Getting to Know You

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Getting to Know You

• Dear Participants
• As we did the previous time we are attempting to
  introduce all of you virtually till we meet
  again in magical Casablanca
• Heres looking at you
• Devaki Jain and Shubha Chacko

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Fatema Mernissi(Morocco)

• Research scholar University Institute for
  Scientific Research Mohammed V University of
  Rabat
• Research interest include culture, religion,
  politics, feminism and IT and digital media
• Books published in twenty-six countries,
• Won the Erasmus Prize 2004
• The Clash is not between civilizations but
  between Ulfa' and Consumerism 'Ulfa' is about
  altruistic love and community-building while
  consumerist ads brainwash us to vanish into
  individualist egoistic self-love.
• Shouldnt we start a campaign for a U.N.U.F
  ("United Nations Ulfa Fund) to insure altruistic
  love production

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Patricia McFadden (Swaziland)

• Chair Social Sciences Womens Research and
  Resource Center, Spelman College, Atlanta.
• Was editor of the Southern African Feminist
  Review
• Headed Southern African Regional Institute for
  Policy Studies ( SARIPS) Harare, Zimbabwe
• Latest Publication Reflecting on Gender Issues in
  Africa
• Women's politics has challenged the bifurcated
  nature of notions of justice and equality at
  every level of their societies,
• rupturing the public/private divide which still
• keeps millions of women the world over outside
  those civic resources and spaces where rights are
  embedded and secured

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Nomboniso Gasa (South Africa).

• Chair Gender Commission, South Africa
• Board Member Development Bank of Southern Africa
• formerly Member of the ANC Commission on the
  Emancipation of Women, Commission on Gender.
• Expertise gender policy, development processes
  political transition Ed Women in South African
  History
• We come because we share a particular vision, a
  changed society that is grounded on the
  experience of the lives of the people. We are
  saying that the way in which we measure growth
  and development has got to be linked directly to
  the ways in which our lives are changed.

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Yassine Fall (Senegal)

• UNIFEM Senior Economic Advisor to the UN
  Millennium Project.
• President African Womens Millennium Initiative
  on Poverty and Human Rights (AWOMI)
• Was Executive Director of the Association of
  African Women for Research and Development
• Publications Include Gender, Globalisation and
  Resistance
• Poverty reduction strategies are bound to fail
  if they do not adopt a womens economic rights
  and empowerment approach because poverty
  perpetuates unequal gender and power relations,
  and unequal gender and power relations aggravate
  poverty.

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Hope Chigudu(Zimbabwe)

• Social scientist Consultant range of
  international NGOs.
• Member, former chair of the Global Fund for Women
  and board member and Chair of Urgent Action
  Fund, Her skills and experience include
  evaluations, reviews, assessments, training,
  policy development. 
• Publication includes Composing a new song
  stories of empowerment from Africa
• To build a movement of those who want another
  kind of leadership, one that breaks the limits
  and starts to bring people who want to see
  possibilities together? People who want to be
  more adventurous, audacious, etc. People who are
  not afraid to talk about love, energy,
  connectedness what are seen as soft issues.

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Winnie ByanyimaUganda
Host

• Director UNDP Gender Team, Bureau for Development
  Policy,
• Elected three times to the Uganda legislature
• Founder of the Assemblys womens caucus.
• Was Director, Women, Gender and Development
  Directorate of the African Union Commission.
• First chair of the Forum for Women in Democracy
  (FOWODE),
• I work to undermine patriarchy and to introduce
  an alternative concept of power. As a politician,
  I gave and showed respect to my constituents.
  From a feminist standpoint, I valued the work and
  contribution of poor women.

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Zanele MbekiSouth Africa
Special Guest

• Deeply involved in the struggle against Apartheid
  
• Initiated the SA Women in Dialogue, which
  promotes dialogue for peace, equality and
  development .
• First Director and Chair of the Women's
  Development Bank Trust, and Trust Fund for the SA
  Women's Economic Empowerment
• Has worked for the UN High Commissioner for
  Refugees and with refugees in Africa and Asia.
• There is poverty, disease, war and all the rest
  but all of this needs to be underpinned by a new
  womens movement . One that is sending new
  messages now not merely about getting into these
  male spaces and just including women to be
  instrumental to development but to seek
  transformation

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Lourdes Arizpe(Mexico)

• Anthropology Professor at the National University
  of Mexico
• Was Assistant Director-General for Culture at
  UNESCO
• Member World Commission on Culture and
  Development
• Chair Scientific Committee of the World Culture
  Report.
• Received National Order of Academic Palms Award
  2008.
• Given the problems of globalization, the main
  challenge for this new century, is to prevent
  and remedy the deepening of inequality,
  especially along fault lines, new and old, that
  coincide with cultural diversity

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Marta Nuñez (Cuba)

• Prof Dept. Sociology Researcher at the Center for
  Studies of International Migrations University of
  Havana.
• Has been adviser for the Embassy of Cuba in
  Russia
• Visiting professor at various universities
• Served as a consultant for several agencies of
  the UN and the Association of Caribbean States
  and for several NGOs.
• The "sociological imagination" must apprehend and
  understand the forgotten things. That is, we must
  sociologically understand the small, the
  intimate, the affective, the personal, the
  banished.

