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October 27, 2005 | October 28, 2005 | October 29, 2005 | October 30, 2005
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Live webcasting of the AWID Forum from Bangkok, Thailand, October 27-30, 2005
October 30, 2005
Final Plenary: How does change happen? A Wrap-up
Introduction and comments of the participants
Maria Alejandra Scampini Franco, REPEM, Uruguay (Spanish)
Bella Matambanadzo, OSISA, Zimbabwe
Bishakha Datta, Point of View, India
Yvonne Underhill-Sem, DAWN, New Zealand
Lisa VeneKlasen, Just Associates, USA
Geetanjali Misra, CREA (moderator)
Session: Growing Crisis - Growing Older: Creating a Society for Women of all Ages
Rosa G. Lizarde, Education & Networking for Latinas' Cooperation and Empowerment, USA
Marta Benavides, International Institute for Cooperation amongst people, El Salvador
Gloria Coreaga, UNAM, México
October 29, 2005
Plenary Session: How should we change?
Lina Abou-Habib, (moderator)
Pramada Menon, CREA, India
Marcela Ríos Tobar, Chile
Enisa Eminova, Macedonia
Sylvia Tamale, Uganda
Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, USA
Lydia Alpizar, AWID, Costa Rica
Session: Gender, Sexuality and Law Reform in Muslim Societies: Successful Campaigns from the Middle East and Southeast Asia
Pinar Ilkkaracan, Women for Womens Human Rights - New Ways, Turkey
Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, MP, Indonesia
Rabea Naciri, Morocco (french)
Comments & Questions
Session: Wartime of Social Change: A Teach in and Speak Out Room
Hibaaq Osman, Special Representative to the Middle East in Africa (moderator)
Afifa Azim Nazir, Afgan Womens Network, Afghanistan
Zuhra Halimova, Open Society Institute Assistance Fundation, Tayikistan
Omaima Elmardi, GCRT, Sudan Gender Center for Research and Training, Sudan
Nafissa Lahreche, Women Communication Assortion, Argelia
Maya Alrahaby, Siria
Yanar Mohammed, Organization of Womens Freedom in Irak, Irak
Comments
October 28, 2005
Plenary Session: What is the change around us?
Anita Nayar (moderator), India/Marsha T Darling, USA/Yassine Fall, Senegal/Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, Indonesia/Yanar Mohammed, Irak/Ramesh Singh, Nepal/Virginia Vargas, Peru'
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Session: Strategies, Struggles, and Moving Forward: Perspectives on Working to End Violence Against Women
Lydia Alpizar, AWID, Mexico
Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), USA
Sunila Abeysekera, INFORM, Sri Lanka
Everjoice Win, Action Aid, Zimbabwe
Shirkat Gat, Amnesty International, Asia
Brigit Inder, Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, The Netherlands
Barbara Limanowska, SEE Rights, Poland
Comments & questions
Session: From Stigma to Activism: Feminist and Women's Movements Addressing the Challenge of HIV and AIDS
Monique Tandoi Wanjala, WOFKA, Kenya
Shamillah Wilson, AWID, South Africa
Kanjoo Mbaindjikua, World YWCA, Namibia
Mary Wandia, Action Aid, Kenya
Comments & questions
October 27, 2005
Opening Plenary: What have we changed and how?
Shareen Gokal, WHRnet Manager, AWID and Shamillah Wilson, Manager, Young Women and Leadership Program, AWID
Sunila Abeysekera, director of INFORM, Sri Lanka
Junya Lek Yimprasert, founder of Tai Labour Campaign, Tailand
Noelene Nabalivou, Fiji
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, AWID board President and Executive director of African Women's Development Fund - closing words
Session: Models of Resistance: Victims as Leaders
Terry McGovern, Women's Health and Human Rights Advocacy Initiative, Law and Policy Project, USA/moderator
Annick Kayetesi, Survivor of the genocide in Ruanda (french)
Monica Gabrielle, 9/11 Families for Truth and Justice, and Terry McGovern, USA
Visaka Dhamadasa, from and organization of survivors and family members of missing people during the conflict, Sri Lanka
Madhavi Kuckreja, "Working with survivors and the advocate in survivor relatioship", India
Sunila Abeysekera, Relationship between survivors and human rigths organizations, Sri Lanka
Farida Shaheed, WLUML, Summarizing, Pakistan/moderator
Questions and comments part 1
Questions and comments part 2
Session: The New Circumstances, New/Old Subjects and New Paradigms of Global Feminisms
Virginia Vargas, Colectivo Flora Tristán, Perú (spanish)
Sunila Abeyesekera, INFORM, Sri Lanka
Colective Dialogue Part 1
Colective Dialogue Part 2
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