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Events: MADRE at CSW

Posted on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Keywords: Events, Women's Health, Economic Justice, Combating Violence Against Women, Environmental Justice, CSW, UN

Join MADRE for the Following Events at the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

Events:
MADRE-Sponsored Event: Strategize with Rural Women - Thursday, March 1, 12:30-2:00pm
Struggling to Survive: Sexual Violence and Exploitation of Women and Girls in Post-Disaster Haiti - Thursday, March 1, 6:00-8:00 PM
Rural Women and the Right to Water - Friday, March 2, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Intersections of Violence Against Women and Militarism - Wednesday, February 29, 12:30—2:00 p.m.

1) MADRE-Sponsored Event: Strategize with Rural Women

Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Place: The Chapel, 1st floor room at the Church Center (located at the intersection of 44th Street and 1st Avenue), New York, NY

Grassroots women are the world’s foremost rural development experts. But their knowledge is often ignored by policymakers. Come hear from them as they strategize, build solutions and make their voices heard.

Please join MADRE on Thursday, March 1, 2012 to hear rural women tell their stories and share their strategies.

MADRE partners speaking at this event:

Hubbie Hussein al Haji, Womankind Kenya (Kenya) – on women’s strategies to provide famine relief
Fatima Ahmed, Zenab for Women in Development (Sudan) – on unionizing women farmers to combat discrimination and adapt to climate change
Rose Cunningham, Wangki Tangni (Nicaragua) – on Indigenous women’s organizing to end hunger and violence
Malya Villard Appolon, KOFAVIV (Haiti) – on the experiences of rural women displaced to urban areas

Click here to view the event flyer.

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2) Struggling to Survive: Sexual Violence and Exploitation of Women and Girls in Post-Disaster Haiti

Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Place: Vanderbilt Hall, Room 218 (40 Washington square south)

Please join MADRE, our partner organization KOFAVIV and the NYU School of Law’s Global Justice Clinic/Center for Human Rights and Global Justice for a panel discussion about the sexual violence and exploitation of women and girls in post-earthquake Haiti.

The event will feature grassroots advocates from Haiti and legal experts in the areas of human rights advocacy and gender-based violence. Panelists will discuss MADRE's report, “Struggling to Survive: Sexual Exploitation of Displaced Women and Girls in Port au Prince, Haiti," on sexual violence and the exploitation of women and girls in Haiti.

Featured panelists:

Eramithe Delva, Leader, KOFAVIV, Panelist
Malya Villard Appolon, Leader, KOFAVIV, Panelist
Jocie Philistin, Leader, KOFAVIV, Panelist
Meg Satterthwaite, Faculty Director, CHRGJ; Professor, Global Justice Clinic, Panelist
Cynthia Soohoo, Director, International Women’s Human Rights Clinic, Associate Professor, CUNY Law School, Moderator

RSVP and valid ID required. Event will be preceded by a reception from 6:00-6:30. Please RSVP to Audrey Watne at watnea@exchange.law.nyu.edu

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3) Rural Women and the Right to Water

Date: Friday, March 2, 2012
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Place: Salvation Army - Auditorium - 221 East 52nd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Ave)

Access to clean, safe water is a basic human right. But around the world, it is women and girls who are responsible for providing water to households. That division of labor makes water a critical women's human rights concern.

Join MADRE for a panel discussion on the movement to secure clean water rights for all. Expert panelists will discuss the connections between water and economic justice, women's human rights, environmental sustainability and peace.

Featured speakers:

Government of Sierra Leone - Hon. Stephen Gaojia, Minister for Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs
UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Water & Sanitation - Ms. Catarina De Albuquerque - Statement
Isis International - Ms. Lalen de Vela
MADRE - Ms. Diana Duarte, Communications Director
WASH-Net - Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Network - Sierra Leone - Mr. Musa Ansumana Soko, National Chairman
Gender & Water Alliance - Ms. Joke Muylwijk, Executive Director
Food & Water Watch - Ms. Marcela Olivera, Latin American Coordinator & Visiting Global Associate - Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University
PWESCR - Programme on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights - Ms. Priti Darooka, Executive Director
WEDO - Women’s Environment & Development Organization - Ms. Cate Owren, Executive Director
Women’s UN Report Network - WUNRN Power Point on Global Dimensions of Women & Water - Ms. Lois A. Herman, Coordinator

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4) Intersections of Violence Against Women and Militarism

Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Time: 12:30—2:00 p.m.
Place: United Nations Church Center, 2nd floor room

Join MADRE and The Center for Women’s Global Leadership for a panel discussion on the links between the perpetuation of militarism and its consequences for the safety and security of all.

The panel will focus on key issues of relevance, including political violence against women, sexual violence during and post-conflict, and the roles of women’s, peace, and human rights movements in challenging the links between violence against women and militarism.

Featured panelists: