February 16, 2000: Workshop - The Implementation of the TRC's Recommendations: Where are we in Relation to Reparations and the Health Sector?

Since the publication of the TRC Final Report in October 1998, there has been little open discussion about what has been done in relation to implementing it's recommendations.

CSVR would like to invite you to a workshop looking at this issue in relation to three key areas:

a) REPARATIONS

Key areas to be discussed are what has been done until now; what should be the way forward, particularly in relation to in relation to victim recourse and government responsibility.

b) THE HEALTH SECTOR

The hearings on the health sector was one of the key institutional hearings of the TRC. But how far have we come in respect of the recommendations made? Key areas which the workshop will discuss are what is being done about medical education; and monitoring and accountability in relation to professional conduct.

c) THE RECONCILIATION SUMMIT

Another key recommendation of the TRC was for reconciliation summit to take place a year after the release of the report.

The workshop will look at ways in which we may want to take this process forward.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Time: 08h30 - 16h30

Venue: Parktonian Hotel, Braamfontein, Johannesburg

RSVP: Mpho Leseka

Tel: (011) 403-5650 ext. 172 OR

Sibusiso Ntuli Tel: (011) 403-5650 ext. 174 or by fax at (011) 339-6785

Registration Fee: R50 per participant. To cover costs of materials.

Your presence will be greatly appreciated.

Please RSVP at your earliest convenience, and before January 29 2000; as the number of participants will be limited. A detailed programme will be forwarded to you upon request.

March 8, 2000: Call To Join The Women's Global Strike

Dear sisters, we invite you, your relatives, friends and colleagues to join the Global Women's Strike on International Women's Day, 8 March 2000. You may already be part of the World March organised by La Federation des Femmes de Quebec/The Federation of Women in Quebec, Canada. We are too. We have written to them, and they welcomed our proposal that we combine our events and support each other. The strike was called almost a year ago by the National Women's Council of Ireland, and was made global by the International Wages for Housework Campaign and the International Women Count Network which Wages for Housework co-ordinates.

Most Of The Work Women Do Is Unwaged, Unrecognised And Unvalued.
The Strike focusses on women's enormous contribution to every society and every economy. Women make the world go round, and raise and look after its entire population; but most of the work we do is unwaged, unrecognised and unvalued.

This lack of economic and social recognition is a fundamental sexist injustice which devalues women and everything women do, including keeping our wages 25%-50% below men's. In fact, though a few women are now in highly paid managerial positions, the gap between women's and men's wages is growing.

We Are Calling For A Millennium Which Values All Women's Work And All Women's Lives.
Women and girls need and deserve a reduction of our workload, and financial recognition for our enormous contribution. Less work, more time, more resources.

A strike is the best way to make visible women's contribution, needs and demands, because WHEN WOMEN STOP, EVERYTHING STOPS! Women have taken strike action before - from Iceland in 1975, to a decade of Time Off for Women in 24 countries (24 October 1985-1994), to Switzerland in 1991 and Mexico in 1999. . .

Such actions have won increased recognition for all the work women do, waged and unwaged, and more bargaining power for our demands - from pay equity to welfare benefits and childcare.

We Are Not Striking For A Few Women To Rise In The Hierarchy.
We have had enough of pinning our hopes on women who urged us to support their rise in the economic and political hierarchy with the promise that when they had attained powerful positions our needs would be addressed. In fact, women who have climbed the power ladder have all too often been used against us, to disguise the attempt by governments to sacrifice our lives on the altar of the "global market". Just as people everywhere are accusing governments of not representing any of us against corporate greed, we are accusing women in governments of not representing women. We as a movement are learning not to confuse the personal ambitions of some women with the road to all women's liberation and the complete transformation of society.

We Must Change The World's Priorities
As the year 2000 approaches, more and more people are aware that such a transformation is vital: the world cannot go on as it is. From war, famine and disease to global warming and other ecological devastation, racism and every other kind of exploitation - high tech has not increased happiness and well-being for the great majority of us, and has often had terrifying consequences, as protests against the arms trade, genetically modified foods, NAFTA and the World Trade Organisation have highlighted. It is not the money that's lacking but the political will to change the world's priorities. Global figures on military spending - $700 billion a year - compared to spending for essentials for living - $20 billion - demonstrate that for all to see.

Our Demands
There are many ways that women can get the money and resources we are owed.

Add your own demands to this list.
· The abolition of "Third World debt". The work women do - massively increased by structural adjustment programmes imposed by the International Monetary Fund - has more than repaid the debt. How can "loans" a few decades old compare with 500 years of colonial theft and genocide?

· Accessible clean drinking water and ecologically sound technology for every household - we all deserve cookers, fridges, washing machines, computers. . . just because we're poor doesn't mean we have fewer needs.

· Affordable and accessible housing and transportation.

· Protection against all violence - at home, in the factory, in the office, on the farm, on the street . . .

· Pay equity for all - equal pay for work of equal value internationally.

