GlobalPOWER® [Partnership Of Women Elected/Appointed Representatives] is creating sustainable, long term partnerships among a select group of elected women leaders from around the world. US participants will include a small group of state legislators who have graduated from the Center’s Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators.
The Center launched the GlobalPOWER® program in 2006 with a focus on international trafficking of women and girls as a global human rights crisis. Women and girls represent 80 percent of the 600,000-plus people who are trafficked throughout the world and forced into involuntary servitude in sweatshops, households, agricultural fields, and brothels.
The GlobalPOWER® experience helps elected women leaders develop creative policy options and strategies to implement them.
To learn more about each of the
GlobalPOWER® classes and to see photos, click on the link for the appropriate class.
The GlobalPOWER® Class of 2009 included
Members of Parliament from Bahrain, Burundi, Dominica, Namibia, Pakistan and Zambia, a Member of the East African Legislative Assembly (representing Uganda), and two US women state legislators (from Florida and Utah) who are graduates of the Center’s annual Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators. The Class of 2009 met in Washington, DC from May 31 through June 5, 2009.
The GlobalPOWER® Class of 2007 included five women Members of Parliament, a Minister of Labour, Public Administration and Empowerment, one Assemblywoman from the Ho Municipal Assembly in Ghana and three graduates of the Center’s Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators. The Class of 2007 met in Washington, DC from May 7 - 11, 2007.
The GlobalPOWER® Class of 2006 included eight women Members of Parliament, a Minister of Women’s Affairs and four graduates of the Center’s Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators. The Class of 2006 met in Washington, DC from May 31 through June 3, 2006.
Click here to read GlobalPOWER® – Report of the First Two Years: 2006 and 2007.
GlobalPOWER®
Advancing Women’s Leadership in Global AIDS Policymaking
In 2008, building upon the revolutionary GlobalPOWER® model, the Center launched a partnership with the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) and the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) to bring together women Members of Parliament and Ministers, women living with HIV/AIDS and NGO leaders, and women journalists from around the world to build new global partnerships to promote woman-centered HIV/AIDS policy in their countries.
Click here to read about the 2008 program that brought women
leaders – from Kenya, India, and Mexico – to Washington, DC and New York. Plus learn more about the 2009 South Asia Initiative on Women and HIV/AIDS
that will bring women leaders from around the region to Washington, DC to create powerful new partnerships.
