other Universities in Finland                                      1991 - 

Finnish United Nations Association, Secretary General,	  		1963-1990

Maito ja Terveys ry (Milk and Health Ass.), Leader of activities,		1958-1963

	Suomen Sähkölaitosyhdistys ry (Association of the Electricity 
	Boards in Finland), editor of the Magazine.				1955-1958

POSITIONS IN CIVIC, PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

President of the Association of Home Economists in Finland,		1960-1962

International Dairy Federation, Working Group for International 
	Milk Day preparations,		                                                               1959-1963

Member of the National Committee for the FAO Freedom 
	from Hunger Campaign,							1961-1967

	Parliamentary candidate for elections in 1966, 1970 and 1983 in the 
	constituency of Helsinki.

	Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation 
	of United Nations Association, 			                                     1965-1968

Member of the Finnish National Commission for Unesco,			1971-1983
Vice President     					  	             1975-1983		
            Member of the Council of International Foundation 
	for Development Alternatives,	                   					1985- 1989

Member of the Finnish Committee for the Reunion of Sisters (USA-Finland)
	Conferences in Minneapolis (1986) and Kuopio (1987).

Member of the Core Group of Women for Peace in Finland since 1980.

 	Member of the International Peace Research Association; Women, Militarism and Disarmament Study Group since 1983.

	Vice President of the World Federation of the United Nations Associations, 
	WFUNA,  						             		1985-1989

Member of the Board of International Advisors of newborn Ms. Magazine since June 1990.

Person in charge of the National Focal Point of the UN International 
	Research and Training Institute for Advancement of Women in Finland, 		1990- 		
Honorary President of the Finnish United Nations Association since 1990.
	
	Honorary President of the World Federation of  the United Nations Associations,
	WFUNA, since 1992,

             President of the people's movement against the annexation of Finland to the
	European Union, Alternative to EU,                                                                       1991-1995

	Honorary Doctor Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, University of Oulu	            2002
               
	The National Annual Non-fiction Writers’ Award for lifelong work 			2003  

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

- Study tour in Tanzania in 1971 to study both multilateral and bilateral development          cooperation, provided by the Finnish Foreign Ministry;

- Study tours to India 1965 and 1973; 

- Visits in Peru 1975 and Mexico 1975 and 1977;

- Advisory member of the Finnish delegation to UN General Assembly in New York 1965,           1966, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1974 and 1975;

- Member of Finnish Delegations to 
		- the UN Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm, 1972,
		- the World Population Conference in Bucharest, 1974,
		- the Second General Conference of UNIDO in Lima, Peru, and the meeting 
		  of Industrial Development Board 1975, 
		- the World Conference of International Women's Year in Mexico City 1975, 
		- the UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development in Vienna 1979, 
		- the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 1995;

-  	-   Human Rights education seminar in Racine, USA 1978;

-  The NGO Forum at the UN Conference on International Decade for Women in                         Copenhagen, July 1980;

-   Member of Finnish Delegations to the General Conferences of UNESCO 1976-82;

	-    Finnish Delegate to the UN Committee of Information 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982;

- 	UNITAR-seminar on "Creative Women in Changing Societies" in Oslo, July 1980;

-  	European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) Conferences in Milan 1978 and Budapest 1981;

-	IPRA General Conferences in Turku 1975, Oaxtepec 1977, Györ 1983, Sussex 1986, Groningen 1990 and Tampere 2000;

-   Forum 85 and the UN World Conference on International Decade for Women in Nairobi 1985;

-	World Council of Churches, CICARWS World Consultation, November 1986, Larnaca, Cyprus;

-	World Congress of Women in Moscow 1987;

-	Society for International Development, 19th World Conference, March 1988, New Delhi;

	 	Symposium on “Women’s voice in the North-South Dialogue - Strategies for interdependence and solidarity”, Council of Europe, Barcelona, 30-32 May 1988.

-	International Meeting "Women, Peace, Ecology", Moscow, June 1-5, 1989;

-   Consulting assignment at the UN International Research and Training Institute for Advancement of Women, INSTRAW, July 1989, Santo Domingo;

-	Africa-Europe Encounter in Porto Novo, Benin, 31.8.-3.9.1989, organized by Council of Europe, OAU and the World Social Prospects Association.

