SCHAKOWSKY WELCOMES AMBASSADOR HUNT & WOMEN WAGING PEACE TO CAPITOL HILL
May 2, 2001
MAY 2, 2001
SCHAKOWSKY WELCOMES AMBASSADOR HUNT & WOMEN WAGING PEACE TO CAPITOL HILL
WASINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today welcomed to Capitol Hill Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Ambassador Hunt moderated a discussion featuring three women leaders who work for peace and justice throughout the world, often risking their own lives. Representatives and guests heard from Ida Kuklina, Ph.D., Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Ph.D, and Atema Eclai, Ph.D candidate, three members of the Women Waging Peace network, an initiative founded by Ambassador Hunt.
SCHAKOWSKY WELCOMES AMBASSADOR HUNT & WOMEN WAGING PEACE TO CAPITOL HILL
WASINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today welcomed to Capitol Hill Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Ambassador Hunt moderated a discussion featuring three women leaders who work for peace and justice throughout the world, often risking their own lives. Representatives and guests heard from Ida Kuklina, Ph.D., Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Ph.D, and Atema Eclai, Ph.D candidate, three members of the Women Waging Peace network, an initiative founded by Ambassador Hunt.
- Ida Kuklina, Ph.D., Secretary of the Analytical and Information Commission for the Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, will present the work of this leading human rights group that is affecting military reform in Russia and has become a model replicated throughout the former Soviet Union.
- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, has worked with the Mothers of the Guguletu 7 to push for recognition and reparations from South Africa's apartheid regime.
- Atema Eclai, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, has worked with mothers' groups in her native Kenya and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. She has worked with women's development groups, ecumenical religious leaders, and chaired sessions for young African women at the UN Women's conference in Nairobi.