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