-	The International Interdisciplinary Congresses on Women in Groningen 1984, Dublin 1987, New York 1990, Costa Rica 1993, Tromsö, Norway 1999, and Kampala, Uganda 2002.

-    Global Assembly on Women and the Environment, “Partners in Life”, Miami, Florida 1991.

	-    The World Women’s Congress for a Healthy Planet, Miami, Florida, 1991.

     	- 	The First International Minoan Celebration of Partnership, Heraklion Crete, Greece, October 4-11, 1992.

	- 	The World Conference on Human Rights, NGO Forum, Vienna 1993. 

            -	The seminar for Baltic Women in preparation for the IV UN World Conference on Women as initiator and leader in Kemeri-Turku 1994,

     	-	UN 50 Signing the UN Charter: Celebrations; National Convention of the UNA/USA; 35. Anniversary Plenary of the World Federation of the UN Associations, San Francisco 26-30.6.1995

-   The Head of WFUNA Delegation to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women and the NGO Forum in Beijing 1995;

-  The Annual Conferences of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Washington, DC 1996, Mexico City & Taxco 1997, Amsterdam 1998, Istanbul 2000 and Oslo 2001.  

            	-   Frö&frukter (Seeds&Fruits), Nordic Conference on Women Studies by The Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Oslo, Norway, 21-23.11.1996 

-   “Är våld manligt?” Konferens om män och våld av Svenska Arbetsmarknadsministeriet, Stockholm 15.01.1997.

	 	Women and Men in Dialogue, Baltic- Nordic Conference in Valmiera, Latvia, August 1997, leading a workshop on “Violence against Women”.

-   “Domestic Violence in Latin America and Caribbean, Costs, Programs and Policies”. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C. 20-23 October 1997. 

-   UNESCO Expert Group Meeting “Male Roles and Masculinities in the Perspective of a Culture of Peace”, Oslo 24-28 September 1997.

-   Expanding People’s Spaces in the Globalizing Economy, as the Chair of preparation Group for  IGGRI Conference in Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland, September 1998, 

-   Women’s Studies and Gender Research in the Baltic and Nordic Countries: Mapping the Situation. University of Latvia, Riga,  October 1998,

-   International Forum “Biocentric Values for the Millennium - The New Renaissance Bio-Environment - Bio-Culture”, organized by Biopolitics International Organization, St.Petersburg, October 1-5, 1999. 

	- 	Women’s Strategies & Politics in Transition Seminar, organized by School of Politics Aleksandra Kollontai and NCRB - A Network for Crisis Centres for Women in the Russian/Barents Region Project. Nevsky Institute of Language and Culture, St. Petersburg, May 2000.
	
-	NGO-participant in the United Nations General Assembly 23. Special Session on Beijing+5, New York, June 2000 

            -     As NGO-participant in the Regular Sessions of the UN Commission on Status of Women Sessions in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.             

            -     Three presentations in World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, 2004.

-    NGO participant in the 49th Special Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women on the Beijing+10, March 2005.

BOOKS

1.  Syö elääksesi (Eat to your Health), Helsinki 1963.

2.  Ihmisen puolustus (In Defence of Human Dignity), Juva 1981.

3.  What Does the United Nations Mean to Women? A booklet reviewing on how the women's issues have changed in the UN System within forty years of history UN/NGLS Geneva 1985.

4.  UNDP - YK:n kehitysyhteistyön sydän (UNDP - The Heart of the UN Development co-operation). A booklet published by the Finnish UN Association, Helsinki 1985.

5.  Vallan vaihto - (Shift of Power. A woman's reflections on politics, economics and future.) A   collection of articles in Finnish, Helsinki 1988.

5.  Making Women Matter. The Role of the United Nations. Together with Jeanne Vickers.  London 1990, second and third expanded and updated editions in 1994 and 1996. Zed Books in cooperation with the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, INSTRAW, and the UN Non-governmental Liaison Service, Geneva.

