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First World Conference of Women's Shelters |
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30 July 2008
The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS) will host the “First World Conference of Women’s Shelters: Discovering the Common Core – Practical Frameworks for Change” on 8-11 September 2008 at the Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The Conference will gather international experts to debate and learn from each other on the issue of family violence. The work of women’s shelters is often overlooked and as a consequence their important role in dealing with family violence is ignored. The objective of this conference is to increase the capacity of shelters around the world to improve their organizations and their communities to better meet the needs of ethnocultural, multicultural and racial communities when dealing with family violence.
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