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For further information, please call (514) 744-7500 ext. 7053 or 7054 |
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March 10 |
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10:00-11:15 am Auditorium (A103) "Women and Violence Panel” Diane Sasson, Executive Director of Auberge Shalom Sarah Elgazzar, Amal Crisis Shelter Response Team Member Leena Sarkar, Psychotherapist at Montreal Sexual Assault Centre |
11:30 am - 12:45 pm The Raging Grannies
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11:30 am - 12:45 pm “Women and Sexual Diversity Panel” |
11:30 am - 6:00 pm Film Festival 11:30 am - 1:00 pm 1:00 - 2:30 pm 2:30 - 4:30 pm 4:45 - 6:00 pm |
12:00 - 1:15 pm (UB) Kalmunity Celebrate International Women’s
Week with Musical Collective
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm Carrefour Health Resources and Counselling Centre Present: A Focus on Women’s Health Counsellors, Nurses and Nutritionist present |
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1:00 - 2:30 pm 2:30 - 3:45 pm |
1:00 - 2:00 pm (N516) 4:00 - 5:00 pm (N573) “Writing to Make a Difference or Just Be Different?” Workshop led by Lori Weber |
1:30 - 2:45 pm Moderator: Tricia Bell |
11:30 am - 5:30 pm 11:30 am - 12:45 pm 1:00 - 2:45 pm 3:00 - 5:30 pm |
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4:30 pm Vernissage Room B305 Judith Lermer Crawley’s photographic exhibition: “The Women’s Daybook Series” |
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3:30 - 4:45 pm Auditorium (A103) “Add Women and Stir: Women's Human Rights Internationally" Presentation by Ariane Brunet of Rights and Democracy  |
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Ariane Brunet is the co-founder of the Urgent Action Fund (UAF) (1997). As the only international women's fund in the world designed to respond on short notice, UAF collaborates with women activists in three primary contexts: peace building in situations of armed conflict, escalating violence, or politically volatile environments; potentially precedent-setting legal and legislative actions; and protection of women human rights defenders. UAF has its office in Boulder Co. and a sister organization Urgent Action Fund-Africa in Nairobi. (http://www.urgentactionfund.org) Ariane Brunet works on women's human rights in armed conflict situations since 1996, having created The Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations The main focus of the Coalition's work is to promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa, in order to create precedents that recognise violence against women in conflict situations and help find ways to obtain justice for women survivors of sexual violence. (http://www.womensrightscoalition.org/) In the summer of 2002, Rights & Democracy Women's rights programme established the Women's Rights in Afghanistan Fund, with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Grants from this Fund are made to grassroots women's organizations throughout Afghanistan, with the aim of supporting women's human rights and peacebuilding efforts. This is a small, but crucial, effort to counter the effects of decades of denial of human rights to women and to bolster Afghanistan's chances for a lasting peace. R&D opened an office in Kabul in 2001. (http://www.wraf.ca) Ms. Brunet is the Coordinator of the Women's Rights Programme at Rights & Democracy since 1992. Ms. Brunet has been active in ensuring that Canada took the lead on a resolution at the UN Human Rights Commission to appoint a Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences. In 1999 the Women's Rights Programmes published in collaboration with Amnesty International a Methodology for Gender-Sensitive Research. With this methodology R&D three manuals on documenting women's human rights violations. The first manual is on documenting sexual violence by States Agents. The second manual of the series on Documenting Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Situations. In Spring of 2006 the last manual will be launched on data documentation of violations perpetrated by Non State Actors In 2004 she published "Where are the Girls?" on the situation of girl soldiers in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique. At R&D since 1990, Ms. Brunet was responsible for the Canada Programme and the Middle East and North African Programme, in addition to representing the Centre at the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Ms. Brunet is an activist who was the Co-Director of the Third International Feminist Bookfair held in Montreal in 1988 and opened l'Essentielle, the first trilingual feminist bookshop also in Montreal in 1986. She presently seat on the international advisory board of the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court. |
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Love,
Women, and Flowers Auditorium - Tuesday, March 7th 11:30 am - 1:00 pm |
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Ladies
Room Filmed entirely inside a ladies washroom in a public park in Tehran, this absorbing documentary shatters Western preconceptions of Iranian women. Populated by addicts, prostitutes, runaway girls and others who simply enjoy the camaraderie and atmosphere, the ladies room becomes one of the few places where women feel comfortable enough to smoke cigarettes, discuss taboo subjects and remove their veils. (2003, dir. Mahnaz Afzali) Auditorium - Tuesday, March 7th 1 - 2:30 pm |
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Rosa Parks Story This film traces the life and history of one of the Civil Rights Movement's most indelible social activists, Rosa Parks. The drama explores her experiences in childhood and adult life that helped shape her philosophy of "quiet strength" and resulted in her historic moment of peaceful defiance on a segregated bus in 1955. The drama was filmed in Montgomery, Alabama, the city of Rosa Park's courageous action that inspired the Montgomery bus boycott and gave birth to the modern Civil Rights Movement. (2002, dir. Julie Dash) Auditorium - Tuesday, March 7 2:30-4:30 |
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Famine Within The Famine Within focuses on the debilitating and unattainable ideal of a woman, and its devastating effects on the health and morale of women, particularly, young North American women. The film suggests that consumerism (fuelled by the gazillion-dollar diet, fitness and fashion industries) and mass media are largely responsible for creating and spreading this image. In today's body-centered, youth-oriented culture, this image becomes a dangerous catalyst for the ever-increasing number of young North American women developing harmful eating disorders. In their obsessive pursuit of the perfect body, many women become anorexic, bulimic or, ironically, diet their way to obesity. (1990, dir. Katherine Gilday) Auditorium - Tuesday, March 7th 4:45 - 6:00 pm |
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Hopscotch and Little Girls Hopscotch embodies the spirit of childhood, and little girls all over the world play it. But all too often, particularly in non-industrialized nations, girls' childhoods are stolen, their dreams for the future shattered. Often denied access to education, girls are far more likely to assume household responsibilities, be conscripted into the workforce, be pushed into early marriages, and endure sexual abuse and, in some cases, mutilation. This provocative program features girls from around the globe who share their stories of abuse and neglect, and also their hopes and dreams, in a world that too often considers them second-class citizens. (1999, dir. Marquise Lepage) Auditorium - Thursday, March 9th 11:30 am - 1:00 pm |
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Slaves Sex Slaves was created provides a first-hand account of international human trafficking by going to the countries such as Moldova and Ukraine where girls are recruited, then following the trail to the various countries and locales where they end up. Interviews with traffickers, experts, police vice-squads and former sex slaves along with undercover footage provide a glimpse into the frightening reality and scope of the problem. (2005, dir. Ric Esther Bienstock, pictured left) Auditorium - Thursday, March 9th 1:00 - 2:45 pm |
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Jawed Angels Iron Jawed Angels recounts for a contemporary audience a key chapter in U.S. history: in this case, the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women's-rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920. (2004 Katja von Garnier) Auditorium - Thursday, March 9th 3:00 - 5:30 pm |
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Born into Brothels Auditorium - Monday, March 6 1 - 2:30 pm |
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Under
One Sky: Arab Women in North America Talk About the Hijab Auditorium - Monday, March 6, 2:30 - 4:00 pm |
