Women, Peace and Security Calendar
2008

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Training of gender audit facilitators Print E-mail
March 3-8, 2008, Turin, Italy
International Training Centre, Gender Coordination Unit

This course draws on the extensive experience the ILO has developed in-house in a series of groundbreaking gender audits involving staff and constituents from virtually every region in the world.

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Fourth Annual International Women’s Day Celebration Breakfast
March 4, 2008, San Diego, CA
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice University of San Diego

The Fourth Annual International Women’s Day Celebration Breakfast, co-convened with Voices of Women, the Women’s Equity Council of the United Nations Association of San Diego and the University of San Diego Women’s Center will report on the 52nd annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations in New York.

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International Women's Day: Money and Women: Issues of Equity and Empowerment
Friday, March 7th, 6:00-7:00, 295 Lafayette St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
The NYU- Wagner Women’s Caucus

The Wagner Women's Caucus (WWC) invites you to join annual celebration of International Women's Day. Come hear Nancy Barry examine the growth opportunities in emerging markets and the impact of economic empowerment on women's leadership!

Nancy Barry has fifteen years in leadership positions in industry and finance at the World Bank and sixteen years as President and CEO of Women's World Banking. Ms. Barry with Nancy Barry Associates (NBA) is utilizing her vast experience and entrepreneurial spirit to begin a new initiative to mobilize the private sector in enterprise solutions for poverty. She received the Forbes Trailblazer Award, and was named by Forbes as one of the world's most powerful women in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, US News and World Report named Nancy Barry one of America's 20 Best Leaders. This year, she was named one of Harvard University's 100 graduates with greatest influence and impact.

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Meaningful Movies Film ScreeninIng
March 7, Seattle, USA
Wallingford Neighbord for Peace and Justice

This documentary explores how Rwanda is increasing women's participation in politics and civil society and what that gender justice means to ending and preventing war and other forms of violence.

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International Women's Day
March 8, 2008, Worldwide
United Nations

In 1975, during International Women's Year, the United Nations began celebrating 8 March as International Women's Day. Two years later, in December 1977, the General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming a United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace to be observed on any day of the year by Member States, in accordance with their historical and national traditions.

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Women, Power & Politics exhibition
March 8, 2008, San Francisco, CA
International Museum of Women

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Women and Sustainable Communities - a Little Goes a Long Way
March 12, 2008, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Norwood Hotel, 112 Marion Street, Winnipeg, Canada
The Winnipeg Chapter of UNIFEM

Diana DeLaronde-Colombe, the 1st Canadian to receive the Women’s World Summit Foundation Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life, will speak about her work for the grassroots Northern Foods Initiative in Manitoba.

Tickets $30 from McNally Robinson Bookseller locations.
For more information, please contact Liz 779 9169 or email: unifem@shaw.ca

Women and Public Space: The Case of Afghanistan
March 14, 2008, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York at 12:00 – 2:00pm
Funder's Network for Afghan Women

A look at how women in sports, the police, art, culture and design can change gender inequalities and reshape rules and norms for women’s roles.

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Women, Action & the Media (WAM): A Conference for Activists, Journalists & Everyone
March 28-30, 2008, Cambridge, MA

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