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Itza Castaneda(Mexico)

• UNDP Mexico Country Office
• Expert on gender environment, specifically
  gender climate change
• Was Director of Gender Equity Secretariat of
  Environment and Natural Resources Mexico
• Latest Publication In Search of the Lost Gender
  Equity in Protected Areas
• .
• Frequently, the formal structures of ownership,
  mens access to and control of the natural
  resources, determine that these actions are based
  on preestablished models for the assignment of
  feminine and masculine tasks,
  supportingthusthe traditional roles that
  promote and strengthen gender inequality and
  inequity.

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Elizabeth Jelin (Argentina)

• Sociologist and researcher at CONICET (National
  Council for Science and Technology) University
  of Buenos Aires
• Academic director "Collective Memory and
  Repression Program
• Author of "State Repression and the Labors of
  Memory" (2003) and editor of "Memories of
  Repression."
• There will always be other stories, other
  memories, and alterative interpretations. These
  endure in spaces of resistance, in the private
  sphere, in the "catacombs" of history. There is
  an active political struggle not only over the
  meaning of what took place in the past but over
  the meaning of memory itself.

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Shahra Razavi(Iran)

• Research Co-ordinator at UNRISD.
• Has led UNRISDs research projects on gender and
  work on Gender Justice, Development and Rights
• Coordinated UNRISD report Gender Equality
  Striving for Justice in an Unequal World.
• On the editorial boards of Development in
  Practice and Global Social Policy.
• Neoliberal appropriations of rights discourses as
  the guarantors of free enterprise stand in
  opposition to the idea of social rights contained
  in the .second generation. of human rights and
  affirmed in the support accorded to the principle
  of the indivisibility of human rights.

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Solita Monsod (Philippines)

• Prof. School of Economics University of the
  Philippines.
• Minister (later Secretary) of Socio-Economic
  Planning, Govt. of the Philippines
• Was member of UNCDP South Commission,
• Advisory Board of the South Centre and UNDP.
  Board of Trustees of IFPRI.
• It is undisputed that the contribution of women
  to the economy, mostly in the form of unpaid
  labour, is well nigh invisible today, despite
  four World Conferences of Women starting in 1975,
  when the need to measure and value unpaid work
  was recognized

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Hiroko Hara (Japan)

• Prof. Josai International University Prof.
  Emeritus, Ochanomizu University
• Convener, Japan Womens Watch (JAWW)
• Steeromg Committee Member, Asia Pacific Womens
  Watch (APWW) .
• Received the Jane C. Goodale Award for
  anthropology.
• Womens/gender studies is absolutely necessary
  for understanding human beings as biological,
  social, and cultural entities, and they will
  contribute to the sustainability of humankind.

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Naoko Otobe (Japan)

• Over 23 years of professional analytical and
  operational experience in the UN system,
• Focus areas of development and poverty. Currently
  Senior Gender and Employment Specialist ILO
• Despite substantive progress made in promoting
  gender equality in the world of work during the
  last 50 years, proportionately, women are more
  affected by decent work deficits than men, and a
  large majority of the worlds poor are women. 
  Decent work can only be fully achieved when there
  is no longer gender-based discrimination and
  inequalities

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Renana Jhabvala(India)

• Coordinator Member, Executive Committee
  Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
• Chairperson SEWA Bharati Academy SEWA Bank
• Chairperson and founder member, WIEGO (Women in
  Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing)
• Publications "Informal Economy Centre Stage. New
  Structures of Employment
• It is she, the poor woman worker whose labour
  and enterprise which creates the wealth of the
  nation,
• and whose hard work leads to national growth.- we
  have to place her at the centre of our analysis

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Sakiko Fukuda Parr (Japan/USA)

• Currently Visiting Prof. at the New School's
  Graduate Program in International Affairs
• Director Annual Human Development Reports
  Commissioned by UNDP 1995 2004
• Latest Publication The Gene Revolution GM Crops
  and Unequal Development. Earthscan, London 2006
• The aim of multicultural policies is not to
  conserve tradition, but to protect cultural
  liberty and expand peoples choicesin the ways
  they live and identify themselvesand not to
  penalize them for these choices.