6.  United Nations and the Advancement of Women. The role of the Nordic countries to promote efforts by the UN system for advancement of women. Together with Ingrid Eide of Norway. The Nordic UN Project. Report No 16:1990. Stockholm 1991.

7.  Näkymätön näkyväksi. Naiset ja YK.(From Invisible to Visible. Women and the UN.) Ministry for Social welfare and Health. Series A: Research reports 2/1991. Helsinki 1991.

8.  Silmät auki Eurooppaan. (Looking at Europe) Information and discussion on European integration. Kääntöpiiri, Helsinki 1992. Second updated and expanded edition 1993.
	
9.  Engendering the Global Agenda: A Success Story of Women and the United Nations.    INSTRAW Occasional Paper Series No.1. Santo Domingo 1999.

10.  Naiset ja YK. Vuosikymmenien menestystarina.(Women and the United Nations. 
       A Success Story during Decades), Published by the Finnish Foreign Ministry/Edita,                   Helsinki 2001; 2. updated and revised edition 2006. http://formin.finland.fi/kehityspolitiikka/julkaisut/Naiset_YK

11.  Engendering the Global Agenda: The Story of Women and the United Nations. Development Dossier published by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service, Geneva 2002. 

13.  Mikä meitä yhdistää – ihmisyys ja perusarvot (What we have in Common – Human Dignity and Basic Values) PS-Publishing, Jyväskylä 2003.

14.  The Unfinished Story of Women and the United Nations. Development Dossier published by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service, Geneva 2007
       (Profoundly expanded, revised and updated 2. edition of the 2002 version.) 
                     http://www.un-ngls.org/pdf/UnfinishedStory.pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS (other than Finnish)

         1.	"The Right to Be Oneself".
An essay in Sisterhood is Global, The International Women's Movement Anthology. Edited by Robin Morgan. Published by Anchor Press/Doubleday, New York 1984.

         2.  "International co-operation".
Teaching for International Understanding, Peace and Human Rights. Edited by Norman J. Graves and others. UNESCO 1984.

         3.	"Thoughts on Peace Education".
The United Nations, Peace, Security, Public Opinion Attitudes. A publication of the World Federation of United Nations Associations. Geneva 1985.

         4.	"Kvinnoperspektiv på nuet och framtiden".
ALTERNATIVEN. Edited by Mats Friberg/Johan Galtung. Akademilitteratur. Göteborg 1986.

         5.	"To Develop an Alternative Peace Policy of Women".
Women, Militarism and Disarmament. Edited by Birgit Brock-Utne and others. International Peace Research Institute, Oslo 1986.

        6.	"The Creative Impact of Feminism on Biopolitics. Marriage of Ecophilosophy and Feminism". Biopolitics. The Bio-Environment. Edited by Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis. Athens 1988.

         7.	The Creative Impact of Feminism on Biopolitics. En Feministisk Utopi og veier dit. Prosjekt Alternative Framtid. Rapport fra to seminarer. Oslo, juni 1988.   

         8.	"Tomorrow Begins Today. Elements of a Feminine Alternative for the Future of Industrialized Countries". Women's World. Finnish Contributions to the Third Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Dublin 1987 (Åbo, 1989).

         9.	"The North is the South's Problem. World Economic Crisis - adjustments hits women." Women and South-North Relations. Edited by Pirkko Kiviaho and Monica Böök. Series C: Working Papers 4/1988. Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Helsinki 1988.

      10.  "The Daughters of Earth: Women's Culture as a Basis for Sustainable Development". Ethics 
	of Environment and Development. Edited by J. Ronald Engel and Joan Gibb Engel. Belhaven Press, (A division of Pinter Publishers), London 1990.

     11. 	"Daughters of Mother Earth. Women's Culture as an ethical and practical basis for sustainable development." Finnish Debates on Women's Studies. (Contributions by Finnish Scholars to the Fourth 	International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, New York 1990.) Edited by Leila Simonen. University of Tampere, 1990.

     12.	"The Environment and Sustainable Development". Kvinner, miljö og utvikling. Rapport fra en nordisk forskerkonferanse. Arbeidsnotat 3/91, Senter for kvinneforskning, Universitetet i Oslo.(1991)

      13.	"Beyond the Brundtland Report". Healing the World - and Me. Edited by Mark Macy. Knowledge Systems. Indianapolis, 1991.

