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Message from the President, Ms. Almas Jiwani
Dear friends, Mark your calendars. International Women’s Day is on March 8 and this important day is fast approaching! UN Women National Committee Canada is excited to join this year’s global celebration of women. The theme is the clarion call of UN Women’s Beijing+20 campaign “Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture it!” We commemorate the ground-breaking…
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Canadian leadership on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
We are delighted and honoured that the Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada invited our president Almas Jiwani to a Conversation regarding Canadian leadership on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: Vaccines and Nutrition with Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa on…
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UN Women Canada Works With TO2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games to Promote HeForShe Campaign
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Feb. 24, 2015) – UN Women National Committee Canada (UNWNCC) is working with the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, through the TO2015 IGNITE program, to raise awareness about important women’s issues and the UN Women’s HeForShe campaign. “This program will help us to bring even more visibility to the HeForShe movement,”…
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Agribusiness in Africa
While climate change can bring about drought, it can also bring floods and degraded water quality. As it’s mainly women that are tasked with water collection, this will force women to walk greater distances to find it.
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Magna Carta Canada
Almas Jiwani, President Emiratus UN Women Canada and CEO of the Almas Jiwani Foundation is truly honoured and humbled to receive one of the 150 medallions in commemoration of the Magna Carta’s 2015 exhibit in Canada on the piece’s 800th year anniversary. This 24-karat gold medallion features the Great Seal of King John, affixed to…
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Almas Jiwani participated in the panel discussion on Magna Carta
“The Magna Carta was the first document to protect certain rights of women. Various clauses codified the marriage rights of noble heiresses and the property and marriage rights of wealthy widows in medieval England. Although these early clauses were applied solely to wealthy and aristocratic women, offering little to no protection for those of lower…
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Power of One – Almas Jiwani to Celebrate International Women’s Day with “We Move Forward” as keynote speaker, Isla Mujeres, Mexico
ISLA MUJERES, MEXICO–(Marketwired – Feb. 5, 2015) – Having Almas Jiwani, President of UN Women Canada President, give the keynote address on March 8, International Women’s Day is both timely and symbolic. The goals of the conference align perfectly with those of the organization that proclaimed March 8th ‘UN Day for Women’s Rights and World…
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Almas Jiwani Joins Other Trailblazers to Celebrate Black Women in Canada
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Feb. 2, 2015) – Almas Jiwani, President of the UN Women National Committee Canada will speak at The Canada International Black Women Event (CIBWE) on March 7, 2015, during both a panel discussion on the theme “Making it in Life” as well as at the “Breakfast for Pioneers” which kicks off the…
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