Powerful Women: Shifting The Status Quo
Friday, March 27, 2009
Session Description
An emerging phenomenon in parts of the developing world is that of women holding power in political structures, including structures previously seen as being the preserve of men. Women also navigate traditional power structures to bring to the fore the economic interests and societal rights of women. Are there robust and sustainable models emerging which can illuminate political, legal and economic power structures? Women share how they brought vitality and hope to their communities.
Time & Location
Time:
10:45 - 12:15, Friday, March 27, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Board Member, Beijing Cultural Development Centre for Rural Women
Wu Qing had been teaching English from 1960-2000 at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She won many awards for her excellent teaching. Since the mid 1980s, she has been actively promoting human rights and women’s rights. She is on many national and international women NGO boards. She is…
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Dr. Yacoobi serves on several boards and panels including, the Women’s Refugee Commission, International Advisory Council for the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, New Global Citizens, the Advisory Council for the Center for Social Impact Learning at the Middlebury Institute…
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Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders; Co-Founder, Project Dandelion, Pat Mitchell Media
Pat Mitchell is a lifelong advocate for womenʼs leadership who has used her diverse spheres of influence to elevate womenʼs stories and representation and to lead for a more just, equitable and sustainable world. Currently, sheʼs the Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders, a collective problem…
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Lecturer of Law, University of Pretoria
Lungowe Matakala is a Zambian citizen teaching at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Chishinga holds an LLB, an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa; and is soon to submit a PhD thesis to the University of Cambridge. Chishinga’s research focuses on the inheritance rights of…
