tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17087229020930588832011-06-07T23:12:17.078-07:00From November 14-17, 2008, at the Cape Town International Convention Center, up to 2,000 women's rights leaders and activists from around the world will converge on Cape Town, South Africa at the 11th AWID International Forum to discuss the power of movements. A third of these participants will be young women who will be blogging here on their experiences and thoughts at the Forum.Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07449803281890989507noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1708722902093058883.post-88690069921389410812008-12-07T23:57:00.000-08:002008-12-08T00:05:11.916-08:00

The first picture is me wearing a pink scarf. The other picture shows participants from the Pacific at a Forum session wearing pink scarves. For more images of the Presence of Pink at the Forum, please visit http://www.awid.org/eng/Forum-08/Image-gallery

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What Do the Pink Scarves Mean?On Monday (Dec 1) an anonymous blogger asked this question in response to my posting "Post Forum Blues and the ‘What now?’ Syndrome". This post is in response to you personally and to others who might have had the same question.Hi there, thanks for the question. The Pink Scarf was a symbol. Like the red ribbon that symbolised awareness of HIV/AIDs and possibly aslo

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Check out this footage from the 1 in 9 Campaign March that took place in Cape Town on Saturady November 15th 2008. http://ftx.apcwomen.org/content/most-powerful-march-history-women-struggle

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While the Forum was all about the colour pink, post forum has been rather blue! It has been over a week since the final plenary on Monday November 17th and after a few days of slowing down and sleeping in I’m feeling a sense of ‘what now?’ Perhaps one way to get at answering that question is to write.As a young woman attending the Forum (and any international conference of that size) for the

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Hi there fellow bloggerettes,My name is Manjeet Birk and I am a young Canadian woman negotiating my way through the seas at the AWID Forum in Cape Town. In Canada, I work as the Executive Director of a small grassroots collective called Anti-Dote: Multiracial and Indigenous Girls and Women's Network. We are a multiracial, multigenerational network and we use an intergenerational structure to

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We have all just come out of the Plenary session "The Contexts of Our Organising". The panel was a remarkable selection of women's righst activists focusing on sex workers in India, women headed households in Indonesia, law reform for women's righst in Iran, abortion righst for women in Poland, freedom of communication and access to ICT for women in South Africa and as issue pertinent to women in

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The day before the forum began, I attended the young feminist activist forum committee with 50 other activist women working on a variety of issues, from diverse contexts, from all parts of the world. We gathered to strategize ways to influence delegates to foster multigenerational dialogue and young feminist women’s leadership at and post the forum. The planning for this happened over months of

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Hi Young Feminist Bloggers!We have been at the Forum for almost two days now. There has been many interesting sessions running and I have had the opportunity to attend some of these. In particular, the youung women's caucus that takes place in teh Roof Terrace Room every lunch time (13:00). Yesterday there was a good turn out of about 50 young women, many of whom were wearing their pink

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Can we use this blog as a pre-planning space?To begin mapping out process? Unless, I have missed some emails pertaining to format for the conference.We can always delete this post as well.Also, I am not sure who is blogging because I did not receive a list.Fallon

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