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President's Council
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President's Council Co-Chair and IWHC Board
member Susan Nitze hosts a March 2006
panel on women and HIV/AIDS. |
The President's Council is a network of dedicated allies who, with IWHC, lead the way as a forceful voice for women and girls throughout the world. Members of the President's Council are invited to participate in discussions with international specialists, colleagues from other countries, and the IWHC board to keep current on international issues affecting women's health and rights (see a list of select recent events below). Council members provide insight, advice, and feedback to keep us well-informed and connected to public opinion in the United States. They advocate with the media and elected officials to ensure that U.S. foreign policy and assistance address the realities of women's health and human rights. IWHC periodically uses President's Council membership dues to make special grants.
President's Council members contribute $1,000 or more annually to IWHC. Members receive:
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Briefings by experts and advocates from around the world
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Invitations to exclusive events and evening receptions
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Email updates offering an insider's perspective on our issues
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Action alerts about how you can support women's health and rights
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Updates from IWHC's president and board chair highlighting recent achievements and priorities.
Click here to join the President's Council with a gift of $1,000 or more.
For more information, contact Laura Miller at 212-979-8500 x280 or lmiller@iwhc.org.
Past President's Council Events>>
March 1, 2006: Breakfast Briefing, New York City. "With Women Worldwide—A Compact to End HIV/AIDS," panel discussion on a global initiative to make HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment strategies work for women, featuring Bene Madunagu (Girls' Power Initiative, Nigeria), Wanda Nowicka (Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland), Meena Saraswathi Seshu (SANGRAM, India) and Laura Villa Torres (Youth Coalition; Ipas, Mexico), moderated by IWHC Senior Advisor for International Policy Zonny Woods and with introductory remarks by IWHC President Adrienne Germain.
More information about With Women Worldwide>>
February 15, 2006: Screening of "The Day My God Died," a documentary on human trafficking in Asia, followed by a panel disucssion, the Asia Society, New York City. The panel, moderated by IWHC Executive Vice President Beth Fredrick, featured Dr. Annie Sparrow (a researcher at Human Rights Watch) and Melissa Upreti (legal adviser for Asia at the Center for Reproductive Rights).
November 4, 2005: Lunchtime Lecture & Discussion, New York City. Presentation by Beatrice Were, one of Uganda's most courageous and compelling AIDS activists. Beatrice helped establish the National Community of Women Living with AIDS (NACWOLA), an organization that began as a small women's support group and has grown to 40,000 members in 25 districts of Uganda. Beatrice's struggles to disclose her HIV status to her children led her to establish the Memory Book project, which encourages HIV positive mothers to prepare their children for orphanhood by recording family memories and talking openly about their HIV status.
March 8, 2005: Breakfast Briefing, New York City. "Sri Lankan Women Post-Tsunami and Beijing at 10," panel discussion featuring Kumudini Samuel (Director, Women and Media Collective; Member, Coalition for Assisting Tsunami Affected Women, Sri Lanka), Rodelyn Marte (Co-Coordinator, Network of Asia Pacific Youth), Patricia Moser (Executive Vice President, IWHC), and Zonny Woods (Special Advisor for International Policy, IWHC).
September 15, 2004: Lunchtime Lecture & Discussion, New York City, "Trip Report: A Tour of IWHC's Work in Nigeria," presentation by IWHC President and staff on returning from a two-week trip to Nigeria to celebrate the tenth anniversary of longtime IWHC colleagues Girls' Power Initiative (GPI) and visit other groups across the country. During the trip, IWHC staff presented GPI with a special President's Council grant to be put toward building a youth center in Calabar, Nigeria.
July 20, 2004: Lunchtime Lecture & Discussion, New York City, "Child Marriage, Married Adolescents: A Cause for Global Action," presentation and discussion of groundbreaking research on married adolescent girls in Africa and Asia by Judith Bruce of the Population Council.
July 13, 2004: Lunchtime Lecture & Discussion, New York City, "The Last Hurrah: Latin America Staves Off U.S. Pressure and Reaffirms the Cairo Program of Action," presentation by IWHC staff and consultant on returning from the regional review of the 1994 global agreement on women's health and rights, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
May 21, 2004: Lunchtime Lecture & Discussion, New York City, "The Impact of Unsafe Abortion on Women's Health in Nigeria" presentation by two coordinators of Nigeria's Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy, an IWHC colleague organization.
April 25, 2004: March for Women's Lives, Washington, DC. The President's Council sponsored a bus for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.
December 1, 2003: Co-sponsored screening of "A Closer Walk" for World AIDS Day, at the Asia Society, New York City.
October 1, 2003: Cocktail reception, Washington, DC, "Creating Common Ground: An Action Agenda for Women's Health and Rights."
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