PWR | SHOWCASING | Women of PoWR for the Assembly & Program Initiative in Toronto | 1-7 November 2018

[Edited extract from public address]

Witness rallying cry of women and girls with the following impressive speakers joining our Women's Dignity Assembly and Program Initiative: The Dignity of Women Across the World's Wisdom Traditions and Society. 

Speakers at this PoWR-ful assembly and initiative will inspire and continue to create changes we are working diligently to embed globally, enhancing lives for women and girls each step of the way.

• Bani Dugal is the Principal Representative of the Bahá’í International Community to the UN. She is serving as the Vice Chair of the Steering Committee of the NGO Working Group on the Security Council. Addressing equality between women and men in the Women's Assembly and Program Initiative. See more
• Armene Modi founded Ashta No Kai (ANK), a non-profit organization to educate and empower rural women and girls in 10 villages in Pune District, India in 1998. Sharing her expertise on empowering women and the transformative power it has on their lives as part of the Women's Assembly and Program Initiative. See more
• Dr. Azza Karam, Ph.D. serves as a Senior Advisor on Culture and Social Development at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Unpacking the role of women in global leadership as part of the Women's Assembly and Program Initiative. See more
• Karma Lekshe Tsomo is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of San Diego, where she teaches World Religions, Buddhist Thought and Culture, Religious Identity in the Global Community, and other subjects. Highlighting compassion and loving kindness as a framework for transforming gender injustice in the session: Buddhism, Compassion, and Gender Justice as part of the Women's Assembly and Program Initiative. See more
• Hugh Locke Canadian born, Hugh Locke is co-founder and President of the Haitian-based Smallholder Farmers Alliance. He currently advises and serves on the boards of a number of Haitian NGO's. Sharing his expertise and highlight the role of women in development as part of the Women's Assembly and Program Initiative. See more
• Dr. Carol P. Christ is a historian, theologian, activist, and founder of the study of Women and Religion in the academy, she is widely recognized for her keynote address “Why Women Need the Goddess” which helped to launch the Goddess movement. Finding the spirit within the body and nature while leading Goddess Pilgrimages to Crete and will deepen Jimmy Carter’s insight about the role of religions in sanctifying the abuse of women and girls in a dynamic talk on the stage of the Parliament's second Women's Assembly, addressing the Dignity of Women Across the World's Wisdom Traditions. See more
• Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is the founder and Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) an Afghan women-led NGO founded in 1995 and is well known for her work for the rights of children, women, and education. Highlightinf the role of women and women's rights in Afghanistan as part of the Women's Assembly and Program Initiative. See more

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