Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:32:40 -0300
Sender: biodiv-l@bdt.org.br
From: "Mustalish, Roger W." <rmustalish@wcupa.edu>
(by way of Stas Burgiel <bionet@igc.org>)
To: Multiple recipients of list <biodiv-l@bdt.org.br>
Subject: FW: Indigenous women's issues request
Greetings from the ACEER Foundation. I am posting this note originally sent
to the Latin American Environmental Network as it may be of interest to you.
Thank you.
Roger Mustalish, Ph.D., President, ACEER Foundation
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From: Mustalish, Roger W.
To: elanpost
Subject: Indigenous women's issues request
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 1996 3:57PM
Dear ELANeros,
The Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER)
Foundation will be sponsoring in November 1997 in Iquitos, Peru an
international forum on the role of indigenous women in rainforest
conservation. The forum is envisioned as a mechanism for rural women
in Amazonia to meet with their counterparts from other parts of Latin
America and others throughout the world to explore the changing nature
of their roles in families, education, local economy and natural
resources decision-making; an important aspect will be the delineation
of incentives/disincentives associated with the empowerment of local
women in conservation. The forum will, hopefully, provide an
opportunity for local women as well as prefessionals involved in women's
studies and/or Latin American studies to interact. The ACEER
Foundation, and its Environmental Advisory Board, will be organizing the
sessions and developing the itinerary for the forum; it is still in the
planning stages and participation/co-sponsorship by other institutions,
ngo's, etc with mutual interest is welcome, as are the advice and
recommendations of all ELANeros.
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Please direct your interest directly to Yvonne Mejia at the Foundation,
1-800-255-8206; fax 205-428-1714 or via e-mail through Foundation President,
Dr. Roger Mustalish at rmustalish@wcupa.edu Thanks in advance for your
assistance. Progress on the forum will be posted regularly; Spanish text of
this memo to follow shortly. Thanks.
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