The Trinity International Development Initiative is hosting International Women’s Day at Trinity College on Wednesday, 8th March 2017. This year’s event will focus on Female Participation in Politics. Women’s leadership and political participation is a key issue for the United Nations, which passed a 2011 General Assembly on resolution on women’s political participation, noting that “Women in every part of the world continue to be largely marginalized from the political sphere, often as a result of discriminatory laws, practices, attitudes and gender stereotypes, low levels of education, lack of access to health care and the disproportionate effect of poverty on women.” While individual women have overcome these obstacles with great acclaim, and often to the benefit of society at large, for women as a whole more work is needed.
The campaign theme for International Women’s Day 2017 is ‘Be Bold for Change’. Building on the 2016 theme of ‘Pledge for Parity’, a campaign which committed to help women and girls achieve their ambitions; challenge conscious and unconscious bias; call for gender-balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive flexible cultures, the 2017 theme seeks to move from this awareness raising to asking how we can take concrete action. It asks can we ‘Be Bold For Change’ on International Women's Day 2017 and beyond by taking action that truly drives the greatest change for women. The Trinity International Development Initiative invites to you engage with this question in the very sphere were the capacity for action is governed: that of politics.
Speakers:
Fionnuala Gilsenan, Head of Unit, Bilateral Cooperation Unit West and East Africa and Former Ambassador of Ireland to Tanzania
Dr. Natalja Pestova, Human Rights Academic, NUIG, and Coordinator at Mayo Intercultural Action
Hannah Deasy, Programme Coordinator and National Relationship Manager for Women for Election
Please RSVP to Mairéad at finnm6@tcd.ie to confirm your attendance. All are welcome.