      14.	"Women's culture and sustainable development". pp. 119-125. One World or Several. Edited by Ashok Bapna. SID, Rajasthan Chapter, India. Jaipur 1991.

      15.	"Ökofilosofi og feminisme - en resept for bärekraftig utvikling?" (Ecophilosophy + Feminism - a recipe for a sustainable development?) Ikke bare si det, men gjöre det! Om bärekraftig utvikling. Edited by N.C.Stenseth og K. Herzberg. Universitetsförlaget/Alternative Framtid, Oslo 1992.

      16.	"Women: The Missing Element", An article in Facing the Challenge: Responses to the Report of the South Commission. Zed Books/The South Centre, London, 1993.

      17.  "Villages in Finland Refuse to Die". REBUILDING COMMUNITIES. Experiences and Experiments in Europe. Edited by Vithal Rajan. A Resurgence Book, Green Books Ltd/WWF, UK 1993	

      18.	"Place of Women's Organizations in the World Today." Keynote Address. 80 Years and Beyond: 26th WILPF International Congress Report. Geneva 1995.

      19.  “DAWN Report of the North Overdue!”  Proceedings of the First FEMINA BOREALIS Research Conference, August 1995. Northern Gender Studies 3. Universities of Oulu and Lapland. 

      20.	“The UN System: 50 Years as a Lever for the Advancement of Women, Development and Peace.” (With Jeanne Vickers) in Ilze Koroleva: Invitation to Dialogue: Beyond Gender (In)equality. Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga 1997. 

       21. “Könsperspektivet på den globala agendan. En framgångsberättelse om kvinnor och Förenta Nationerna”, i rapport från seminariet Kvinnor, män och fredsperspektivet i Kalmar, Sverige, maj 1997 i sammanhang av Kalmarunionens 600 års jubileumsevenemang.
Red. Aino Saarinen och Carita Peltonen. FEMINA BALTICA, Baltic-Nordic Women’s Network, Åbo 2001.       

      22.	"Equality - Development - Peace. The UN System in the vanguard of advancement of women, development and peace." (Co-author with Jeanne Vickers) In Chadwick F. Alger (ed.). The Future of the United Nations System: Potential for the Twenty-first Century, United Nations University Press,  Tokyo - New York - Paris, 1998.
     	
      23.  “Violence Against Women - An Obstacle to Peace. Four Conferences - A New Vision.              Report on Four Conferences in 1997" in EuroPRO-Fem (CD-Rom). European                         Profeminist Men’s Network, City & Shelter: Brussels 1998.

     24.  “Solidarity as a guiding principle in life”.  In Outi Hakkarainen, Miia Toikka & Thomas Wallgren (edit.) Dreams of Solidarity. Finnish experiences and reflections from 60 years. LIKE, Kepa Publications No 24. Helsinki 2003. 	

     25.  “Cultivation and Households. The Basics for Nurturing Human Life”, The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. EOLSS Publishers Co. Ltd, Surrey, UK 2002.

     26.  “A Sketch for a New World Food Order. The Future of Agriculture in Global Perspective”, Turku 2003, Congress Proceedings. Web: www.njf.nu/Congress Proceedings 
 
      27. “Equality-Development-Peace. Women 60 Years with the United Nations”. The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. EOLSS Publishers Co. Ltd, Surrey, UK 2005.  

      28.  “La sociedad del bienestar en Finlandia”. Conciliación de la vida profesional y familiar. Editora: Paloma de Villota. Editorial Sintesis. Spain 2008.

MAJOR ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS
(In addition to several hundreds in Finnish)

I.  PEACE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION

1.	"Development Education vis-vis Education for International Understanding, Cooperation and Peace and Education Relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms".
Memorandum for Nordic meeting in Turku, Finland, 1975.

     	2. 	"International Education: What it is and Why it is needed." Paper in Seventh General Conference of IPRA, Oaxtepec, Mexico 1977.  Published in the Proceedings of the Conference (Tampere 1977.)

