The IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics is to co-sponsor a side event at the 52nd UN Commission on the Status of Women, on 3 March 2008 in New York City, USA.
NGO Health Committee,
Working
Group on Girls of the NGO
Committee on UNICEF
Women’s Missionary Society
of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
The International Humanist and Ethical Union-Appignani Center
for Bioethics
cordially invite you to attend:
52nd Commission on the Status of Women – Side
Event
The Impact of Obstetric Fistula and
Economic Empowerment
Date & Place:
March 3, 2008, 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM
777 United Nations Plaza
– Church Center, 10th
Floor
(44th
Street and 1st Ave.)
New York, NY
10017
Among the Speakers:
Mary
Olive Smith
Director, “A Walk to Beautiful”
The
recent award-winning documentary directed by Mary Olive Smith
about
young women suffering from childbirth injuries in Ethiopia
and
Lorraine Dickerson &
Carolyn
Scavella
Women’s Missionary Society
of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
UN – NGO
Representatives
Moderator:
Ana Lita, Ph.D.,
Director
The
IHEU – Appignani Center for Bioethics,
NGO Health Committee Board Member
A
U.N. Grounds Pass
is not required to attend.