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In The Aftermath of Terror: Women Leaders Discuss Peace, Justice & Conflict Resolution In A Globalized World
September 24-27, 2001
A Live Interactive Radio Webcast Discussion
This electronic colloqium brought women's perspectives into the discussion of the events and consequences of September 11, 2001.
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presented by
WLP IN COLLABORATION WITH
Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) &
Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS)
WHERE
Tune in to FIRE: www.fire.or.cr
WHEN
September 24 to September 27, 2001 (Monday to Thursday)
11:30 a.m. EST (9:30 a.m. Costa Rica time)
Check time differences and confirm your local time at www.worldtimeserver.com
Panel Discussion: 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon EST
Questions/Comments from Webcast Participants: 12:00-1:30 p.m. EST
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Join the conversation by -
Email: fuegocr@racsa.co.cr
Chat Room: www.fire.or.cr/chatroomfire.htm
Telephone: Call the webcast collect. See list below for the number to call from your country.
PANELISTS INCLUDE
| PANEL 1: Monday, September 24 |
PANEL 2: Tuesday, September 25 |
| Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran) Devaki Jain (India) Azza Karam (Egypt) Huguette Labelle (Canada) Listen to audio archive. |
Suheir Azzouni (Palestine) Joanna Kerr (Canada) Ayo Obe (Nigeria) Listen to audio archive. |
| PANEL 3: Wednesday, September 26 |
CONCLUDING SESSION: Thursday, September 27 |
| Charlotte Bunch (U.S.) Asma Khader (Jordan) Jacqueline Pitanguy (Brazil) Aruna Rao (India) Listen to audio archive. |
Rakhee Goyal (WLP) Zieba Shorish-Shamley (Afghanistan) María Suárez (FIRE) Frieda Werden (WINGS) |
Following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 in the US, and in order to bring women's perspectives into the discussion of this horrendous event and its consequences, women leaders from across the world join in an electronic colloquium:
- to express their sympathy for the victims;
- to discuss the effect of the tragedy on the future of world peace, inter-communal justice, and human rights;
- to assess various possible military, economic, and developmental responses governments may undertake and their impact on civil society; and
- to explore ways of mobilizing individuals and NGOs to build global solidarity for the rule of law, tolerance, and peaceful resolution of conflicts across regions and faiths.
PANEL 1: Monday, September 24, 2001
Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran) is Founder and President of the Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) and former Minister of State for Women's Affairs in Iran.
Devaki Jain (India), a Founding Member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), is a development economist and women’s rights and democracy activist.
Azza Karam (Egypt) is Director of the Women's Program at Religions for Peace and has published extensively on the status of women's rights in Muslim societies.
Huguette Labelle (Canada), former President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), is Chancellor of the University of Ottawa.
PANEL 2: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Suheir Azzouni (Palestine), former Executive Director of the Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC), has written and lectured extensively on Palestinian women’s rights.
Joanne Kerr (Canada) is Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) and former Senior Researcher at The North-South Institute.
Ayo Obe (Nigeria) is President of Nigeria’s Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) and a Steering Committee Member of the World Movement for Democracy (WMD).
PANEL 3: Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Charlotte Bunch (U.S.), Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University, has been a women’s human rights activist for over three decades.
Asma Khader (Jordan), Executive Committee Member of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), is a leading advocate of the campaign to outlaw honor killings in Jordan.
Jacqueline Pitanguy (Brazil), a leading women’s rights activist and sociologist specializing in public health and gender issues, is founder and director of Cidadania, Estudo, Pesquisa, Informação e Ação (CEPIA).
Aruna Rao (India) is a coordinator of the Gender At Work Collaborative, a global initiative to establish a knowledge and action network on institutional change for gender equality.
CONCLUDING SESSION: Thursday, September 27, 2001
Rakhee Goyal (WLP), Director of Research & Technology at WLP, coordinates the creation of culture-specific multimedia tools and application of ICTs for women's empowerment.
Zieba Shorish-Shamley (Afghanistan) is Director of the Women´s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan (WAPHA).
María Suárez (FIRE) is executive producer at Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE).
Frieda Werden (WINGS) is executive producer at Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS).
Call webcast collect from your country:
| FROM | DIAL | CONNECT TO |
| Argentina | 800 2 5060 | 249 1319 |
| Belgium | 800 10506 | 249 1319 |
| Belize | 820 | 249 1319 |
| Brazil | 000 8050611 | 249 1319 |
| Canada | 1800 463 0116 | 249 1319 |
| Colombia | 980 50 0057 | 249 1319 |
| Chile | 123 003 5061 | 249 1319 |
| Denmark | 800 100 25 | 249 1319 |
| Dominican Republic | 1800 751 5100 | 249 1319 |
| Finland | 980 01 0506 | 249 1319 |
| France | 0800 990506 | 249 1319 |
| Germany | 0130 800 506 | 249 1319 |
| Great Britain | 0800 89 0116 | 249 1319 |
| Guatemala | 9999 506 | 249 1319 |
| Holland | 0800 0221506 | 249 1319 |
| Israel | 177 506 2727 | 249 1319 |
| Italy | 172 1116 | 249 1319 |
| Japan | 0039 506 | 249 1319 |
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| Puerto Rico | 1800 252 5114 | 249 1319 |
| Spain | 900 990 506 | 249 1319 |
| Switzerland | 155 5090 | 249 1319 |
| Uruguay | 000 4506 | 249 1319 |
| United States | 1800 252 5114 | 249 1319 |
| Venezuela | 800 11506 | 249 1319 |
For more information, please contact:
FIRE - Feminist International Radio Endeavor
P.O. Box 239
Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
Tel/Fax: 506-249-1319
Email: fuegocr@racsa.co.cr
Web: www.fire.or.cr
WINGS - Women's International News Gathering Service
P.O. Box 33220
Austin, TX 78764
Tel: 512-416-9000
Email: wings@wings.org
Web: www.wings.org
WLP - Women's Learning Partnership
4343 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 201
Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel: 301-654-2774; Fax: 301-654-2775
Email: wlp@learningpartnership.org
Web: www.learningpartnership.org
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