Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace (WLP) in collaboration with Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) and Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS)will present a live web-cast discussion on the website www.fire.or.cr Monday through Thursday, 24-27 September 2001 at 11:30 am (US Eastern Standard Time). Check time differences and confirm your local time at www.worldtimeserver.com. Participants include: Mahnaz Afkham - President, Women's Learning partnership and former Minister of State for Women's Affairs in Iran, Suheir Azzouni - former Executive Director of the Women's Affairs TEchnical Committee and has written and lectured extensively on Plaestinian women's rights, Charlotte Bunch - Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, Devaki Jain - Founding Member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Joanna Kerr - Executive Director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development, Asma Khader - Executive Committee Member of the International Commission of Jurists and leading advocate of the campaign to outlaw honour killings in Jordan, Huguette Labelle - former President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Ayo Obe - President of Nigeria's Civil Liberties Organization, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo - former Prime Minister of Portugal, Jacqueline Pitanguy - leading women's rights activist and sociologist specializing in public health and gender issues, and Aruna Rao - coordinator of the Gender At Work Collaborative a global initiative to establish knowledge and action work on institutional change for gender equality. For more information contact Women's Learning Partnership at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see their website at www.learningpartnership.org Jeannie Ash de Pou United Nations INSTRAW Tel: (809) 685-2111 Fax: (809) 685-2117 www.un-instraw.org This is GainsNet, the mailing list of the UN-INSTRAW-GAINS Network Members. To reply to the GainsNet group, click on "reply all" To reply to an individual, click on "reply" To unsubscribe from GainsNet, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line
