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Hurriyet Daily News
Istanbul to host 2011 Global Summit of Women
More than 1,000 women from all over the world will gather in Istanbul for the 21st Global Summit of Women between May 5 and 7. Prominent women will gather in Turkey’s largest city to share winning strategies for advancing women’s economic lives and ensuring global prosperity.
The issues that will be discussed at the summit include growth of the world’s economies, development of a new breed of leadership and engendering of peace worldwide.
The president of the Washington, D.C.-based Globe Women, Irene Natividad, who is also the president of the summit, as well as the Turkish prime minister’s wife, Emine Erdoğan, Turkish state ministers Selma A. Kavaf and Nimet Çubukçu, first ladies from Namibia and Malaysia, Penexupifo Pohamba and Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, as well as many other prominent women will participate in the summit.
“The Global Summit of Women was conceived as the nexus at which all sectors – public, private and nonprofit – would come together under the common vision of dramatically expanding women’s economic opportunities globally through exchanges of working solutions and creative strategies forged by women leaders in different parts of the world,” reads the summit’s mission statement. It also adds that the summit, also referred to as the “Davos for Women” is a business one, whose “business” focus is women’s advancement in the global economy.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=istanbul-to-host-global-summit-of-women-2011-2011-04-28
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