Women for a Better World
Saturday 27 March
MORNING
9:00 OPENING CEREMONY
OPENING SESSION
Participants:
Her Majesty the Queen
Rita Barberá
Mayoress of Valencia
Asha Rose Migiro
UN Deputy Secretary-General
Tarja Halonen
President of Finland
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President of Liberia
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidency
Host: Francine Gálvez
9:30 Performance, girls and boys Band
9:45 Family Photo
9:50 Coffee Break
Video - Message
10:00 - 10:15 Address by Graça Machel
President of the Foundation for Community Development
10:15 - 10:30 Short: “Women living in the mist” (Directed by Chus Gutiérrez - shot in Namibia)
10:30 - 11:30 Dialogues on Peace: Women’s Human Rights and Citizenship (Main Round Table Addresses, each 5-7 minutes)
• Navi Pillay - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
• Bibiana Aído - Spanish Minister of Equality
• Verónica Nataliel Macamo Ndlovo – President of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique
• Isatou Njie- Saidy - Vice-president of the Gambia
Moderator: Amparo Tórtola. Journalist
11:05 - 11:30 Brief addresses
(2-3 minutes each)
o Zonke Majodina - Vice-President of the South African Human Rights Commission
o Fatana Ishaq Gailani - Winner of the Prince of Asturias Prize for Cooperation – Afghanistan
o Ana María Pastor - Second Deputy-Speaker of the Spanish Congress of Deputies
o Margot Wallström - United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
o María Munir Yusuf - Executive Director of the NGOD Tsotawi Tekat Tekelaky Mahiber (TTTM), Ethiopia
o Mary Robinson - Former President of Ireland
o Carmen Alborch – Senator, Spain
o Gertrude Mongella – Formal President of the Pan-African Parliament
Close by the moderator
11:30 - 11:45 Address by Wangari Maathai
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and President of the Green Belt Movement
11:45 - 12:00 Short: “Radio Batuma” (Directed by Inés París - shot in Mali)
12:00 - 13:00 Dialogues on new economic challenges: economic growth in Africa. (Main Round Table Addresses, each 5-7 minutes)
• Rosa García – Vice-President for Western Europe for Consumption and On-line, Microsoft
• Winnie Imanyara – Director of Change and Strategy, Housing Finance, Kenya
• Adrienne Diop - ECOWAS Human Development and Gender Commissioner
• Ndèye Khady Diop - Minister of State, the Family, Food Security, Women’s Entrepreneurship, Micro- Finance and Children, Senegal
Moderator: Mayte Pascual. Journalist
12:30 -13:00 Brief addresses
(2-3 minutes each)
o Beatriz Corredor – Minister of Housing, Spain
o Nouara Djafer – Minister of the Family and the Feminine Condition, Algeria
o Benita Ferrero-Waldner - Former European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy
o Rebeca Grynspan - Associate Administrator of UNDP
o Petra Mateos – President of Hispasat, Spain
o Litha Musyimi Ogana – African Union Director of Gender, Women and Development
o Carol Ndaguba - Director-General of the Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP), Nigeria
o Fátima de Barros Camará - President, AMAE (Women’s Economic Activity Association), Guinea-Bissau
o Cristina Narbona - Ambassador, Permanent Spanish Representative to the OECD
Close by the moderator
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
Video - Message
15:00 - 15:15 Short: “Sunrise in Misrak” (Directed by Patricia Ferreira - shot in Ethiopia)
15:15 - 16:15 Dialogues on Women’s Health: sexual and reproductive rights. (Main Round Table Addresses, each 5-7 minutes)
• Eunice Brookman - Vice-President for Africa of IPAS - Ghana
• Inés Alberdi - Executive Director, UNIFEM
• Olayinka Koso-Thomas - Winner of the Prince of Asturias Prize for Cooperation, Sierra Leone
• Trinidad Jiménez - Minister of Health, Spain
Moderator: Pepa Fernández. Journalist
15:45 -16:15 Brief addresses
(2-3 minutes each)
o Eulalia Envo Bela - Minister of Social Affairs and Promotion of Women, Equatorial Guinea
o Blandine Sawadogo - President of the Commission on Gender, Family and Youth in the National Assembly of Burkina Faso
o Soraya Rodríguez - Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Spain
o Marie-Thérèse Abena Ondoa née Obama - Minister of Women's Empowerment and the Family, Cameroon
o Petrina Haingura - Deputy Minister of Health, Namibia
o Sogona Diarra - National Coordinator for combating female genital mutilation, Mali
o Soledad Cazorla - Gender Violence Prosecutor, Spain
o Carmen Calvo - Chair of the Equality Commission in the Spanish Congress of Deputies
Close by the moderator
16:15 -16:45 Transfer to Hotel
20:00 Dinner
Cultural space
(Fireworks castle)
Important note, time-change:
European Union countries switch to Summer Time on 28 March. At 2:00 a.m., clocks are moved forward to 3:00 a.m.
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