More than 50 researchers and development professionals from different countries of Latin America and social representatives and leaders will gather in Lima to discuss the current situation American rural women, in order to determine their problems and needs, their potential as key development actors.
El Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales - CEPES, CooperAcción, Manuela Ramos Movement, the International Land Coalition - ILC and the Association of Development Organizations Development - ALOP held the International Seminar on Rural Women. Change and persistence " on Thursday 02 and Friday December 3, 2010 in Lima, Peru.
debates will be conducted on the various processes in which rural women is immersed, for example: changes in access to and control over land, the employee in agro-export companies, the impact of extractive industries and participation in the conservation of biodiversity.
The seminar is also designed as a space to contribute to public policy analysis in the region and the formulation of new proposals for the full exercise of the rights of rural women. For the analysis of policies throughout Latin America, one of the most anticipated interventions is to Sonia Montano, chief of the Gender and Development Unit .
The closing ceremony will be conducted by Yuyachkani group with an action scene involving rural women in its various manifestations social and productive, offsetting the traditional and static image their role in society.
This seminar has joined other recent international initiatives have addressed the issue of rural women:
- regard to access and control over land (Bogotá, Colombia July 2010) http://americalatina.landcoalition.org/conversatorio-mujer-rural-2010 ;
- Your participation in enterprises and supply chains (San José, Costa Rica, October 2010) http://americalatina.landcoalition.org/ii-conversatorio-mujer-rural-2010
Held Hotel Double Tree El Pardo, Jr. Independencia 141 Miraflores, Lima
Contact: Star Coloma ecoloma@cepes.org.pe 4336610
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