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Nafis SadikPakistan
Special Guest

• The Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General
  also as Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia,
• Was the head of the UNFPA
• First woman to head one of the UNs major
  voluntarily-funded programmes.
• Secretary-General of the ICPD -Cairo 1994
• This use of tradition, culture and values has
  dominated and denied groups of people, especially
  girls and women, their basic rights. All cultures
  change, all traditions, evolve, and all values
  also change. Any value or tradition or culture
  worth its name cannot be against a group of
  people. If it is, it has been manufactured in
  order to subjugate and we then have to eliminate
  that.

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Devaki Jain(India)

• Founder Director of Institute of Social Studies
  Trust.
• Founder of DAWN,
• Lecturer, later senior fellow Delhi School of
  Economics
• Awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest
  civilian award from Government of India .
• Poverty eradication is a dynamic and purposeful
  engine of growth. The oiling of this engine will
  fire the economy, in a much more broad based
  manner. The review of the past seems to suggest
  some dramatic reversal of the current theories of
  where the engines of growth if the interest is
  in poverty eradication

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Jael Silliman (India)

• Program Officer Womens Rights Gender Equity in
  the Human Rights Unit, Ford Foundation.
• Was Associate Prof. Womens Studies Dept.
  University of Iowa.
• Recent Publication Undivided Rights Women of
  Color Organize for Reproductive Justice
• We need a feminist transformatory politics
  allying with these forces for change so that a
  new world view can be born, with a unity in a
  quest for a world of gender equality, of human
  dignity, environmental stewardship, inclusive and
  non-violent politics , a new way of living and
  being in this world for men, women and all
  others with whom we share this planet with

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Kavita Ramdas(India/USA)

• President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women,
  which seeks to advance feminist philanthropy .
• Has won numerous awards
• Advisory Panel to the Bill Melinda Gates
  Foundation
• Princeton University Board of Trustees
• The fundamental quest for equality, dignity and
  justice are shared by movements of women in many
  different parts of the world goes beyond merely
  seeking to make women equal with men. It dares to
  ask the fundamental question equal to what?

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Shubha ChackoIndia

• RA to Devaki Jain
• Masters in Social Work awarded a national merit
  scholarship
• Social activist working on issues of development,
  gender and sexuality committed peace worker.
• Trained documentationist
• We seek to counter oppressive transnational
  movements, both from the "West" as well as the
  "Non-West," with alternative movements that
  counter war and the continued production of
  global inequalities

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Nilufer Cagatay Turkey/USA

• Ass. Prof. Economics University of Utah.
• Researcher Levy Economics Institute Bard
  College.
• Cofounded International Working Group on Gender,
  Macroeconomics International Economics GEMIWG
• Economic Advisor at UNDP's Social Development and
  Poverty Elimination Division
• The global justice movement, which advocates
  economic policies for poverty reduction, human
  development, environmental sustainability and
  democratization, along with gender justice, is
  more visible than ever before

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Diane Elson (United Kingdom)

• Prof. Dept. of Sociology at Essex
• Codirector Levy Institutes Program Gender
  Equality Economics
• Was Chair Development Studies at Manchester
  University,
• Has been with UNIFEM, New York. UNIFEM Report on
  Progress of the World's Women
• May be women can create an alternative vision of
  modernity which avoids false polarities between
  local and global, paid and unpaid, market and
  non-market, sustainability and growth
   individual and collective and between the moral
  and the economic and instead rests on innovative
  syntheses

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Lourdes BeneriaSpain/USA

• Prof. Gender and Economic Development Cornell
  University
• Associate Faculty member at the IIEDG
  (Inter-University Institute for the Study of
  Women and Gender), Barcelona, Spain
• Editor of Global Tensions Challenges and
  Opportunities in the Global Economy (2005), with
  Savitri Bisnath.
• Member many International Advisory Committees
• UNIFEM report on World's Women's Progress/2000,
  ILO Global Programme on Socioeconomic Security
• UNDP's Directory of Appointed Experts on Poverty
  in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Pub Gender, Development and Globalization,
  Economics as if all People Mattered, Routledge
  2003
• The environmental movement has succeeded in
  point at the responsibility of private firms for
  environmental degradation, a similar effort is
  now needed to address precarious employment and
  distributive mechanisms

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Sylvia Borren(Netherlands)

• Former Executive Director of the Netherlands
  Organization for International Development
  Co-operation, NOVIB .
• Co-Chair of Global Call to Action Against Poverty
  
• Involved in education and health care services at
  the local level, with the lesbian and womens
  movement
• More and more women having the courage to take
  on more power and responsibility, and to work
  from the premise that we can indeed successfully
  change the world, not only for women but also for
  everyone.