Receptions and Book Launches

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Forum Programme

Thursday, October 27, 7-9pm: Book launches, receptions, poetry and so much more

The International Network of Women's Funds, the Global Fund for Women, and Mama Cash invite members, grantees, donors, and friends old and new to this joint reception. Celebrate the commitment of expanding resources available to women's rights organisations worldwide. Refreshments provided. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Rattankosin

ActionAid International in collaboration with the Southern Africa AIDS information Service, (SAFAIDS), will be launching their new Women's Treatment Literacy Toolkit aimed at increasing women's AIDS treatment literacy. Refreshments provided. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Myanmar 3

Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF) have joined to host a reception for all French-speaking delegates to the Forum and their friends. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Chiang Mai 1

Join this celebration of our vibrant multi-centred feminist movement, struggling not just for equality within existing structures, but for a future world that welcomes diversity and sustains life. Devaki Jain's Women, Development and the UN (Indiana University) and Feminist Politics, Activism & Vision: Local and Global Challenges edited by Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles and Margaret H. McFadden (Inanna/Zed) feature new understandings of feminist practice at local, national and global levels. Refreshments provided. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Myanmar 2

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) will launch their brand new video on DAWN's "Twenty Years of Existence and Advocacy". Come and see the forty minute video, edited by Deepa Danhraj and Valentina Homem, and meet great feminist leaders. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Myanmar 1

The Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Program (APC WNSP) and the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) will be showcasing the winners of their notable Gender and ICT awards. Hear how women are using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to empower themselves and change their conditions of poverty. Refreshments will be served. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Chiangmai 2

Bring your meeting-weary souls to an evening of poetry by Teresia Teiwa (Fiji) and Jully Sipolo (Solomon Islands), both poets and feminists, and other Pacific participants. They will read their own and other Pacific women's writing and poetry on the Pacific environment, development issues, and women's perspectives on the struggles for women's rights and identities in these small Pacific Island states. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Ayuthaya 1

Celebrate the launch of Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia co-edited by Geetanjali Misra (CREA) and Radhika Chandiramani (TARSHI) published by Sage Publications. Meet the editors and authors. Refreshments provided. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Malaysia

A salon on feminist organising around sexual rights: What is a feminist sexual rights agenda? Who has one? Can we/should we continue towards a UN resolution on sexual orientation? A discussion for those who like to stay up late! Organised by: ACPD, CREA and the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice. From 21:00-23:00. Food and drinks provided. Room: Malaysia

Kumarian Press invites you to the launch of one of their latest books: Women and the Politics of Place, edited by Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar. The collection highlights the interrelations between place, gender, politics, and justice, drawing upon women's placed-based experiences across the globe. Wendy Harcourt and other contributors will be there for book launch and signing. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Singapore

Oxfam and Routledge Journals invite you to celebrate the relaunch of Oxfam's renowned Gender and Development Journal. Come and meet the editor and members of the editorial advisory board and find out more. The reception also features a major new Oxfam photo exhibition on women's lives worldwide. Refreshments provided. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Indonesia

AWID is thrilled to be launching its latest publication produced with ZED Press Defending our Dreams: Feminist Voices for a New Generation that highlights the visions and strategies of young women around the world. Refreshments provided. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Thonburi

The Coalition of African Lesbians will proudly launch the book: Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives, a reader on same-sex practices among women in seven Southern African countries, and inform about the ambitious plans of the Coalition. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Sukothai

Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) will launch the (English edition) Guide to Equality in the Family in the Maghreb, a unique advocacy tool for activists struggling to create egalitarian communities in Muslimmajority societies. The Guide outlines a strategy for reforming family law that relates change to women's capability to choose. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Philippines

Join UNIFEM and their partners in the launch of the Progress of the World's Women 2005, which focuses on women's work in the informal economy and the way in which this needs to be attended to in poverty reduction strategies. Time: 19:00-21:00. Room: Brunei

Peacebuilding Cyberdialogues on the UN Security Council Resolution 1325: A global Town Hall meeting on Women, Peace and Security October 27,2005 - 7:00- 9:00 p.m. Room: Ayuthaya 2
A global town hall meeting where women from Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Fiji, Nepal, the Philippines, Timor Leste, Germany, USA, and other countries will sit at the table with policy makers and gender advocates at the international level to discuss issues of peace and security. The peacebuilding cyberdialogues also hope to examine the changes on how war and conflict are being addressed from the international to the local level given the signing of landmark policy documents such as UNSCR 1325 and the Rome Statute; and how women's roles in conflict, including its prevention and resolution, have changed through the years.
Combining the power of the new information and communication technologies and the broad reach of radio, the International Women's Tribune Centre is organising this global town hall meeting in collaboration with Isis WICCE.
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, International Women's Tribune Center, The Philippines
Elizabeth Calvin, Jessica Babihuga Nkuuhe, Harriet Nabukeera Musoke, ISIS International, Uganda