Actividad cultural: El Foro sobre los Derechos de la Mujer (3-6 de marzo)

The Seventh Annual Global Women's Rights Forum @ USF

The following events will take place on the University of San Francisco campus (2140 Fulton Street).

Women Leaders: Does It Matter?
Monday, March 3, 6-8pm, Maraschi Room
This panel will focus on whether women heads-of-government (actual or candidates) make a difference for women's rights. USF faculty will present on leaders from Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the US, bringing critical and feminist perspectives to bear on their subjects. Faculty Participants: Claudine Del Rosario (Philippine Studies), Elisabeth Jay Friedman (Politics/Latin American Studies), Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg (Politics), and Keally McBride (Politics).

Women's Right to Health: Perspectives from the Global South*
Wednesday, March 5, 6-8pm, Maraschi Room
Gregory Berger, the producer/director of Aborto Sin Pena (Abortion without Shame) and Estela Kempis Robles, a women's and community health advocate with CIDHAL, one of the oldest women's health centers in Latin America, will present on reproductive rights activism in Mexico, and the impact of recent legislation allowing abortions in Mexico City. They will be joined by Jane Maxwell, a senior editor at the Hesperian Foundation (Berkeley), which is dedicated to publishing for community health and empowerment globally.