Global Center Activities at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

WOMEN at the Intersection of RACISM and Other OPPRESSIONS:
a HUMAN RIGHTS Hearing

August 31, 2001, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

World Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa

Program

Ubuhle Besizwe (Beauty of the Nation)

Zulu Dance Group

Welcome: Charlotte Bunch
Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL)

Opening: Joyce Piliso Seroke
Chair, Commission on Gender Equality, South Africa

Intersections: a Slide Presentation: Abena P.A. Busia
Member of the Advisory Board, CWGL

Testimonies

BODILY INTEGRITY AND SEXUALITY

Moderator: Rita Raj, Hearing Coordinator, CWGL

Nobantu Prudence Mabele South Africa: HIV / AIDS Challenges and Sexual Orientation

Indira Ghale Nepal: Dalit Traffaicking

Vera Kurtic and Slavica Vasic Roma:Racial and Sexual Discrimination

Tonya McClary United States: Criminal Justice System

Commentator: Betty Murungi

FIDA, Kenya and Women's Caucus for Gender Justice

MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION

Moderator: elmira Nazombe, Program Director, CWGL

Solange Pierre Dominican Republic: Discrimination against Haitian Migrant Workers & Their Descendants

Meera Samanther and Rozana Isa Malaysia: Foreign Domestic Workers - the Obstacles in Malaysia

Behshid Najafi Germany: Women Migrants Organizing for Their Rights in Germany

Nahar Alam United States: Experiences of Immigrant Women Workers and Asylum Seekers

Commentator: Ruth Manorama
Women's Voice, India

Interlude: Ubuhle Besizwe, Zulu Dance Group

WAR, CONFLICT AND GENOCIDE

Moderator: Charlotte Bunch

Manar Farajand Vivian Stromberg Palestine: Women's Lives in Refugee Camps

Doris Mpoumou Republic of Congo: War/Conflict, Sexual Violence and Ethnicity

Maria Toj Guatemala: Genocide and Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples

Ita F. Nadia Indonesia: Mass Rape of Indonesian Chinese Women

Commentaries

Betty Murungi
Ruth Manorama

Center for Women's Global Leadership
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey