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Prize
for women’s creativity in rural life |
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We are in the process of selecting Laureates among many nominations received and prizewinners will be announced early July. An award ceremony will be organized in Geneva on 15 October 2005 in synergy with World Rural Women’s Day. Three or four prizewinners are invited to Geneva to present their projects. For more information on past laureates, visit http://www.woman.ch/women/1-laureates.asp “This
valuable award encourages me to work harder for the development
and uplifting of thousands of rural women. I promised myself that
I commit my life to always work for rural women’s empowerment.” |
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China Forum with WWSF Laureates Last December, WWSF invited 20 Chinese laureates (out of 32 Chinese winners of the Prize for women’s creativity in rural life) to a first WWSF China Forum for sharing their experiences, changes, achievements and lessons learned from success and failures before and after winning the Prize. The forum was a success and everyone gained great support and energy from all participants. During the workshop Wu Qing, WWSF President, lectured on citizenship and Xie Lihua, Secretary-General of the Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women, on “tapping on your potential.” A book will be published to share the outcome of the WWSF China Forum for the empowerment of more Chinese rural women. |
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World
Rural Women’s Day – 15 October Launched
at the Beijing Women’s Conference by several NGOs in 1995,
WWSF took the lead in creating a global campaign for the promotion
of the World Day including an annual campaign poster and Open Letter
to Rural Women of the world. Placing rural women’s role center
stage and sensitizing governments and the world community to the
importance of their grassroots initiatives in eradicating poverty.
Every year, WWSF chooses a specific theme focusing on their basic
human rights. Hundreds of NGOs in many countries mark the World
Day with local activities and events and several governments have
declared the Day a National Day (USA, Philippines, Mali). Several
national, regional and international networks have been established
to group relevant actors for the purpose of increased advocacy and
calls to action. As a result of the annual campaigns, many new initiatives
have emerged at the grassroots, ranging from local and national
coalitions to mark the World Day, setting up panel discussions with
Ministers of Agriculture, creating a World Rural Women’s Day
Foundation in Nigeria, a Rural Women’s Network in Pakistan
and in Rwanda, to name a few. For more information, visit |
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World
Day and training workshops for Circles of Compassion Introducing
a new dialogue process, adopted from the indigenous, non-hierarchical
systems for community structures, this World Day (in partnership
with the Millennium Circle) has as its purpose to disseminate circle
guidelines for the creation of Circles of compassion to help implement
the UN Development Agenda. The problem of poverty is among the greatest
failures of the global community. Around one billion people live
below the subsistence line; half of the world’s population
does not have access to safe drinking water; three-quarters of the
developing world have no adequate sanitary facilities; at least
200 million people lack even basic shelter. WWSF
offers regular circle training workshops in Geneva and other European
cities. Hundreds of NGOs in the South are already using the circle
methodology for community building. * In September 2000, world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit agreed on the Millennium Development Goals to combat poverty, hunger, environmental degradation, disease, illiteracy and discrimination against women. One of the MDGs is to halve the proportion of the poor and hungry by 2015. For more information, consult the UN web page on the MDGs http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals |
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