Victors Not Victims: Women Driving Social Change and Striving for Peace in Conflict Zones
Speakers
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Executive Director, Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre
Fartuun Adan is the Executive Director of Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre, an NGO based in Somalia. The organisation she leads works in the areas of Human Rights, Peace Building, Development, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Child Soldiers. The organisation’s headquarters is located in Mogadishu, Somalia, where she established the first rape crisis centre. Fartuun works actively towards gender justice and prevention of gender based violence.
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Director, Salmmah Women Resource Center
Fahima Abdel Hafiz Hashim is a women’s rights defender and activist, researcher and trainer. She serves as the Director for Salmmah Women’s Resource Centre. Fahima has a Masters in Documentation and Library Sciences, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria and has over 25 years of experience in the area of gender and development, with a special emphasis on women's rights and sexuality, violence against women and peace-working with women youth in conflict and post conflict situations. Fahima is well connected with the African women’s movement.
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Playwright, V-Day
Eve Ensler is a Tony Award-winning playwright, performer and the Founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women, which has raised $85 million. Her play, The Vagina Monologues, has been published in 48 languages and performed in 140 countries. Eve’s newest work, I Am An Emotional Creature, made the Best Seller list and, following workshops in Johannesburg and Paris, will open in Berkeley, California in June, moving off-Broadway in the Fall. Her next book, In The Body of the World, is due out in 2013.
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Founder and President, Pat Mitchell Media
Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders Forums and Co-Founder, Host, and Curator for TEDWomen
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Director of V-Day Congo, City of Joy
Christine Schuler Deschryver is Director of V-Day Congo and City of Joy. City of Joy is a revolutionary community for women survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, created with support from V-Day and Fondaction Panzi, where pain is turned to leadership and power. In 1998, after the rape and murder of her best friend and the death of an infant in her arms, Christine devoted her life to alerting the world to the femicide and rape against women in DRC. She was named one of The Guardian’s Women of the Year for 2011.
