One of Mudd’s newest acces­sions, the Kris­ten Tim­o­thy Papers, finds itself in good com­pany with other Mudd col­lec­tions doc­u­ment­ing indi­vid­u­als who have had pro­found influ­ence in the United Nations, includ­ing the papers of Mar­garet Sny­der, Regional Advi­sor of the

United Nations Eco­nomic Com­mis­sion for Africa; Henry R. Labouisse, Direc­tor of UNRWA and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of UNICEF; David A. Morse, Director-General of the ILO; and many other luminaries.

Tim­o­thy orga­nized the United Nations’ Fourth World Con­fer­ence on Women in Bei­jing in 1995. The con­fer­ence addressed endur­ing inequal­i­ties for women and girls across the world. Tim­o­thy was instru­men­tal in out­lin­ing the Bei­jing Dec­la­ra­tion and Plat­form for Action, which were adopted by con­sen­sus on 15 Sep­tem­ber 1995.

Timothy’s records include audio-visual mate­ri­als (much of which is avail­able online), records regard­ing the cre­ation of the plat­form for action, mate­ri­als cre­ated in prepa­ra­tion for and dur­ing the con­fer­ence, and a series of Timothy’s research records on the his­tory of the global women’s movement.

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