AWID

The 10^th AWID International Forum

on Women's Rights and Development

October 27-30, 2005, Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN?

Source: AWID

On October 27-30, 2005, up to 2,000 women’s rights leaders and activists from around the world will converge on Bangkok at the 10^th AWID International Forum to debate the urgent question, "How does change happen?"

The International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development is both a conference and a call to action. The largest recurring event of its kind, the AWID Forum brings together women’s rights leaders and activists from around the world every three years to strategize, network, celebrate, and learn in a highly charged atmosphere that fosters deep discussions and sustained personal and professional growth.

Delegates to the Forum participate in four days of plenary speeches, interactive sessions, workshops, debates, and creative sessions geared to powerful thinking on gender equality and women’s human rights. Delegates also participate in informal caucuses, gala events, cultural activities, and social and political events geared to global and regional networking and alliance-building.

Delegates who participate fully in the Forum not only empower themselves with new tools and resources, but they also, collectively, re-politicize the gender and development community, strengthen alliances between women, and engage in work and thinking that is truly transformative rather than simply palliative.

PROGRAM

The program of the forum has almost 175 innovative sessions in which the participants will choose between them:

Governing Digital Spaces: The Political Economy of the Information Society and Violence Against Women
That Is Not What We Meant At All!: Managing Divergent Discourse and the Consequences of Successful Change
Building Strong Organizations
Economic Change, Changing Economics: An Overview of economic justice, economic rights, development frameworks and what new lessons we can learn
Strategic feminists or sell-outs? Debating the role of young women in different social movements
Do Lesbian/Transgender Rights have a Place in your Work?
Crossing Boundaries: the Politics of 'Femicides' in the Americas
The New Information and Communication Technologies: Tools to Facilitate Change and Integrated Development in Indigenous and Rural Communities
Implementation Stalled: How We Can Move Forward with the UN Agreements
Young Women Creating Alliances for Change!
Strategic Opportunity or Black Hole? Assessing Policy Spaces to Advance Women's Rights
Changes from inside: Rethinking contradictions in gender mainstreaming strategies
Latin America: An Ongoing Debate
Culture, Tradition, Religion and Creating New Identities in Africa
How to Say 'I Love Fundraising'- and Really Mean It
How Can We Balance, Pleasure, Sexuality and Safety?
Strategies, Struggles, and Moving Forward: Perspectives on Working to End Violence Against Women
Secularism as an Alternative to Fundamentalisms: Questions for Feminists
The Women's Movement in the North: Where Has It Gone?
Crash Course in Media Training: How to Effectively Communicate through the Media
All Fired Up! Young Women Advocate for Sexual Rights
Rights and Religion: Women's Perspectives
Women Are Not Just Vaginas: New and old challenges for women activists in Southern Africa
That takes Ovaries! Mobilising Women's Voices and Courage for Change
A Dialogue between Feminist Activists: achievements and obstacles of feminist engagement with other social movements

For the complete program click here: http://www.awid.org/forum/forum_programme.htm