Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq is coorganising  A Global Conference on: “Women and the 21 Century - Feminist Alternatives” and we are cordially inviting you to take part in this conference. Please feel free to get in touch with us for more information about how to participate. 

16-18 December 2010
The Supreme Council of Culture,
1 El Gabalaia  Street, Opera House, El Gezira,
Cairo

Several national and international organisations, networks and initiatives co-organise a Global Conference in Cairo. The Conference takes one of the steps that are urgently needed towards global peace and justice. It will elaborate a feminist critique on the present development and will provide space for exchange of feminist analyses and feminist grassroots work together with other democratic movements and analyses across the world.


Goals of the Conference

•    Elaborate on the link between feminism and its proposals for peace,  justice with secularism, as a global precondition for democracy and development, that contributes to fostering peace at the local and global level; 

•    Provide a space for exchange of views, experiences and knowledge among feminists, peace activists, researchers, practitioners, progressive women and men from the civil society and the political sphere globally;

•    Promote feminist alternatives  to the present increasing influence of  religious fundamentalisms and  conservative thoughts of patriarchal hegemonies;

•    Open broader channels for solidarity communicating, networking, strengthening of the egalitarian community globally.

Draft program can be accessed here.

To download the registration form please click here.

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