In the Aftermath of Terror: Women Leaders Discuss Peace, Justice, & Conflict Resolution in a Globalized World

Event Details

  • Time

    11:30am

  • Date

    24 Sep, 2001

  • Location

    • Radio Worldwide
    • 4343 Montgomery Ave Bethesda, MD

  • Contact

    WLP

Mahnaz Afkhami

Founder and President of the Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) and former Minister for State for Women's Affairs in Iran

Suheir Azzouni

Gender and development consultant, has written and lectured extensively on Palestinian women’s rights.

Charlotte Bunch

Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, has been a women’s human rights activist for over three decades

Jacqueline Pitanguy

Leading women’s rights activist and sociologist specializing in public health and gender issues, founder and director of Cidadania, Estudo, Pesquisa, Informação e Ação (CEPIA)

Aruna Rao

Coordinator of the Gender At Work Collaborative, a global initiative to
establish a knowledge and action network on institutional change for gender equality

WLP, in collaboration with Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) & Women's International New Gathering Service (WINGS), presents a live, interactive radio webcast discussion of International Women Leaders’ Reactions to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks in the US.

Several speakers will contribute across the four-day series (September 24-27), each morning at 11:30 am.

Tune in to: www.fire.or.cr

Following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 in the US, and in order to bring women's perspectives into the discussion of this horrendous event and its consequences, women leaders from across the world join in an electronic colloquium:

  • to express their sympathy for the victims
  • to discuss the effect of the tragedy on the future of world peace, inter-communal justice, and human rights
  • to assess various possible military, economic, and developmental responses governments may undertake and their impact on civil society
  • to explore ways of mobilizing individuals and NGOs to build global solidarity for the rule of law, tolerance, and peaceful resolution of conflicts across regions and faiths

In addition to WLP representatives, the following individuals contribute:

DEVAKI JAIN (India), a Founding Member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), is a development economist and women’s rights and democracy activist.

JOANNA KERR (Canada) is Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) and former Senior Researcher at The North-South Institute.

HUGUETTE LABELLE (Canada), former President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), is Chancellor of the University of Ottawa.

MARIA DE LOURDES PINTASILGO (Portugal), former Prime Minister of Portugal, has served as Minister of Social Affairs and Member of the European Parliament.

2001 Webcast Aftermath 1
2001 Webcast Aftermath 2

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