US Women and Cuba USSF Schedule
USSF events sponsored by the US Women and Cuba Collaboration:

Saturday, June 30th, 1:00 p.m.
Advancing U.S. Women's Rights Through Global Feminism
Breakout Room: Our Lady of Lourdes

The goals of our workshop are to educate and organize about the use of United National international human rights treaties to advance women's rights in the US and to build solidarity among women worldwide. Specifically we will focus on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and UN Security Resolution 1325 which promotes a gender analysis in conflict areas, peacekeeping and post-conflict situations, as well as the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and UN Racial Justice resources.

We plan to talk about and share strategies for building specific US-based women's solidarity projects in Cuba, Venezuela and the Sudan as ways to increase US women's political and policy understanding, as well as to contribute to transforms of US foreign policy toward peaceful and just relations.

Panelists have direct experience with organizing and educating diverse women in the US across race, class, age and sexualities on international human rights strategies for the past twenty years and have organized women's delegations to work in solidarity with women in Cuba, Venezuela and the Sudan.

Panelists include:
Mary Bricker, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Cindy Domingo, co-chair, US Women and Cuba Collaboration, and National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
Jan Strout, co-chair, US Women and Cuba Collaboration, and National Organization for Women
Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, Project to Connect African American and Sudanese Women
Olivia Gumbria, Venezuela Information Office

Proposing Organizations: US Women and Cuba Collaboration, National Organization for Women, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, Venezuelan Information Office
Contact: Jan Strout