International Women Leaders Global Security Summit

New York City

November 15 – 17, 2007

MEDIA ALERT & CREDENTIALING INSTRUCTIONS

New York City will serve as the host city for the historic, first-ever, “International Women Leaders Global Security Summit,” November 15-17, 2007. The international conference will feature current and former women heads of state and government and over 70 high-level women leaders representing more than 40 nations who will tackle the world’s most pressing security issues.

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Hosting the summit are:

• Her Excellency Mary Robinson, President, Ireland (1990-97)
• The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, Prime Minister, Canada (1993)

Heads of state and government expected to participate include:

• Her Excellency Tarja Halonen, President, Finland
• Her Excellency Emily Saidy de Jongh-Elhage, Prime Minister, Netherlands Antilles
• The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister, Jamaica (2006-2007)
• Her Excellency Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President, Latvia (1999-2007)
• Her Excellency Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minster, Ukraine (2005)
• Her Excellency Chandrika Kumaratunga, President, Sri Lanka (1994-2005)
• The Right Honorable Jenny Shipley, Prime Minister, New Zealand (1997-1999)
• Her Excellency Maria Liberia-Peters, Prime Minister, Netherlands Antilles (1984-86, 1988-93)

Other notable guests and participants:

• The Honorable Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary General, UN
• Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli, Senior Adviser on Women’s Empowerment to the Secretary of State, United States (Representing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice)
• The Honorable Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State, United States (1997-2001)
• Ms. Mahnaz Afkhami, Founder and President, Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace, Iran
• Ms. Betty Bigombe, Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace; former Chief Mediator between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army; former Cabinet Minister for Pacification and Reconstruction of Northern and Northeastern Uganda.
• Ms. Beth A. Brooke, Global Vice Chair of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs, Ernst & Young, United States
• Ms. Geena Davis, Academy and Golden Globe Award Winning Actress and Activist
• Ms. Bineta Diop, Executive Director, Femmes Africa Solidarité, Senegal
• Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• The Honorable Swanee Hunt, United States Ambassador to Austria (1993-1997); Chair, Initiative for Inclusive Security
• Ms. Juliette Kayyem, Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Massachusetts, United States
• Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy (Retired), United States Army
• Ms. Angélique Kidjo, Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Children’s Fund, Benin
• The Honorable Olubanke King-Akerele, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Liberia
• Vice President Akua Kuenyehia, First Vice-President, International Criminal Court
• Ms. Laura Liswood, Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders, United States
• The Honorable Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
• The Honorable Carolyn McAskie, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, United Nations
• Dr. Montgomery McFate, Senior Social Science Adviser, Human Terrain System Program, United States Army
• Ms. Rachel Mayanja, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, United Nations
• The Honorable Dr. Sadako Ogata, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1991-2001)
• Dr. Hannah Safran, Co-Founder, Women in Black, Israel
• The Honorable Wijdan Salim, Minister of Human Rights, Iraq
• Dr. Sima Samar, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in the Sudan
• Ms. Sarah Sewall, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University, United States
• Her Excellency Margot Wallström, Vice-President, Institutional Relations and Communication, European Commission
• Ms. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) (2002-2006), Canada
• Ms. Marie Wilson, President and Founder, The White House Project, United States

The Summit is a project of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in partnership with The White House Project, the Council of Women World Leaders and the Women Leaders Intercultural Forum.

ed: this summit should have made headlines; and I read headlines every single day, from an untold number of sources. And it was no where to be found. Where did I find out about it? In the French Press....My "bible", the New York Times, had nothing about the summit - and I even searched the archives. Shame on us..This makes it even more urgent that we get a woman at the helm in this country.

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