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First International Forum on Women and Local Politics |
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UN-INSTRAW participated at First International Forum on Women and Local Politics on 26 February 2008 in Córdoba, Spain. The aim of the Forum was to analyze and commonly agree upon local initiatives to confront the challenges of the processes resulting from a global and interconnected world.
The Forum gathers women politicians and municipal negotiators from Europe, Latin America, the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Near East to debate and share agendas and networks on global issues that have incidence on local environments, as well as to create a space for permanent exchange and projection of information.
Some of the issues debated during the Forum included the role of women in the Alliance of Civilizations, managing local intercultural issues, network participation, women as subject and object of local politics or management of territorial and citizenship spaces.
The Forum was organized by the International-Andalusian Municipal Fund for International Solidarity, with support from Ministry of Foreign Relations and Cooperation of Spain, The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), The Arab House, the Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAP), the Cordoba Congress, UNIFEM and the ART Initiative.
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