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About the Forum
Introduction | International Planning Committee | Forum Testimonials
International Planning Committee
Planning for the 2008 International Forum on Women's Rights and Development is spearheaded by an International Planning Committee (IPC) made up of renowned feminist thinkers and leaders from around the world.
Lina Abou-Habib
Lina is the director of the Collective for Research and Training-Action (www.crtda.org) based in Beirut and working in the Arab region [more...].
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
Bisi is Nigerian/British and is the Executive Director of the African Women's development Fund, an Africa-wide grantmaking organisation supporting the women's movement in Africa [more...].
Cecilia Alemany
Cecilia is Research and Advocacy Coordinator at AWID and a PhD Candidate on Multidisciplinary Studies of the Latin-American Societies (IHEAL - University Paris III Sorbonne La Nouvelle since 2004) [more...]
Lydia Alpízar Duran
Lydia is executive director of AWID and a feminist activist from Costa Rica who lives in Mexico City [more...]
Peggy Antrobus
Born in the Caribbean, Peggy Antrobus has worked for the advancement of women's rights and development throughout her life, starting with her post as Advisor on Women's Affairs to the government of Jamaica in 1974 [more...]
Ireen Dubel
Ireen is the programme manager of Gender, Women & Development at Hivos, the Humanistic Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries [more...]
Enisa Eminova
Enisa Eminova is a Roma woman. Her path to activism started when she was 17, as a volunteer in the Roma Education programme run by the Open Society Institute [more...]
Eleonora Fayzullaeva
Eleonora has been in the field of women's human rights since 1996. Her participation in this field began with a spontaneous awareness of existing gender disparity that lay on the surface of everything and could be explicitly seen and felt [more...]
Sharen Gokal
Shareen is AWID's Strategic Initiative Manager for Resisting and Challenging Fundamentalisms [more...]
Jessica Horn
Jessica Horn is a feminist activist with roots in western Uganda and the eastern USA. She is currently based in Freetown, Sierra Leone and works as an independent consultant on women's rights. [more...]
Brigid Inder
Brigid is the founding Executive Director of the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, an international women's human rights organisation advocating for the prosecution of gender based crimes through the newly established International Criminal Court (ICC) [more...]
Jac SM Kee
Jac SM Kee is a feminist activist committed to transformative politics in the issues of violence against women, culture, 'race', identities, communications & information rights and sexualities [more...]
Joanna Kerr
Joanna is the former executive director of AWID (2000-2006) and is currently working as a consultant in the area of women's rights and development [more...]
Helen Sunhee Kim
Helen is a team member of the Building Movement Project, based in New York, USA, and is an organizational development consultant [more...]
Mi-Yeon (Mijoo) Kim
Mijoo's expertise is in the area of rights for women with physical disabilities and social welfare [more...]
Marusia López Cruz
Marusia is the Civil Society Movements Outreach Coordinator for the Consorcio para el Diálogo Parlamentario y la Equidad [more...]
Sipho Mthathi
Sipho Mthathi is the Treatment Action Campaign's (TAC) General Secretary [more...]
Parastoo Anita Mesri
Parastoo Anita is the Program Coordinator of AWID's Building Feminist Movements and Organizations Strategic Initiative [more...]
Geetanjali Misra
Geetanjali is currently the president of the board of directors for AWID and executive director of CREA (Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action), a not-for-profit organization that works internationally [more...]
Sisonnke Msimang
Sisonke is currently programme director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), and manager of the organisation's HIV and AIDS Programme [more...]
Sanushka Mudaliar
Sanushka Mudaliar is the Young Feminist Activist coordinator for AWID [more...]
Noelene Nabulivou
Noelene has been working in diverse communities in rural, remote and urban Fiji and Australia since 1986 [more...]
Jessica B. Nkuuhe
Jessica Babihuga Nkuuhe is a feminist, and human rights and peace activist [more...]
Zawadi Nyong'o
Zawadi is the strategic initiative coordinator for Where is the Money for Women's Rights, AWID [more...]
Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck
Dr. Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck was born in Moscow, Russia. She graduated with Distinction from Moscow Lomonosof State University (Department of Economics) and defended her Ph.D. at the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences [more...]
Kavita N. Ramdas
Kavita N. Ramdas provides leadership and direction to the Global Fund for Women, the largest grantmaking foundation in the world focused exclusively on supporting international women's human rights. [more...]
Tarcila Rivera Zea
Tarcila Rivera Zea is Quechuan journalist was born in Vilcashuamán Ayacucho [more...]
Joanna Sandler
Joanne Sandler is the deputy executive director for programmes of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) [more...]
Caroline Sin
Caroline Sin is forum manager at AWID [more...]
Anna Turley
Anna is the Women's Rights Information Manager for AWID [more...]
Lisa Veneklasen
Lisa is the founding director of Just Associates (JASS), a global network of activists, popular educators and scholars in 13 countries, known for innovative women's rights advocacy training, strategies and tools [more...]