3.	"Human Rights - the Backbone of Education".
Working paper for the Symposium on International Human Rights, Racine Wisconsin, June 1978.

4.	"Human Rights - the Backbone of Education: Variations of the Theme".
International Journal of Political Education. Vol.3.No.2. June 1980.

5. 	"Public Awareness Concerning Human Rights".
A working paper for International Conference "Human Rights - a Challenge for Education". Hamburg, September 1980.

6.	"Das Menschenrechtsbewusstsein in der öffentlichkeit".
Die Menschenrechte - eine herausforderung der Erziehung. Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale  fur politische Bildung. Bonn 1981.
 
	7.	"NGOs as Partners in the Development Education".
Working paper for the UNICEF Development Education Study Group, in Moscow, September 1982.

8.	"Peace Education Does Have an Objective - Peace".
A paper for the 11th IPRA General Conference, Sussex, April 1986.
Originally prepared for Peace Education Seminar by the Finnish Central Board of Education, Heinola 1983.

9.	"Peace is the Way - A Movement for Negative or Positive Peace?" A paper for the 11th IPRA Conference, Sussex, April 1986.

	10. "What Does Peace Education Mean?"
Breakthrough. A publication of Global Education Associates. Vol.8. No 3-4. Spring/Summer 1987.

11. "Patriarchy is a State of War - the Role of Peace Movement and Peace Research in this       War?" A paper for IPRA 25th Anniversary Conference, Groningen, July 1990.

12.  “Violence is an Enemy with Many Faces – How to Defuse this Enemy?”
       A paper presented in Women, Men and Peace Perspectives in “Kalmar – Capital of the North”  23.05.1997.

13.  Violence Against Women – An Obstacle to Peace. Four Conferences  - A New Vision. Report on Four Conferences in 1997.
       CD-Rom: EuroPRO-Fem. European Profeminist Men’s Network, City & Shelter: Brussels        1998.   

14.	  “Violence against Women, Peace and the Involvement of Men.” The IASOM Newsletter.      
	   Special Issue “Men & Violence”. Vol 6, 2 June 1999.

15.  Violence Against Women – an Issue of Peace. Women Studies and Gender  Research in the Baltic and Nordic Countries : Mapping the Situation. Irina Novikova (ed.) Riga 1999.   

II.  DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

1.	"The Role of Europe in promoting World Peace and Development". 
      Working paper on behalf of the Finnish UN Association to the 
      Third Regional Conference of the European UNAs, Brussels 1972.

2.	"Economic and Social Development and Environmental Issues". A Basic Document on behalf of the Finnish UNA for the 24th Plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, 1973.

3.	"The Role of UNAs is preparing the national public to promote the aims of the second basket of the Conference of Security and Cooperation of Europe and to adapt their life to the implementation of the NIEO". Working paper presented on behalf of the UN Association of Finland to the Fifth Regional Conference of European UNAs, Helsinki January 1977.

4.	"The Interrelationship of the Second Basket of the CSCE Final Act and the Principles of the NIEO". Working paper for the VII General Conference of IPRA, December 1977, Oaxtepec, Mexico.

5.	"Basic Elements in Contemporary Development Thinking. The New Economic Order and meeting Basic Human Needs as Main Objectives of Development". A paper prepared in Autumn 1978, and distributed widely as mimeograph paper in English.

6.	"Hunger, Trade and Agricultural Policy". Basic article published in Finnish in a book "Maailman maatalouden ongelmia" (The Problems of the World Agriculture), Helsinki 1979, and distributed widely as mimeograph paper.		

	7.	 “New Way of Life - For Whom and Why?". A paper presented in the Nordic Summer Seminar of Future Researchers, Helsinki, July 1984.

8.	"Global Situation - Human Situation - What's to Be Done?". A presentation in the World   Council of Churches World Consultation, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 1986.

9.	"The North is the South's Problem. Are the Western Thinking, Patterns and Policies a   Trap for the Developing Countries?" Peaceletter 2/88. Peace Education Institute,   Helsinki.

10. "The North is the South's Problem".
  A paper presented in the Nordic Women's Forum, Oslo, August 1988.

