With excitement and pleasure I invite you to join in our 30th Triennial Conference in Mexico City from the 5th to 9th of August in 2010. What an opportunity to experience the depth of history, culture and colour of Mexico, and also to celebrate our triennium past and plan for the future ahead. Put the dates in your diary now.
The Mexican Federation (FEMU) is pleased that the 30th Triennial IFUW Conference will be celebrated in our country in 2010. This is a very significant year for us, during which we will commemorate our 200th year of independence, as well as the 100 year anniversary of Mexico's social revolution, the first of the 20th century. Two hundred years ago we fought for the liberty of a nation and one hundred years ago for its social rights. Mexico was the first country to include social rights in its constitution, the Constitution of 1917, which is in effect today.
Kyung-wha Kang
Keynote Speaker
Kyung-wha Kang is the current Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. Before joining the UN, her work for the Republic of Korea's foreign ministry and national parliament covered a wide range of issues, including human rights and women's advancement. Ms. Kang chaired the 2004 and 2005 CSW. She also worked with a number of women’s organizations in Korea, including the Korean National Council of Women, and served as the spokeswoman of the Korean Women's NGO Committee at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero
Keynote Speaker
Olga Sánchez Cordero is a Justice of the Mexican Supreme Court, the ninth woman to serve in that capacity. She was the first female notary public in Mexico City and taught at the Universidad Autónoma de México. She has been a key figure in the advancement of women in her country.
Patricia Espinosa
Keynote Speaker
Patricia Espinosa is the Mexican Foreign Secretary. Former ambassador to Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Slovakia, she has served as a diplomat since 1981.
Eileen Fegan
Thematic Keynote Speaker
Eileen Fegan has lectured Law at several universities in the UK including Oxford and Queen's Belfast. She specializes in Gender, Legal and Women's Human Rights Education and has been involved in educational outreach projects for women in Northern Ireland and the Palestinian Territories. Eileen has recently set up a new consultancy, ‘Talking Solutions’, in order to apply her academic insights in real communities and put them to work in women's lives.
Felicity Coughlan
Training Facilitator
Dr Felicity Coughlan directs the Independent Institution of Education in South Africa and was previously Strategic Planning Director for the University of Witwaterand. She organizes strategic planning workshops for schools and community organizations, among them the South African Association of Women Graduates.
Helen Sunhee Kim
Training Facilitator
Helen Sunhee Kim is an organizational development consultant and trainer with nineteen years of experience in working with social change organizations in the US and Korea. She is a co-author of Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership and has facilitated many regional, national, and international convenings on movement building strategies and supporting the next generation of nonprofit leaders.
Frances Kunreuther
Training Facilitator
Frances Kunreuther directs the Building Movement Project, which works to strengthen U.S. nonprofits as sites of civic engagement and social change. She is co-author of From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change and Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership.
