Date & Location

Event

Contact

APR 25-27, 2002
Chicago, USA

Women's Funding Network: Creating Global Community, Strengthening Human Security. Funders supporting women and girls will discuss and provide workshops on creating global human security.

Web site:
www.wfnet.org

JUL 3-7, 2002 Townsville, North Queensland, Australia

Conference on Poverty, Violence and Women's Rights: Setting a Global Agenda will focus on improving the status of women by fighting poverty and violence, demanding justice and women's human rights globally.

Web site:
www.tiwc.asn.au

JUL 21-26, 2002
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

The 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women (Gendered Words: Gains and Challenges) meets every three years. This year's conferences aims to promote cross-cultural discussion among academics, professionals and women concerned with women and gender issues.

Web site:
www.makerere.ac.ug

AUG 12-16, 2002
York University, Toronto, Canada

9th International Women and Health Meeting provides an international grassroots forum for women's groups working in the areas of sexual and reproductive rights, family and state violence against women and environmental health.

Web site:
www.iwhm-rifs.org

OCT 6-10, 2002
Geneva, Switzerland

World Conference of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders is the first global gathering of women leaders from all the major faiths and all regions of the world. Women working in a variety of capacities in religious life will convene to explore how they can play a more active role in supporting the peacemaking and peacebuilding efforts of the United Nations.

E-mail: WomensSummit@
ruderfinn.com

Website: www.monash.edu.au/