7th EAST- WEST DIALOGUE Gender Equality and Development Barcelona, 26-27 October 2010
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Draft at 06/10/2010
Within the framework of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Conference and the 10th anniversary of UN Resolution 1325, Casa Asia in its firm commitment to gender equality, empowerment of women, the Millenium Development Goals and Peace, focuses the 7th East-West Dialogue on Gender Equality and Development. The debates of the 7th East-West Dialogue will focus around issues such as Gender-based violence and Health, Political Participation and Economic Development, as well as Education and Culture for Development. This 7th East-West Dialogue is organized by Casa Asia with the collaboration of prestigious institutions such as UNESCO, the United Nations Association of Spain (ANUE), with the support of the Barcelona City Council and with the financial support of the Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID).
TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2010 Venue: Sal de Cent, Barcelona City Hall, Pl. Sant Jaume 1, Barcelona 5 pm OPENING SESSION
Jordi Hereu, Mayor of Barcelona Jess Sanz, Director General of Casa Asia Luis Felipe Fernndez de la Pea*, Director General for North America, Asia and the Pacific, MAEC Elena Madrazo*, Director of the Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID) Representative of the Generalitat of Catalonia
6 pm
PLENARY SESSION: TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY
A GLOBAL
AGENDA FOR
Chaired by: Vishakha N. Desai, President and CEO of the Asia Society Ing KanthaPhavy, Minister of Women Affairs, Cambodia Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa*, President of the Vietnam Womens Union and Vice Chairwoman of the National Committee for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women, Vietnam Teresita Quintos-Deles, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, Republic of the Philippines Sherry Rehman, Former Federal Minister for Information, Pakistan
7.30 pm 8:00 pm
DEBATE END OF THE PLENARY SESSION
*To be confirmed
WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER 2010 Auditorio Tagore, Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal 373, Barcelona 9.30 am GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND HEALTH
Chaired by: Moni Pizani, Regional Programme Director UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia Regional Office, UNIFEM (Part of UN Women)
WOMEN, HEALTH AND CONFLICT
Cynthia Maung*, founder and director, Mae Tao Clinic, and XX Catalonia International Prize 2008, Thailand
CHALLENGES FOR MASS MEDIA AND GENDER VIOLENCE
Nahid Tavassoli, Journalist and Activist Women's Rights, Iran
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Sigma Huda, former UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children, Bangladesh
WOMEN ACTIVISTS FIGHTING GENDER VIOLENCE
Palwasha Hassan, womens rights activist and founding member of the Afghan Womens Network, Afghanistan
THE FIGHT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Kamala Chandrakirana, Secretary General of the Indonesian National Commission on Violence Against Women, Indonesia
Representative from ANUE
11.00 am 11.30 am
DEBATE COFFEE BREAK
*To be confirmed
12.00 am
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Chaired by: Elena Pisonero*, director of Infrastructures and Government, KPMG, Spain
WOMEN IN PEACE PROCESSES
Mucha-Shim Q. Arquiza, Secretary General of the Asian Muslim Action Network in the Philipinnes (AMAN-PHIL), Philippines
WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT
Cholpon Nogoibaeva, President of the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, Kyrgyzstan
WOMENS RIGHTS AND MEDIA
Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, Board Member of Sisters in Islam (SIS), Malaysia
WOMEN, POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT
Nasim Zehra, Director of Current Affairs, Dunya News TV, Pakistan
WOMEN, BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT
Ambica Shrestha, President, Federation of Business and Professional Women and Honorary Consul of Spain in Kathmandu, Nepal Representative from ANUE 1.30-2.00 pm DEBATE
4.30 pm EDUCATION AND CULTURE FOR DEVELOPMENT (With the collaboration of UNESCO) Chaired by: Saniye Glser Corat , Director of the Division for Gender Equality Office of the Director-General, UNESCO
GENDER AND CULTURE OF PEACE
Nirupama Prakash, Professor of Sociology, Jaypee University of Information
Technology, India
GENDER POLICIES IN EDUCATION
Hyun Joo Song, Professor, Gender Policies Education Division, Korean Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education, Korea
EDUCATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT
Kishali Pinto*, Deputy Director/Head-Civil & Political Rights Programme, Law and Society Trust, Sri Lanka
EDUCATION AND GENDER EQUALITY
Ziba Mir Hosseini, New York University School of Law and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK Representative from ANUE 6.00 pm 6.30 pm 6.45 pm DEBATE COFFEE BREAK CONFERENCE REPORT OF THE EAST-WEST DIALOGUE
- Manuel Montobbio, Ambassador of Spain in Albania and Rapporteur of the EastWest Dialogue 7.10 pm END OF THE EAST-WEST DIALOGUE
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