11. "The Environment and Sustainable Development." Reflections on "Our Common Future".     Africa-Europe Encounter in Porto Novo, Benin, September 1989, by The Council of         Europe and other organizations. A paper published in IFDA Dossier 77/1990.
 
12. “The Donors and Recipients -Who is who?” In International Roundtable “The Opening of         the East: Implications for the South”, Report Series 2/90.Vienna.     

13. “ The Villages in Finland Refuse to Die - Village Action Movement in Finland”. 
        The Finnish American Reporter, October 1997.

	14. “The Villages in Finland Refuse to Die”. The Ecologist, Vol.27 No.5 (1997)

15. “Free Trade and Human Rights - an impossible equation? Women’s Human Rights in the    World of Disparity and Distress.” 
Paper presented in the EU Preparatory Conference for Beijing+5, Brussels, February 2000; and in IAFFE 2000 in Istanbul, August 2000. 

III.  WOMEN'S ISSUES

1.	"The Mobilization of the Public Opinion and Support for the Full Integration of Women in the Development Efforts as a Key Factor in Achieving Desired Goals and Policies in Population and Development".
 			A paper presented in International Forum on the Role of Women in Population and Development in UN Headquarters and Airlie House, Virginia, USA, 1974.

2.	"The Terms of Equality".
Presentation in the International Alliance of Women Conference in Helsinki, July 1982.

3.	"Women's Peace Movement as an Innovative Proponent of the Peace Movement as a  Whole".
A paper prepared for the Second International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Groningen, April 1984. IFDA Dossier 43/1984.

4.	"Women as an Alternative Culture Here and Now".
Development. Journal of the Society for International Development. Rome. No. 4/1984.

5.	"Women's Contribution to the Prerequisite for a Lasting Peace".
A paper in the Reunion of Sisters Conference, Minneapolis, June 1986.

6.	"The Experiences of Women within the Techno-Economic Progress of Our Countries (USA-Finland)".
Introductory paper for a workshop in Reunion of Sisters Conference II, Kuopio, Finland, August 1987.

7. “Women’s Path to Recognition”, Development: Seeds of Change, SID Journal, No 1/2, 1986

8.	"Tomorrow Begins Today. Elements for a Feminine Alternative in the North".
	IFDA Dossier 57/58 January/April 1987.
	Development and Peace. Published by the Hungarian Peace Council and the World
	Peace Council. Vol. 9, No.1. Spring 1988.

9.	"Women's Movements in Development Action".
Paper for the 19th World Conference of SID, New Delhi 1988.

10.  "Women's Voice in the North/South Dialogue. Strategies for Interdependence and       Solidarity".
A thematic introduction to the Symposium by the Council of Europe, in Barcelona 30.-31.5.1988. Published in
- the Report of Symposium. Strasbourg 1988.
- IFDA Dossier 68. Nov./Dec. 1988.

11. "Tomorrow Begins Today: on Women's Alternative for the Sustainable Future".
 Keynote-address; Mediterranean Women's Studies Institute, Summer Program 1988. Spetses, Greece.
	
12.  "Women, Peace and Ecology". Exploring our Common Future.
 An international conference on sustainable development, 24.-25.20.1989. University of Maine.

13.  "Integrating Feminism and Ecophilosophy". International Meeting "Women, Peace,
			 Ecology". Moscow, June 1989.

14.  “The Environment and Sustainable Development. Reflections on ‘Our Common Future’ “
Africa-Europe Encounter. Organized by Council of Europe and the Organization of African Unity. Porto Novo, Benin, 31.08.-03.09.1989. 

15.  "La Contribution de la Mujer como Prerrequisito para una Paz Duradera".
			15 Anos de Feminismo. Poder y Libertad. 1.er Trimestre 1990. Madrid.

	16.  "Making Women Matter. The Role of the United Nations in Changing the World for
		   Women." 
Visiting lecture in the seminar "Feminismo, Ciencia y Transformacion Social", University of Granada, Spain 1992.

