Wrap Up from Women’s Peace Conf.
So here it is, miscellaneous quotes, resources and pictures from last week’s conference, in no particular order:
There were many excellent and inspiring organizations represented at the conference. Here are links to some of those sites:
The 13 Indigenous Grandmothers are traveling the world sharing native wisdom and “cultivating their unified prayer for peace”.
The Tibetan Women’s Association–their motto is, “The hand that rocks the cradle can move the world.”
Women’s World Summit Foundation–Elly Pradervand, the Founder and Executive Director of WWSF introduced a wonderful idea for how to broach the concept of responsible journalism to the the media. She suggests telling them that what is needed is to move away from the 3 S’s (sex, scandal and sport) to the the 3 C’s (courage, creativity and compassion).
Engender is a South African based organization working on “research and capacity-building in genders and sexualities, justice and peace.”
This is a photo of Bernadette Muthien, Executive Director of Engender with presenter China Galland who has done so much work to reclaim the history of the Goddesses and the Black Madonna.
Grandmothers for Peace International is working to address issues of violence and injustice, and is currently focusing on the war in Iraq and counter-recruitment efforts.
34 Million Friends of UNFPA is the wonderful organization that has been working to provide the funds that the Bush Administration cut from UNFPA one dollar at a time.
The Nobel Women’s Initiative is exactly what it sounds like.
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Looks like a successful conference! 34 Million Friends of UNFPA is a project of Americans for UNFPA, which recently launched the “One Woman Can” campaign, to protect the health and dignity of women. Join us by signing our petition to President Bush demanding that he release the funds for UNFPA by going here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2460/t/1565/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=648. Thanks!