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<DIV>Thank you, Marcela. I'm sorry we didn't get to the AWID Forum agenda
item. I did forward it to next month's agenda. Ana and I discussed
this many months ago. As a matter of fact, it was right before the deadline,
which came early this year---the 15th of January, something like this. We
were both really, really busy and were not able to submit a proposal for a
meeting time and space. We therefore let it go. I think we have to look
hard at who will be there, who can organize an event within the AWID Forum, if
at all. I know it is going to be quite an event (Í've been to the last
2). They also have selected all the requests for events. They had
over 1000 proposals for much fewer number of events. So, if there's a
creative way to do this, I welcome it. People can think about it and we
can discuss online and/or at the next meeting.</DIV>
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<DIV>Warm regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Rosa</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/30/2008 4:50:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Marcela.Ballara@fao.org writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dear
all <BR>From November 14-17, 2008, at the Cape Town International
Convention Center,<BR>up to 1,500 women's rights leaders and activists from
around the world will<BR>converge on Cape Town, South Africa at the 11th AWID
International Forum to<BR>discuss the power of movements.<BR><BR>Goals and
Objectives<BR>The Forum creates a space for different actors and activists,
from all around<BR>the world to come together to discuss a broad range of
fundamental subjects<BR>and challenges that affect the work of women's
advocates, regardless of what<BR>issues or regions they focus on. <BR>The
forum aims to<BR>- Create an effective space for women's movements around the
world to<BR>strategize, be self-critical, renew, re-energize and develop
innovative<BR>solutions and ways forward <BR>- To make evident inter-linkages
between sectors and issues in building<BR>strategic alliances and to put new
issues on the development and women's<BR>rights agenda <BR>- To develop new,
more holistic and sustainable solutions to advance women's<BR>rights at all
levels <BR>- To build practical skills through hands-on workshops
<BR><BR><BR>As it was not posible to discuss the FTF interet in
participating in this<BR>important Forum, I suggest that all of you read more
about the scope and<BR>content of the Forum at
http://www.awid.org/forum08/index.html and discuss<BR>the issue during
our next tele conference <BR><BR>best regards<BR>Marcela
<BR><BR><BR><BR>Marcela Ballara <BR>
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