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New UNIFEM Executive Director to speak at Congress 2008 |
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 Following the appointment of Noeleen Heyzer, former Executive Director
of UNIFEM, to a new post in Bangkok, Thailand, WACC is delighted to
announce that Joanne Sandler, ad interim Executive Director of the
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), will replace her as
keynote speaker at its upcoming global communications conference, Congress 2008, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 6-10. She will be giving a presentation on 'Media and gender justice.'
Until recently, Sandler served as Deputy
Director for Programme and guided UNIFEM’s efforts to implement
rights-based, results-based programmes in support of women’s
empowerment and rights in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the
Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of
Independent States.
She has worked with international organizations
and women’s groups worldwide for the past 25 years, with a focus on
organizational development, strategic planning and economic justice.
She has also served on the Board of Directors of a number of
international and domestic organizations, including the Association for
Women's Rights in Development, Gender at Work, and Women Make Movies.
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