Events
The Women’s Forum Global Meeting is held annually in Deauville, France, every October. It welcomes around 1300 participants to discuss major issues in world events and gender diversity.
The latest Global Meeting, in October 2012, featured two Nobel Peace Prize laureates — Iran's Shirin Ebadi and Liberia's Leymah Gbowee — as well as Cherie Blair, Carlo d’Asaro Biondo, Clara Gaymard, Antony Jenkins, Viviane Reding, Stéphane Richard, Dominique Reiniche, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and Melanne Verveer. The theme of the 2012 Global Meeting was "Wanted: 360° Growth", and it included a powerful delegation of 40 women leaders from Africa, who focused on the new economic power of women in the region. In 2013 the theme of the Global Meeting will be The 3Cs: Competition, cooperation, creativity.
Speakers at previous Global Meetings have included H.M. Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi, Louise Arbour, Ingrid Betancourt, Irina Bokova, Carlos Ghosn, Angel Gurria, Angelique Kidjo, Christine Lagarde, Taslima Nasreen, Hans Rosling, Joseph Stiglitz, Simone Veil and Muhammad Yunus.
In June 2012 the Women’s Forum produced a regional edition in São Paulo, Brazil on the theme “Achieving the country of the future”. Speakers included Maria das Graças Foster and Marina Silva. Following that success, a second Women's Forum Brazil will be organized in June 2013.
The Women's Forum will also organize a two-day forum in Burma in December 2013, at the request of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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