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— Graduate Women
International news —
The
Graduate Women International Conference in Cape Town will
examine women’s entrepreneurship and economic
empowerment
The Graduate Women International (GWI) 32nd Triennial
Conference, 24-26 August Cape Town, South Africa, will explore the need to
encourage educational activities which promote women’s entrepreneurship and
economic empowerment. Through quality education, girls and women can gain
entrepreneurial skills to help them initiate their own careers and have the
confidence to lead others. The GWI Conference will include interactive panels,
seminars and workshops on this strand: Apoorv Bamba from Startup Safari will lead a panel on Entrepreneurship
seeding: Education as a catalyst; Deidre Ahern, Assistant Professor and
Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin will lead a panel on Realising the
leadership Potential of Women in Business - are quotas really the answer?;
and Felicity Coughlan from the Independent Institute of Education will examine The risks
of forgetting the boys as we achieve better access for girls, among
others. Sign up today to join this exciting conference at www.gwiconference.org. Read our press release here.
— GWI member news
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GWI members
will contribute exciting and contextually relevant sessions to the GWI
conferenceThe GWI Conference in Cape Town will draw on the wealth of skills
and experience represented in GWI’s global membership though its affiliated federations and
associations (NFAs). These sessions aim to share experience and demonstrate best
practice drawn from hands-on initiatives carried out in GWI member communities
worldwide. Titles of sessions include: Participatory and rights based
approaches to enhance effective education for women: International Case Studies;
What Makes a Successful Project: Participating NFAs share their experience of
Bina Roy Projects, and Gender and International Organisations; A
feminists' window to human rights and education. For more information on
the programme see here: www.gwiconference.org.
— Advocacy
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International
Day of Indigenous Peoples, 9 August 2016 The theme of the
2016 International Day was: Indigenous People’s Right to Education. This right
is stipulated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and
the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960).
Education can be a means through which indigenous peoples manage the development
of their communities and actively participate at all levels of decision-making
processes. Barriers to education for indigenous girls and women need to be
addressed, as they often experience greater obstacles to realise this right than
boys. This means ensuring provision of education in the indigenous mother
tongue; finding innovative ways to reach isolated communities such as through
radio; and cultural sensitivity in educational approaches.
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Applications
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Call for
Submissions – Online Women Human Rights Defenders Tribute
The Association for
Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) will launch the 2016 Online Tribute to
Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) as part of the annual 16 Days of Activism
Against Gender Based Violence campaign, November 25 – December 10, 2016. Stories
(biographies and photos) are invited of feminists and WHRDs and who are no
longer with us. Please send your contribution to membership@awid.org by September 30, 2016. AWID
especially encourages submissions concerning groups routinely rendered
invisible, such as young women, disabled women, sex workers, and indigenous
women.
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Legacies
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As a non-profit,
non-governmental organisation, GWI is sincerely grateful for all donations received from the wills of members and patrons, which make a significant difference in enabling
advocacy activities and projects. By leaving a gift in your will to GWI, you are
supporting the organisation to continue its mission to increase access to
lifelong education for girls and women globally. Please remember to update your
legacy to GWI if you have already made one for IFUW.
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