Halifax

PEACE Symposium 2012

A Unitarian Universalist Initiative for Peace

2:30pm
- 8:00pm
Sunday October 21 2012

 

Program – with Emcee, Stephanie Domet

Presentations

• Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women
• Hanny Cueva Beteta, Policy Advisor of the Peace and Security Section, UN Women
• Linda Jones, Manager, International Centre for Women’s Leadership, Coady International Institute

Children’s Art Project

Cash Bar and Dinner

Evening Entertainment Rosalee Peppard

Cost Full event $75 Afternoon Program $40 / Students: Full event $35 Afternoon Program $0

Limited Number of Sponsored Tickets Available
Deadline to register is October 17, 2012

 

Presenters

Ms. Michelle Bachelet is the first Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, which was established on 2 July 2010 by the United Nations General Assembly. UN Women works with the entire UN system, governments, civil society and the private sector to advance women’s empowerment and gender equality worldwide.

Ms. Bachelet most recently served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010. A long-time champion of women’s rights, she has advocated for gender equality and women’s empowerment throughout her career.

One of her major successes as President was her decision to save billions of dollars in revenues to spend on issues such as pension reform, social protection programmes for women and children, and research and development, despite the financial crisis.

Other initiatives included tripling the number of free early child-care centres for low-income families and the completion of some 3,500 child-care centres around the country. She also held ministerial portfolios in the Chilean Government as Minister of Defence and Minister of Health. As Defence Minister, Ms. Bachelet introduced gender policies intended to improve the conditions of women in the military and police forces. As Minister of Health, she implemented health care reform, improving attention to primary care facilities with the aim of ensuring better and faster health care response for families.

Ms. Hanny Cueva Beteta is Policy Adviser of the Peace and Security section, part of the Policy Division of UN Women, based in New York. She has been one of the main technical leading experts on the interagency work for development of indicators on women, peace and security for use at the global level as requested by Security Council Resolution 1889. She oversees various global programmes on gender-responsive peacebuilding to support implementation of the Secretary General’s 7-point Action Plan on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding .

Hanny was also one of the main authors of UNIFEM's flagship report Progress of the World's women 2008/09 "Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability". Hanny is originally from Peru where she worked in poverty and development issues for over 10 years and was a University lecturer and researcher. She has published extensively. She holds a BA in Economics and a MPhil in Development Studies.

Dr. Linda Jones joined the Coady International Institute this year to head up the International Centre for Women’s Leadership and build its programs. She came to the Coady from her senior management position at the prestigious Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. Linda is a well-known authority on women’s economicempowerment with extensive implementation experience in Asia and Africa. She has contributed to the overall advancement of the development industry through positions such as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the SEEP Network, Editor of the Enterprise Development and Microfinance Journal, Founder and Chair of Women Advancing Microfinance, Canada, and Advisor to the Eurasia Foundation on women’s entrepreneurship.

Linda has published extensively in the field of economic development but takes the most pride in her practical work to develop capacities and programs in the global south. In addition to designing and leading innovative and successful empowerment projects, Linda has been a facilitator/trainer with the Southern New Hampshire University and the International Labour Organisation among others. Linda holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology, a post-degree diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies, and managed an international multi-disciplinary research centre at the University of Waterloo.