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International Women's Day 2010
This year's theme for International Women's Day will be launched under "Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All". Uniterra has decided to harness the talents of its field volunteers in communications to produce and share a series of audiovisual productions showing different issues women face around the world. The videos, audio productions, photos and articles will bring you to a usually less-known world, where women from different countries will tell you how they live. We hope these productions will feed your discussions and activities around March 8th!
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Canadian Parliamentarians visit WUSC office while in mission to Botswana.
UNITERRA’s volunteers in Gaborone, Botswana, had the opportunity to exchange with a group of Canadian parliamentarians about their experiences, their successes and the challenges they are facing every day.
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¡Neither forgotten nor silenced!

Women from UNAMG. Photo: Elizabeth Desgranges

Court of Conscience against sexual violence against women during armed conflict in Guatemala.
"The Court was quite emotional and very interesting, but what I am looking forward to seeing is the impact at both a national and personal levels for the women who participated", says Elizabeth Desgranges, Gender specialist with Uniterra, Guatemala

Beginning of March, 2010, the National Union of Guatemalan Women (UNAMG), a Uniterra partner, has carried a Court of Conscience to denounce the sexual violence suffered by more than 1,500 women (mostly Mayan) during the internal armed conflict. The Court of Conscience is a symbolic act that will help restore dignity to the torture survivors and expose the guilt of the Guatemalan state which, according to proponents, has systematically used sexual violence as a weapon of war. This initiative also aims to urge society to commit to protect women from violence. As a Uniterra volunteer, Elizabeth Desgranges's duties include translating the testimonies of victims and experts. Subsequently, she supports UNAMG as part of a research project designed to assess the impact of court awareness on women's lives.
Follow the results of the initiative on Elizabeth’s blog (In French)
Visit the UNAMG website for more feedback on the Court of Conscience (In Spanish)

Local Committees have started their annual Symposia Series - don't miss it!
International Development Week is also the moment chosen by WUSC Local Committees to start their Symposia Series on campus.
See Symposia Series Calendar
For more info, contact campus@wusc.ca

International Development Week
Video ads on youth engagement… with Uniterra Eight young Quebecers who have been particularly engaged were profiled by AQOCI. See a sample below. (In French)
To watch all videos on youtube

Severine Garnier, President of WUSC Local Committee on the Université Laval campus in Quebec City, and active participant in the Uniterra campaigns. (In French)

Visit her Facebook profile within the AQOCI project

Kristell Savard and William Wilson, members of the Groupe de collaboration internationale en ingénierie de l'Université de Sherbrooke (GCIUS) which organize international development projects annually with Uniterra.

Visit their Facebook profile within the AQOCI project

Partners from Guinea participate in an internship in Quebec
Through its partnerships each year, Uniterra receives South-North volunteers or members of local organizations from the South to participate in trade missions with similar organizations in Canada. In February 2010, we receive a visit from Mrs. Kadiatou Diallo, Education Officer from the National Directorate of Local Development (DNDL) of the Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development in Guinea, and Mr. Mohamed Lamine Camara, Municipal Commissioner of the Urban City of Kaloum. Both have objectives to visit and meet the leaders of several organizations about the social economy in Quebec and to study their management and operation in order to establish Cooperatives of Local Economic Interest (CLEI) in Guinea. The stay of Mrs. Diallo and Mr. Camara is supported by the Chantier de l’économie sociale du Québec.