This is part 2 of a guest post from Michele Phillips, her reflections on the InFocus session, Silence, Agency, and Gender in an Increasingly Violent World. In this part, she shares a very personal story of her own experience with sexual harrassment and speaking out. -------- Read more...
This is part 1 of a guest post from Michele Phillips, her reflections on the InFocus session, Silence, Agency, and Gender in an Increasingly Violent World Read more...
7 July 2011, OTTAWA – On the heels of the release of UN Women’s flagship report, “Progress of the World’s Women: In Pursuit of Justice”, 2000 women from more than 90 countries will use the final day of the largest gathering of women from around the world in Canadian history to name legal reforms and “2.0” strategies as refreshed approaches to advancing women’s equality.
Topics for discussion under the theme of this final day of the global feminist congress – “Breaking Ground” – cover new technology, legal reform, activism 2.0, and the empowerment of girls and families. Read more...
Guest blogger Manuela Popovici is a teacher, writer at ontheroadtonow.blogspot.com, and editor - www.manuelapopovici.com. If you see her around WW2011 taking pictures with her little camera, stop and say Hi!
This is guest blogger Sandyha Singh's response to “Breaking Cycles through Education: Stories from Determined Refugee Women”. The presenters were: Lynne LeBlanc (Moderator), World University Service of Canada, Canada; Vicky Samuel, Canada; Fatima Bahir, Citizenship and Immigration Canada; Sarah Angus, Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
6 July 2011, OTTAWA – Intensive programming at Women’s Worlds 2011 today will cover such timely issues as cultural and sexual identities, political spaces, barriers to access, and empowerment of girls and women. The central theme of this third day of the global feminist congress is “Breaking Barriers”.
“So many lines continue to divide us, which is ironic considering how globalization is intended to bring us closer together,” says Caroline Andrew, co-chair of the congress, the 11th in a series which began in 1981. Read more...
5 July 2011, OTTAWA – Intensive programming at Women’s Worlds 2011 today will cover such timely issues as women in politics, sex trafficking, pornography, and equal pay for equal work. The central theme of this second day of the global feminist congress is “Breaking Ceilings”. Read more...
This is a guest post by blogger Sandhya Singh, sharing her reflections on the session "Globalization, Migration, Gender and Women’s Agency in the Canadian State". Read more...
4 July 2011, OTTAWA – Participants of the Women's Worlds 2011 congress will march in solidarity with Native Women's Association of Canada and local activists to keep attention on the alarmingly high rates of violence against Aboriginal women and girls in Canada and the lack of effective response to the crisis. Women’s Worlds 2011 has over 1900 delegates from over 90 countries in Ottawa from July 3 to July 7. Read more...
4 July 2011, OTTAWA – To kick off four days of thematic and cultural programming, Women’s Worlds 2011 frames day one around the central theme “Breaking Cycles”.
“We know that as globalization becomes more and more entrenched as the new world order, women around the world are mounting impressive opposition to colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, and inequality,” says Caroline Andrew, co-chair of the global feminist congress, the 11th in a series which began in 1981. Read more...
¡Apenas podemos creer que el congreso ya ha empezado! El entusiasmo se va cada vez más creciendo y mujeres de toda parte del mundo están llegando a Ottawa.
Mundos de Mujeres 2011 empieza esta noche oficialmente con una ceremonia de apertura muy especial que celebra la cultura indígena. Presentado por militante y realizadora de cine Tina Keeper y realizadora de cine Alanis Obomsawin, el evento se realizará en el Museo Canadiense de la Civilización, un medio ambiente sensacional para el lanzamiento del congreso. Read more...
It's hard to believe the Congress is finally here! Excitement is building as women from all over the world have been arriving here in Ottawa. We are thankful for the beautiful weather too! Read more...
2 July 2011, OTTAWA - Aboriginal and Indigenous women make up a substantial part of the programming and presenter line-up at Women's Worlds 2011, an international women's congress taking place in Ottawa-Gatineau from 3-7 July.
WW 2011 is an international and interdisciplinary congress that will explore how issues like equality, human rights, economics, labour, education, environment, and development relate to women. Read more...
The following is a guest post by Deanna Bralten.
Manuela Popovici is a teacher, writer at 
This is guest blogger Sandyha Singh's response to “Breaking Cycles through Education: Stories from Determined Refugee Women”. The presenters were: Lynne LeBlanc (Moderator), World University Service of Canada, Canada; Vicky Samuel, Canada; Fatima Bahir, Citizenship and Immigration Canada; Sarah Angus, Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
