To Celebrate International Women’s Day
The United Nations Association-East Bay’s dinner celebration for International Women’s Day will address Human Rights for Women and Girls: Promise Fulfilled or Just Dreams?
The keynote address is by Keshet Bachan-Dvorat, Vice President of Partnership and Policy for The US National Committee for UN Women San Francisco; panelists include Dr. Patricia M. Valdespino Castillo on women in science, Nathalie Delrue Mcguire, Honorary Consul of Belgium on women in diplomacy, Antonia Lavine on Human Trafficking, Beverly Upton from the Domestic Violence Consortium. The panel will be moderated by Roxana Damas of the UNA-USA East Bay Chapter.
Lee Kane’s Theater Dance Program will perform with dancers Samantha Kane, Lea Schickler, Olivia Braun, & Roan Pearl. Special guest is vocalist Melanie O’Reilly, Celtic Jazz professional singer/composer, Musician-in-Residence at the University of California Berkeley.
The 2018 United Nations theme for International Women’s Day is Press for Progress, a call-to-action to press forward for gender parity. The United Nations Association-USA East Bay Chapter focus is on CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women. Can the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals be met about women’s needs and rights? How can the targets be reached locally and globally in order to achieve what the USA and 192 other UN Member Governments agreed to in the Development Agenda for 2030? Presentations will complement the understanding of this UN vision; narratives by the panelists will tell of progress by women in the arts, struggles in the diplomatic and scientific fields and their day-to-day lives.
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Cosponsors are The United Nations Association-USA East Bay Chapter, the US National Committee for UN Women, the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, the San Francisco Coalition Against Human Trafficking, The National Council of Jewish Women San Francisco, San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, Psi Upsilon Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha International Incorporated, and UC Berkeley Women and Gender Studies.