SI Fremantle – International Women’s Day Breakfast

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Three of our members attended the Internal Womans Day breakfast on Friday 11th March at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. The breakfast was organised by UN Women, which is the United Nations entity for gender equality and empowerment of women. We sponsored two Year 11 students from South Fremantle Senior High School, Holly Baliknski and Ashleigh Taylor, to attend the breakfast.

There were a number of key note speakers including Manual Omar who is the current Director of Iraq programs at the United States Institute for Peace. She has worked extensively in the Middle East and her talk gave us an insight into the role of women in post conflict, peace mediation and nation building.

There were over 900 people at the breakfast, mainly women, but also a few men and it was good to see that some of the schools had brought along both male and female students. This reflects the importance of educating both girls and boys in the issues facing the world’s women.