Townsville International Women's Conference - 'Poverty, Violence and Women's Rights: Setting a Global Agenda'

Building on the work of Beijing, Beijing+5, Brighton 1996 and World March of Women 2000, the conference aims:

- To promote a strong women's/feminist global agenda;
- To focus on corporate globalisation and its impact on women, the poor, and other disadvantaged groups and nations;
- To reiterate the World March of Women 2000 themes - the elimination of poverty and the elimination of violence against women;
- To encourage participation of Indigenous Australian women and women of the South Pacific and South East Asian nations, as well as those from every other country in the world; and
- To create an opportunity for all participants to experience solidarity with other women in the battle against increasingly more pervasive forms of oppression.

Invitations are presently being extended to a number of overseas and Australian women to attend the conference as guest speakers in the plenary sessions. Speaker names will be added to the TIWC website as acceptances are received.

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