Speakers for the Advancing Women Peacemakers Project 10/18 Fresno WILPF

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You are invited to a

Dessert Potluck at Margaret’s home

4247 N. Thorne (near Ashlan)

On Monday, October 18th at 6:30 pm

To Welcome our Speakers for the

Advancing Women Peacemakers WILPF Projec

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Jane Addams birth and the 10th Anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the first legal document to protect women and children in war zones. Resolution 1325 promotes an equal role for women in bringing and maintaining peace in our global community. It acknowledges and supports women’s active engagement in conflict transformation on theinternational,national and community levels. We have a great opportunity to hear these two women who have been working actively to bring women to the peace table, sharing their experiences and insights.



Ms. Numuhoza is from Rwanda. She holds a degree in African Studies and Development

Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Ms. Numuhoza is the founder of Women Peacemakers for Great Lakes Region of

Africa, a London based women’s group with the aim of fostering acknowledgement of

the tragedies of the people of Rwanda, healing and then moving towards sustainable

Peace and Reconciliation. Ms. Numuhoza is going to share the stories of women in

the Great Lakes Region of Africa in the context of implementation of the provisions of

the UN SCR1325 for the advancement of women’s human rights and establishment of

sustainable peace in the area. She is the mother of five year-old twin boys.

With degrees, from Nagpur University in India,



Sushma Pankule is currently a senior

lecturer in Adv. V.R. Manoher Institute of Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology

in India. In addition to a distinguished teaching career Ms Pankule is a social

activist having served as President of WILPF Nagpur branch and Vice-President

of National WILPF of India, where she presented a paper on ”The Role of Women

in Self Guarding the Environment,”and later attended the UN 14th Convention on

Climate Change in Poznan, Poland. Ms Pankiule’s social work is focused on addressing

the problem of the poor status of women in India in the context of Resolution

1325 for the advancement of women’s human rights and establishment of sustainable

peace.