Toronto, Canada. Closing date: September 25, 2011. Description: The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international feminist membership organization that works to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women's rights advocates, organizations and movements internationally. Every three years, AWID organizes an International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development. The largest recurring event of its kind, the AWID Forum brings together close to … [Read more...]
JOBS~The Assoc. for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) Toronto, Can.
ELIZABETH MAY ~ Female Party Leader Excluded From Debates
Where is our basic Freedom of Speech, why the exclusion? Is there a hidden agenda here? Just yesterda, I read that Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader Canada was excluded from the televised debates that will take place. May is understandably in shock. "News that I will not be allowed to participate in the debates. In shock at the moment. I will be in those debates," May wrote on Twitter. Marco Dubé, a spokesman for the broadcast consortium that hosts the debates, confirmed the … [Read more...]