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Voices
for Women's Human Rights The Global Fund has introduced a new speaker series, "Voices for Women's Human Rights." The series will feature women activists and scholars from around the world who will share their perspectives at events organized in various US cities. From indigenous women's rights in Mexico to women's political participation in Palestine, we will be hearing from speakers who represent a broad range of women's human rights issues on every continent. We proudly launched the series in mid-November when the chair of the Global Fund Board of Directors, Hope Chigudu, founder of the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Center and Network, introduced Amina Mama from South Africa and Lin Chew, from Hong Kong, two newly appointed Board members. Amina Mama, Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Cape Town, discussed the ineffectiveness of development aid to African countries, and the need to build strategic capacity among women's organizations. Lin Chew, Director of the Human Rights School Educational Project of the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong, discussed the growth of the tourist industry and its effect on sex trafficking of women and girls. In late November, Biljana Kasic, founder and program coordinator of the Center for Women's Studies in Zagreb, Croatia, and Nuna Zvizdic of Zene Zenama (Women to Women) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, discussed how the war in the Balkans affected the feminist movement. (Click here to read article by Nuna Zvizdic.) |
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