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WAFE works to:
90% of the United Nations member states recognise that women’s advancement is crucial to human development.
Women’s equality is unfortunately strongly opposed by some regimes, above all where religious Fundamentalists hold power.
Maltreatment of women is endemic in all these regimes; from denying them equal human rights and status to daily petty restrictions. All the evidence is that communities benefit from women’s advancement. Family size diminishes, children are healthier and better educated, educated women gain better employment, national prosperity rises and marriages are happier.
We work to raise awareness of this fundamentalist threat alongside our work to ensure women realise their full potential. We publish current international reports of women’s advancement and treatment under repressive regimes. We also hold meetings and seminars on these matters.
We aim to use our website to bring you up-to-date worldwide information on these issues.
WAFE Invites you to a meeting on:
Achieving Equality in Parliament
On International Women’s Day, 8th March 2010, in the House of Lords, Room G from 6:00-8:00pm
In the Chair: Baroness Harris of Richmond
Speakers:
Peter Facey, Director of Unlock Democracy and expert in democratic reform
Agneta Stark, Co-Founder of Stödstrumporna, a Swedish feminist Network which made a big impact on the 1994 election with the threat of a ‘Women´s Party’
Kate Growcutt, former Chair of the Young Fabians
Julie Smith, Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University
Discussion will take place in the pub!
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WAFE Salutes
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Elizabeth Fallaize Pro-Vice-Chancellor,
University of Oxford
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Esther Chavez
Mexican Women's Rights Activist
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