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Workshop Schedule
(subject to change)

TUESDAY June 6, 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Roundtable Discussion: The United Nations as an Emerging Political Institution	Panelists: Joyce Gelb (CUNY); Kazuko Watanabe, Shizuko Koedo, Jane Baynes (California State at Northridge); Jane Grant, Ann Bastow, John Kim and Annette Lawson (European Parliament, UK)
Teaching and Learning in a Transnational Framework	Moderator and Discussant: Patricia Clough (CUNY) Participants: Amit Rai (Eugene Lang); Chris GoGwilt (Fordham University); Janet Jakobsen (Barnard College); Shamita Dasgupta (Rutgers University, Manavi); Anahid Kassabian (Fordham University); David Staples (CUNY); Binh Pok (CUNY); Rose Kim (CUNY); Tracyann Williams (CUNY)
Faces of Extremism: Countering Right Wing Attacks on the Human Rights of Women Worldwide	Organized by the Feminist Majority Foundation and Tahirah Justice Center Panelists: Irena Lieberman and Katy Parsi (Tahirah Justice Center)
Poetry Reading with "Youth Speaks"	Moderators: Sara Ganter (CUNY), Jenn Wiess (Youth Speaks) Respondents: Beatrix Gates and Patricia Clough (CUNY)
We Shall Overcome Crystal Ice Walls!	Okayama Communication Network of the World Conference in Japan
Violence Against Women - From Fact-Findings	Sakai City Women's Organization, UNIFEM Sakai
What Yamaguchi Women Think about the Constitution of Japan	Yamaguchi JAC, Beijing JAC
Electronic Networking and Women's Global Advocacy	Global Network on Women's Advocacy and Civil Society: Kathleen McCarthy; Kitty Sklar
Bringing Beijing Plus Five to Campus	National Council for Research on Women
Don't Be a Nobody - Gender Balanced Society from the Political Perspective	Beijing JAC Fukuoka
Escape from Zero	Beijing JAC Niigata
Towards the Elimination of Trading in Women: Recommendation to the International Community	International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The Rights of Women in Agricultural Areas of Japan	Amagi-Asakura Women's Conference
Gender and Human Rights	Forum Against Child Prostitution in Thailand and Aid Those Abused

TUESDAY June 6, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Sex Work, Migration and Human Rights	Moderator: Grace Mitchell (CUNY) Participants: Teri Goodson (San Francisco's Cyprian Build), Kamala Kempadoo (University of Colorado at Boulder), Laura Agustin, and Barbel Butterweck (Czech's La Strada Organization)
Globalization, Violence and Organizing Domestic Labor: A Panel Discussion	Moderator: Lopamudra Basu (CUNY) Respondent: Meena Alexander (CUNY) Participants: Shamita Das Dasguptz (Manavi; South Asian Organization Against Domestic Violence); Carol De Leon and Aijen Poo (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence); Nadia Marine Molina (Workplace Project); Chandana Mathur (New School for Social Research, Samar Collective)
South Asian Women's Creative Collective Panel	Host/Moderator: Tejal Jesrani (SAWCC, NCRW) Artists: Jaishri Abichandani (Photographer, Poet); Chitra Ganesh (Painter); Swati Khurana (Video Artist); Prema Murthy (Digital Artist) Organizers: Swati Khurana (SAWCC); Tejal Jesrani (NCRW); Maureen Fadem (CUNY)
Development of Political Power at the Grassroots Level	Moderator: Ann Juliano-Jawin (Queen's Women's Center) Panelists: Gale Brewer (NYS Political Caucus); Cora Fields (NY Coalition of 100 Black Women); Kelli Conlon (NOW NYC); Martha Baker (Women in Non-Traditional Trades); Barbara Gerard (Multicultural Education)
Women's Political Representation in Latin America and the Caribbean	Jacqueline Polanco (CUNY)
Speak Sister Speak: Strategies for Women's Empowerment and Struggles for Change	Organizers: Malsha Uzuri James; Portia Walton; Madeline Lamour; Alberta Morgan; Alaiye Agemo; Talibah Dolphy; Gwendolyn Davis; Yvette Payne (Sister's Lending Circle, Central Brooklyn Partnership)
Preventing Family Violence: A Child's Perspective on Global Issues, a Global Response // and // Sustainable Funding for NGOs Working with the Girl Child	Save the Children Fund // and // Rachel Burr
A Gathering for Women Entrepreneurs	Women 2000 Network Kansai
Domestic Violence in Sakai City	Sakai City Women's Counseling Center
The Strategy and Action to Promote Women's Political Participation in the Local Community	Women 2000 Network Shizuoka

Wednesday June 7, 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Grass Roots Dialogue: A Meeting of the Minds	Moderator: Joyce Gelb (CUNY) Participants: Mari Sakaji, Surabhi Prakash, Adarsh Tiwathia, Norma Stanton, Sandy Warshaw
The Must Without a Passport: Poetry and the Public Sphere	Panelists: Meena Alexander, Mahwash Shoiab, Maureen Fadem (CUNY); Suheir Hammad; Tracie Morris
Surveillance and Resistance: Speaking from the Margins	Panelists: Michelle Fine, Marie Torre, Sarah Carney, and Katie Cuminsky (CUNY); Anita Harris (Deakin University AUSTRALIA)
Oil and Drugs = Corruption: Measuring Their IMpact on the Lives of Women and Foreign Policy	Feminist Majority Foundation In most cases where the rights of women and girls are negelcted, various levels of corruption can be identified as catalysts for the crises and evolving foreign policy decisions. Panelists will discuss the links between the global oil and drug economy and the human rights abuses inflicted upon women and girls around the world.
Improving Employment Conditions for Women in Multinational Companies	Kate Cloud (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Women and the Food Chain, or Who Will Play God in the 21st Century	Joan Mencher
Poverty	Ms. Kiyomi Kougo
The Traditional Sex-Divisions in Education: A Report from Sendai, Japan	Beijing Plus Five Sendai Group
Violence Against Women in Japan	Niigata Women's Space
Working Together Toward the Elimination of Violence Against Women	The Fukuoka Network for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Unpaid Word	Sakura
Multiple Discrimination Against Minority Women	International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The Environment as Economy, Women's Challenge in Kitakyushu	Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women
Our First Female Governor in a Male Dominated Society	Active Kumamoto

Wednesday June 7, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

A Transnational Mushaira: An Evening of International Poetry	Poets: Rashida Ayan, Beatrix Gates, Suheir Hammad, Mahe Jabeen, Tracie Morris, Shehla Naqvi, Kristin Prevallet, Humaira Rahman, Sabiha Saba, Rene Steinke, and Zarin Yasin Organizers: Mahwash Shoiab, Maureen Fadem
Frameworks for Organizing: From the US Civil Rights Movement to Human Rights for Immigrant Families, with clips from Fundi: The Life of Ella Baker	Moderators: Norah Chase and Electa Arenal (CUNY) Discussant: Muriel Tillinghast Participants: Ujvil Aggarwal, Donna Nevel, and Amy Velez (Center on Culture, Migration and Community Organization); Nieves Ayress (Vamos a la Pena)
Presentation of the New UNIFEM Report on the Progress of the World's Women	Diane Elson, UNIFEM
How Can We Enact and Enforce the Law Against Domestice Violence: Experiences in Asia and the United States	KFAW/ Shinozaki
The Role of Women's Centers in Japan: Trends in Activities Reflecting the World Women's Movement	Tamah Nakamura, Yoriko Taniyama, Denise Drake