· Wages for caring work, whether in the family or not. What work is more valuable than raising children and caring for others?

· Paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks and other benefits that recognise women's biological work rather than penalising us for being women.

· Women in Ireland are demanding that International Women's Day, 8 March, should be a paid public holiday every year starting in 2000.

Support and Publicity
Please include information about the Strike in your publications and if you have a website link it up to the Strike Webpage http://womenstrike8m.server101.com

Women in the European and Latin American Network of Pirate Radios (Women Creating Communication Spaces) are broadcasting a jingle they have composed in Spanish and German, which you may want to translate for your own network and broadcast in your country.

Some trade unions have started to take up the call for the Strike. Men and boys are being asked to support it too.

How You Can Join
Please visit the web site and send us your comments and suggestions on how you want to participate, and on how women should be remunerated for all their work, in time, money, land, housing, healthcare, childcare, education, technology . . .

Languages Available
So far our Strike leaflet is in: Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese, French, Gaelic, German, Gujerati, Hindi, Italian and Spanish.

We also have attractive Strike T-shirts, badges and postcards (with English logos) for sale. Power to the sisters to stop the world - and change it!

Signed By:
Yolanda Benito
Mujeres por el Salario para el Trabajo Sin Sueldo (Spain)
Apartado 109, 08080 Barcelona

Margaretta D'Arcy
Women Count Network (Ireland),
10 St Bridget's Place Lower, Galway

Selma James
International Wages for Housework Campaign (England)
Crossroads Women's Centre, 230a Kentish Town Rd, London NW5 2AB

Margaret Prescod
International Black Women for Wages for Housework (USA)
PO Box 86681, Los Angeles, California 90086-0681

Webpage: http://womenstrike8m.server101.com

E-mail: womenstrike8m@server101.com

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March 10-12, 2000: Conference - Women, Violence and Reconciliation: Dublin, Ireland

Centre for Women's Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

The Centre for Women's Studies, Trinity College, Dublin and the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at the University of Oxford are organising a Euroconference in March, 2000, funded by the European Commission.

The focus of this specialist workshop is on women, violence and reconciliation. In particular, we would like to explore three key themes: violence against women as a violation of human rights; the relationship between 'public' and 'private' violence; and women's role in reconciliation.

The increase in violence against women from war, social disintegration, ethnic and domestic violence reinforces the belief that women are particularly at risk from violence and that this threat puts all women at risk. We welcome discussion on all aspects of these issues and hope to foster links among those who are doing research on these common themes in different geographical areas.

We have invited a number of key speakers, who will introduce some of the main issues, to be followed by small group discussion. This will provide an opportunity for younger researchers to present shorter papers about their work in a supportive framework. The aims of the Euroconference are to encourage European networking and to offer experience to younger researchers, who will receive a special subsidy for participation. We would, therefore, be most grateful if you could draw the attention of your younger researchers and other colleagues to this conference.

We hope that you will be able to participate in the conference, and would be grateful if you could return the enclosed Expression of Interest form to me at the above address by 17 January 2000.

The form simply requires a brief statement of research interests and a brief abstract of the paper you would like to present.

We will send you additional information about the conference in the near future and will post information on our website as it becomes available. Both Cathie Lloyd of the CCCRW and I hope you will be able to join us in what I am sure will be an exciting and enriching exchange of ideas.

Dr. Maryann Valiulis
Director, Centre for Women's Studies, Trinity College
Euroconference: Women, Violence and Reconciliation
Centre for Women's Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 10-12 March 2000

Expression of Interest
Name:
Address:
Email:
Position:
Research interests/current research (please provide a title and short 200 word abstract, if you are interested in presenting a paper)
Interest in the conference (please tick as appropriate)
- Full length paper
- Shorter informal paper as younger researcher (from EU and 35 or under)
- Participant only
Names/addresses of other people who might be interested in attending the conference:

Please return this form to:
Dr. Maryann Valiulis,
Centre for Women's Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>by 17 January 2000. Email: wscentre@tcd.ie

June 8-11, 2000: International Conference - Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future, Canada

7th International Federation of Information Processing - (IFIP) Working Group 9.1 Women, Work and Computerization Conference

Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA

Papers, panel presentations, workshop and tutorial proposals and poster submissions related to the conference themes, outlined below, are sought. Both empirical and theoretical research will be presented from international perspectives.

New information technologies are changing every sector of society, and transforming women's work and women's lives. We are seeing significant changes from women's traditional work to work based on modern technology; from communicating within personal communities to virtual communities; from traditional job gendering to new perspectives on "who does what."

Participants are challenged to identify the ways information technology constrains and contributes to women's equality; to examine the way women's professional and personal lives are being transformed in the information economy; and to plot a course to the future for women and computer technologies.

This series of conferences now has a tradition of interpreting the word 'computerization' not only in the narrow sense of computing systems, but also in a broader sense which includes the organizational and social context in which computer systems are designed and used.