     	17. "The Work of the United Nations for the Advancement of Women as the basis and
standard of achievement for the CSCE in order to Integrate a Women's Perspective in        its Work." 
A lecture at the University Forum in connection with the Helsinki Summit of the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe in July 1992 by the National Helsinki Committees and University of Complutense, Madrid.
	
18. (In Russian)” The UN System in the vanguard of advancement of Equality - Development - Peace”, (with Jeanne Vickers), International Affairs Magazine, Moscow. Spring 1995.

      	19.  “UN at 50: Achievements, Lessons and Challenges. Equality - Development - Peace.
		   The UN System in the vanguard of advancement of women, development and peace.”
 (together with Jeanne Vickers.) Conference Paper, WFUNA 35th Plenary Assembly, San Francisco 28-30 June 1995.      

	20.   “Women’s participation in policy- and decision-making - Does it make difference?”                        Paper presented at the INSTRAW panel In NGO Forum, the IV World Conference               on Women, Beijing September 5, 1995.  

21.	 “Women’s Issues Five Years After Beijing: Progress and Drawbacks.” Cooperation
             	   South, United Nations Development Programme, No. 2/2000.

22.	 “Nordic Welfare Society – A Holistic Women-friendly development strategy for eradicating poverty and building up an equal and just human society”. Series of lectures in six cities on invitation of Shizuoka Prefecture Women’s Network in Japan: Hamamatsu, Fukuroi, Numazu, Gotenba, Yaizu and Kakegawa. 22.02-04.03. 2007, altogether about 1200 attendants. 

IV. FEMINIST (ECOLOGICAL) ECONOMICS

	1. 	"Revival on Non-monetary Economy Makes Economic Growth Unnecessary in Small Industrialized Countries". Together with Prof. Kyösti Pulliainen.
IFDA Dossier 35/1983.

2. 	"Daughters of Mother Earth. Women's Culture as an Ethical and Practical Basis for Sustainable Development".  A paper presented in
- The Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, New York 1990
- The Environment. Interdisciplinary Conference. Hofstra University, Hempstead 1990.

	3. 	"A New Picture of Human Economy - A Woman's Perspective." A paper presented in 
- The First International Minoan Celebration of Partnership, Crete 1992,          
			- The Fifth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Costa Rica 1993. 

	4. 	“The Triangle of the Human Economy: Household - Cultivation - Industrial Production. An attempt at making visible the human economy in toto.”
- a paper presented in the IAFFE Summer Conference, Washington, DC, June 1996. 
		- an article published in Ecological Economics, Special Issue on “Women, Ecology     and Economics”,  Vol.20 No.2, February 1997.

	5.	“PRODUCTION. How the Cake is Cut: Production and Economic Well-Being.” 
			A Reader published by Women in Development Europe, WIDE, 1998.

6.  “NON-MARKET WORK IN CONSTRUCTION OF LIVELIHOOD. A Dream of Liberation  from the Drudgery and Slavery of the Markets.” 
    	A paper presented in the IAFFE Summer Conference in Mexico City and Taxco, June 1997.

	7.	“The Full Picture of the Human Economy: Households - Cultivation - Industrial Production.” 
 An opening lecture in the Woman and Earth International Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, December 1997.

8.  “Hacia una economia humana” (A draft for the Human Economy in toto), a lecture in the    series organized by Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Las Relaciones Norte Sur desde la perspectiva de Género (VII edition), April 2001.

9.  “Basic Elements of Human Economy. A Sketch for a Holistic Picture of Human    Economy”. F.Vandamme (ed.) Communication & Cognition. Vol.35. No:s 1-2. 2002. Gent (Belgia)

10.  ”Podstawowe Zalozenia Ekonomii Humanistycznej.”
	  	Lecture in conference “Visions of Humanistic Economy” Warsaw April 2002,
	  	 
             (11. “Cultivation and Households. The Basics for Nurturing Human Life”, 
		The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. EOLSS Publishers Co. Ltd, Surrey, UK 2002. (Mentioned also in section “Contributions to Books”.)

