The 9th International Forum on Women's Right and Develpoment:
Re-Investing Globasization
October 3-6, 2002,Guadalajara, Mexico
How can we re-invent globalization to further the
rights of all women ?
The 9th international AWID Forum, 3-6 October, 2002
in Guadalajara, Mexico will take an innovative approach
to this central question. We'll go beyond the all
too familiar critique of globalization to examine
what we really see as alternatives and how we translate
these alternative visions into realities.
The AWID Forum is more than just a conference. It
is a unique opportunity for the global women's movement
to assess their successes and failures and forget
new strategies. At the Forum we will ask ourselves
how we can work more effectively, what new strategies
are needed and are really good practices. This is
why the Forum so unique and necessary for the on going
struggle for women's rights, empowerment and social
justice.
Mark your calendar for 3-6 October, 2002, be sure
to register early and start making arrangements to
attend.
Call for Participation
The Call for Participation is an invitation to development
practitioners, researchers, human rights specialists,
activists, policy makers, representatives from multilateral
and bilateral agencies, students and business people
to submit their proposals for the AWID Forum. The
AWID International Planning Committee comprised of
renowned feminists is soliciting proposals from around
the world that can effectively tackle some of the
toughest questions emerging from this new global order.
Participation options include workshops, creative
sessions, debates, poster sessions and skills-building
sessions.
AWID invites submissions in the following five cross-cutting
sub-thematic areas
- Women's Rights and the New Global Order
- Women's Rights and Economic Change
- Feminist Organizational Development
- Young Women and Leadership
- Gender Equality and New Technologies
For a full version of the Call for Participation,
including submission guidelines, please see our website
at http://www.awid.org
or send us an e-mail at forum@awid.org.
Remember that the deadline to submit presentation
proposals is December 31st, 2001.
What is AWID ?
The Association for Women's Rights in Development
(AWID) is an international membership organization
that has been connecting and mobilizing people and
organizations since 1982. A dynamic network of over
1200 institutions and individuals around the world,
AWID members are researchers, academics, students,
educators, activists, business people, policy-makers,
development practitioners, funders, and more, who
are committed to issues at the cutting edge of the
global women's movement.
AWID is best known for its International Forum - our
flagship event held every three years. Each Forum
has been bigger, more dynamic and more international
than the one before. In fact, it is now the largest
recurring event in women's rights and development
outside the UN system. In Washington, D.C. in 1999,
the 8th AWID Forum had more than 1,300 participants
from over 100 countries, with over half from the global
South.
Registration
Use our easy online registration form to ensure your
participation in this dynamic event! The registration
fees include access to all forum sessions, program
materials, forum receptions and some meals. AWID member
rates are $240 US early registration by July 1, 2002;
$280 US after July 1, 2002. For non-member rates,
student rates and more details, please check out the
AWID website at http://www.awid.org.
Also available in Spanish and French
January 25, 2002.
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