Themes and Topics

The following themes and topics are included as a guide, and should be interpreted broadly.

1. Setting the course: Taking stock of where we are and where we're going
2. Charting undiscovered waters: Creating models, tools and theories
3. Navigating the unknown: Sex, time, space and place
4. Taking the helm: Education and pedagogy

Invited Talks

Elaine Bernard, Executive Director, Harvard University Trade Union Program, Harvard University, USA

Invited Panel

Charting a Course Toward Equitable System Design: Bringing Social Goals to System Design

Important Dates

Papers and proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials due: September 30, 1999

Participants notified about status of submissions for papers, workshops and tutorials: December 15, 1999

Proposals for poster sessions are due: January 30, 2000

Final papers due: February 28, 2000

Participants notified about status of submissions for posters: February 28, 2000

Last day for early registration: March 24, 2000

WWC 2000 conference organizers urge people intending to submit papers to forward a brief abstract and biography by March 30, 1999. This information will used to prepare funding applications only.

Conference Organization and Sponsors

The conference is organized under the auspices of International Federation of Information Processing Working Group 9.1 (Computers and Work)

Sponsors:

Assessment of Technology in Context Design Lab, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST), School of Communication, Simon Fraser University School of Communication, Simon Fraser University The Office of the Vice-President Academic, Simon Fraser University Supporting Women in Information Technology Project (SWIFT), University of British Columbia

Conference Chair:

Ellen Balka, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
E-mail: ebalka@sfu.ca

Conference Organizer:

Deborah Kirby
E-mail: dkirby@sfu.ca

Conference Address:

IFIP-WWC 2000
Deborah Kirby
c/o School of Communication
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia Canada V5A 1S6

Tel +01 604 291.3764
Fax +01 604 291.4024
E-mail wwc2000@sfu.ca
Web www.sfu.ca/~wwc2000/

For more information, please contact Deborah Kirby (dkirby@sfu.ca).

Deborah Kirby, Executive Director, WWC2000
c/o School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 CANADA

September 23-29, 2000: "Yes Simama Ranta 2000" (Awards Function)

Applying youth entrepreneurship as an effective vehicle to combat unemployment amongst the South African youth - EWET presents "YES SIMAMA RANTA 2000" from Saturday 23 until Tuesday 29 September (Awards Function) 2000 at the ESCOM Conference Centre in Midrand, South Africa. Nine provincial teams consisting of twenty two Youth Enterprise Society (YES) members will compete in ten individual and four team events. Please see http://ewet.org.za/yes/cc.html and http://ewet.org.za/yes/aa.html

These Grades 9, 10 and 11 YES members who qualified through regional and provincial knock-out rounds will be competing to be the best in South Africa in "Training a new employee" (for example), canvas to be elected to the National YES Executive, mount exhibitions at the venue to sell and promote their products or services as well as to participate in workshops relating to aspects of entrepreneurship.

Opportunities exist for you to get involved through sponsoring one of the fourteen events (events are named after the sponsoring company); to serve on one of the three member adjudication panels of the 19 events or sub-events; to pay a visit at the exhibitions by the YES members or to present a highly interactive workshop on a entrepreneurship relating topic.

A very special invitation is extended to the media. There are lots of success stories and action orientated events that provides ample opportunities for good coverage.

Please do not hesitate to contact us:

EWET - Education With Enterprise Trust,
49c Stuart Street,
PO Box 150,
Harrismith, 9880,
South Africa

e-mail: ewet@wn.apc.org
Tel. (058) 623 0123/0649/0104
Fax (058) 623 0107
World Wide Web: http://www.ewet.org.za (an UNESCO TOP50 African Web Site).

It is only our effective collaboration with each other that will ensure our effectively in combating poverty. Please join-in? The future of our youth depends on your involvement!

Contact:
Zini Mchunu Cell. (082) 465-3573 zini@ewet.org.za
Mamahase Mosheshe Cell. (082) 465-3574 mamahase@ewet.org.za
Zanele Sithole Cell. (082) 465-3576 zanele@ewet.org.za
Rachelle Delport Cell. (082) 465-3577 rachelle@yes.co.za

October 6-13, 2000: Third International Conference on Women in Africa & the African Diaspora (WAAD III), Madagascar

Call For Action! Madagascar 2000!!

Theme:

Facing the New Millennium: Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora--Retrospection and Prospects

Antananarivo, Madagascar

CONTACT: Obioma Nnaemeka, Convenor, Third WAAD Conference,
Women's Studies Program,
Cavanaugh Hall Room 001C, Indiana University,
425 University Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Phone: (317) 278-2038, (317) 274-7611 or (317) 274-0062 (messages),
fax: (317) 274-2347,
e-mail: nnaemeka@iupui.edu
(PLEASE USE E-MAIL FOR FASTER SERVICE).

NOTE: This announcement, information about Madagascar, and conference updates are available at the conference website:
http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws/
(click on "Action Alert" or "WAAD Conference").

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