Alexandria Conference on Women: Steps Towards Achieving Reform (STAR)
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Alexandria—the BA Arab Reform Conference is organizing Alexandria Conference on “Women: Steps Towards Achieving Reform” (STAR) from 11-13 December 2006. The main aim of the project is to emphasize the role of women in Arab Reform. Critical areas of concern include the persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women, unequal access to education and training, violence against women and the effects of armed conflicts on women. Equally important is fostering partnerships and networks between women’s organizations in Arab countries and the rest of the world for the implementation of items concerning women’s issues in the Alexandria Declaration.
The conference also seeks to address the major institutional and policy reforms affecting women and gender. The conference offers an opportunity for participants to reflect on the nature and scope of the changes that have occurred over the last decade and those that need to be made in the ongoing struggle to improve the condition and status of women in the region as well as in other parts of the world.
The conference will provide a forum for in-depth and candid debate of the obstacles toward implementation of previous recommendations through addressing the following topics:
1. The Alexandria Declaration and the Status of Women
2. Education and Training for Women
3. Women and the Economy
4. Women in Decision-Making
5. Women and the Media
6. The Female Child
7. Women Trafficking