This is the first and only call for Workshop proposals for the 2013 IFUW Conference in Istanbul, Turkey.  
The Conference theme is: Women’s role in achieving a sustainable future – Education, Urbanisation, Violence and Human Rights.  
Proposals are invited for workshops on:
  1. Gender inequalities in education: a threat to sustainable societies?
  2. Is the provision of quality higher education for all economically sustainable?
  3. The culture of violence against women as a threat to sustainability.
  4. Population, sustainability, and reproductive rights.
  5. Can we have a sustainable future without women’s leadership?
  6. Sustaining women’s health: the right to access to good health care.

Submission guidelines:
  • Workshops must be proposed through national federations and associations (NFAs).  Each NFA may propose up to FOUR workshops.
  • NFAs are asked to submit proposals on the provided proposal form directly to workshops@ifuw.org by Thursday 28 February 2013.  
  • Proposals received after this deadline will not be considered. 

Please read the accompanying information very carefully and note that IFUW is NOT able to provide any funding. 
Workshop presenters must pay the conference enrolment fee, plus all travel, accommodation and subsistence costs.

We ask you to share this announcement widely with the members of your national federation and association, as well as with local branches, so that everyone has an opportunity to participate.

Accompanying information/Supporting documents:

1.       Call for Workshops

2.       Workshop Proposal Form

3.       Information on Preparing a Workshop

All these documents can be found on the IFUW website at: http://www.ifuw.org/ifuw2013/call-for-workshop-proposals/
and also at: http://www.ifuw.org/resources/circulars/


PROPOSALS ARRIVING AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.


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