Gender international convention
This is a three-day series of activities with the main events being an International Women's conference, an exhibition and Edutainment Show. This seeks to bring women activists from all over the world to share their skills, experiences and knowledge in solidarity with other women. The conference aims to help mobilise and raise awareness about how poverty is created, its local and global impacts and how best it can be eradicated to enhance gender equality.
SHEROES HERITAGE LEARNING INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION (SHLIC)
This is a three-day series of activities with the main events being an International Women’s conference, an exhibition and Edutainment Show. This seeks to bring women activists from all over the world to share their skills, experiences and knowledge in solidarity with other women.
The conference aims to help mobilise and raise awareness about how poverty is created, its local and global impacts and how best it can be eradicated to enhance gender equality.
It will conscientise people to see, explore and understand the global dimensions of their issues. Furthermore it will highlight the efforts of outstanding women activists who are engaged in local, national and international endeavours to eradicate poverty through gender empowerment, with a view to bringing their own examples of best practise into global limelight towards better understanding, solidarity and friendship in the struggle for a new world order.
DATE: Thursday 23rd March – Saturday 25th March 2006
VENUE: London Borough of Greenwich
THEME: WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL JUSTICE STRUGGLE TO MAKE
POVERTY HISTORY
INVITED SPEAKERS: Mrs Asma Al Assad (First Lady of Syria), Angela Davis (Author), Maya Angelou, Baroness Tessa Blackstone (Vice Chancellor, Baroness Sally Hamwee, GLA, University of Greenwich), Mrs Sonia Ghandi, Samia Nkrumah (daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana), Jean Lambert (Member of European Parliament), Harriet Harman (Minister of Constitutional Affairs, London) Cordell Pillay (Deputy General Secretary NAPO), Berverly Manley (Member of Parliament, Jamaica) Mary Honeyball (Member of European Parliament), Teresa Hayter (Author),
Organised upon the initiative of the SIMBA Gender Empowerment Focus Group (SGEFOG) supported by:
Jean Lambert MEP, Jenny Jones GLA, Caroline Lucas MEP, Harriet Harman MP, Baroness Sally Hamwee, The Jamaican High Commission, The High Commission of the Republic of Namibia, Greenwich Diversity Library, Musicians Union, Fire Brigade Union, Methodist Church, Greenwich Directorate of Culture and Community Services, National Union of Students Women’s Campaign Network, Student Union University of Greenwich, YCGN.UK, SURE Communications, African Health for Empowerment and Development (AHEAD) Combating Harassment and Racial Tension (CHART),DBG Art Gallery, Jayne Brown Designs, GFM Radio,
For more information or to make a donation please contact
ADWOA/FADUSA on 0208 317 0451/07985259503
EMAIL: [email protected]
ADDRESS: 48-50 Artillery Place
Woolwich
London
SE18 4AB