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12-17 December 2003, 9h00-17h00
Ecumenical Centre, 150 route de Ferney, Geneva
(Open to the public, admission free)
The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA) will host a critically acclaimed photo exhibition by P. Sainath entitled “Women and work in rural India: struggles for life”.
Without sentimentality or sensationalism, the exhibition captures the stories of hardship and pain as well as the stories of hope and courage of poor rural women. Before coming to Geneva, it was shown in village squares, outside factories, on the edges of mines and quarries, at bus and railway stations, and in school cafeterias and corridors all over India.
The journalist and photographer P. Sainath will participate at an opening public seminar on
“Women, globalization and rural poverty: making the connections”
to be held on
12 December 2003, 12h30-14h00,
at the Ecumenical Centre (Salles II and III)
The seminar aims to briefly show the links between economic globalization and the feminization of rural poverty. Panellists include Daniela Perez Gavidia (International Gender and Trade Network) and Aruna Gnanadason (WCC).
About P. Sainath
Mumbai-based P. Sainath is Asia's leading development journalist. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen describes him as "one of the world's greatest experts on famine and hunger". Sainath has won numerous awards for his work, including the European Commission's Natali Prize in 1994. In November 2001, he won the Boerma Journalism Prize from the United Nations Food and Agricutural Organization.
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