        12. Interview: “We in the North are the Biggest Problem for the South”. A Conversation of Hilkka Pietilä and Ariel Salleh. Capitalism Nature Socialism, Volume 17, 2/2006	

        13. “The Constant Imperative: Provisioning by Cultivation and Households. ‘Ontological presupposition’ of Economics?”  
	        Paper presented in The ninth biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics “Ecological Sustainability and Human Well-being”, New Delhi 15-18, December 2006. 

        14.  “The Unpaid  Work in Households – A Counterforce to Market Globalization” . The paper presented in VII International Conference of Matriarcato e Montagna in Centre of Alpine Ecology, 14-16 December 2007.

V. WELFARE - ELIMINATION OF POVERTY

	1. 	“NORDIC WELFARE SOCIETIES. Women-friendly caring states - equity and efficiency in practice.”
 Paper presented in Out of the Margin 2/IAFFE Conference 1998, Amsterdam, June 1998. 

2.  “Nordic Welfare Society - A holistic women-friendly development strategy for eradication      poverty and building up an equal and just human security. Finland as a case study”,                Paper presented 
		   -	IGGRI Conference, Hanasaari Cultural Centre, Espoo, September 1998,
		   -    IGGRI Group/Foreign Ministry of Finland, Heureka, Vantaa, October 1999.

	3.   ”Construida por el pueplo y el estado: La Assistencia Social en Finlandia.”
	 La otra bolsa de valores,  No. 47. Tlaxpana, Mexico,1998.
	     	
4.  “ In Finland, Welfare was built by People and the State.” Published as a series of four          articles in the New World Finn (Finnish-American Publishers, Inc. Cedar Grove, WI) in August, October, November and December 1999.
 
5. “ Building a Welfare Society: The Finnish experience.”  SID Development, Vol.43. No 2.             June 2000.
6. “Eradicating poverty by building a welfare society. The Finnish Experience.” Paper               presented in IAFFE 2001 Conference in Oslo June 2001.

            7.   “Eradicating Poverty by Building a Welfare Society. Finland as a Case Study”
     ”L’elimination de la pauvreté par la Protection Sociale. Le cas de la Finlande”  
     Cooperation South, Number two 2001, UNDP, New York 
	
8.  ”Masyarakat Kesejahteraan Nordic – Sebuah Strategy Untuk Memberantas              Kemiskinan dan Membangun Kesetaraan. Sudi Kasus Finlandia”.	
     Wacana. Mencari Format Negara Baru. Jurnal Ilmu Sosial Transformatif,
	 Edisi 10. TAHUN III. 2002. Yogayakarta 55281 (Indonesia)

9.  “Women, Citizenship, and the End of Poverty.” YES!  A Journal of Positive Futures. Winter 2003. Bainbridge Island, Washington St., USA

           10.  “Socieda de Nórdica da Accão Social – Uma Estratégia para a Erradicacão da Pobreza e     Para o Alcance da Igualdade. A Finlândia como um Estudo de Caso”. Organizado pelo Fórum  Mulher, em Cooperacão com a Embaixada da Finlândia, Maputo, 8 de Novembro de 2005. 

            11.  “The Nordic Welfare Society – Welfare in Finland built by people and the state”.
(Translation into Japanese) Lectures in six cities in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan 2007.  

(12.  “La sociedad del bienestar en Finlandia”. Conciliación de la vida profesional y familiar.     Editora: Paloma de Villota. Editorial Sintesis. Spain 2008.  Mentioned also in the Contributions to the books.)

 VI.  UNITED NATIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY 

1.	"Budget and Policy of OPI; CESI and it's Relations with the Nordic Information Organs; Participation of UNAs".
Memorandum for the Nordic Meeting in Turku, Finland, August 1975.

2.	"The Role of NGOs in the Field of Public Information".
Background paper prepared for the UN/DESI Development Information Meeting, Helsinki, September, 1979.

3.	"The Role of the UN Public Information Services in Developing a New World Information & Communication Order".
Working paper for WFUNA Seminar on "New World Information & Communication Order". The 28th WFUNA Plenary Assembly, Geneva 1981.

              4.  “The Success Story of Women Civil Society and the United Nations”. 
	  	A Personal Submission to the Secretary General’s Panel of Eminent Persons on the United Nations-Civil Society Relations on their request in October 2003.