"Global Dispatches: Women Moving Forward - and to the Top"

Rebecca Booth Gladys Bongonko Jenni Prisk fields Q&A Breakfast Guests Lilia Velazquez and Fabiola Navarro Shelley Lyford, Dee Aker, Fabiola Navarro and Laura Taylor Banner

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Second Annual International Women's Day Celebration Breakfast

7:30 a.m.

IPJ Institute

The Second Annual International Women’s Day Celebration Breakfast, "Global Dispatches: Women Moving Forward - and to the Top," co-sponsored with Voices of Women, the Women’s Equity Council of the United Nations Association of San Diego, and others brought together more than one hundred and forty members of the San Diego community.  International voices and local “foreign correspondents,” who had just returned from the 50th annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations in New York, reported on progress achieved and challenges faced by women worldwide as they move forward and upward into leadership positions in their countries.

Global Dispatches

• Women and Development ~ Shelley Lyford
• Reflection on Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile ~Fabiola Navarro
• Barriers to Women’s Political Participation in Nepal ~ Laura Taylor
• Women’s Political Representation Worldwide ~ Anne Hoiberg

For Statistics on Political Progress and Challenges, click here