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Subject: Women Deliver
> Women Deliver
> 18 to 20 October 2007
> London, United Kingdom
>
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> Web address: http://www.womendeliver.org
>
> Women Deliver is going to be a different kind of
> conference. We are marking the 20th anniversary
> of the global Safe Motherhood Initiative by
> bringing together experts and creative thinkers in
> not only maternal health and mortality but also
> human rights, gender, HIV and AIDS, education,
> micro-enterprise, sexual and reproductive health,
> including family planning, and more.
>
> This broad, international community will make
> Women Deliver a vibrant demonstration of how
> health, gender equality, and development are
> inextricably linked. Women Deliver will present
> data and share evidence, including case studies,
> to document the contribution of women to national
> well-being.
>
> We will show how, with adequate funding and
> political support, programs and policies can
> deliver the promises the international community
> made during the International Conference on
> Population and Development +5 process and in the
> Millennium Development Goals and their targets.
>
> For three days, more than 2,000 people,
> representing multiple sectors and programs
> worldwide, will deliver interactive workshops,
> presentations, and exhibits. Attendees will
> promote cross-cutting investments and partnerships
> with high level delegations from at least 30
> countries, including parliamentarians, Ministers
> of Finance, Ministers of Planning, and civil
> society representatives.
>
> For additional information and to submit your
> session ideas, visit the conference web site
> http://www.womendeliver.org
> or email [log in to unmask]
>
> Convened by: Department of International
> Development, UK . Dutch Ministry of Foreign
> Affairs . Family Care International (WOMEN DELIVER
> Organizing Partner) . International Planned
> Parenthood Federation . Norwegian Agency for
> Development Cooperation . Partnership for
> Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health . Save the
> Children/Saving Newborn Lives . Swedish
> International Development Agency . United Nations
> Children's Fund . UNFPA, United Nations Population
> Fund . US Agency for International Development .
> The World Bank . The World Health Organization
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