[cseb national] FW: Dame Nita Barrow Lecture

For last minute UofT students! Lecture starts in 1 hour!

Natalie Helferty

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>Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:57:41 -0500
>Subject: Dame Nita Barrow Lecture
>From: "Transformative Learning Centre" <tlcentre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Please forward. The lecture  is particularly timely because Canadian 
>Mining
>(and other) corporations are laying waste in many parts of the world and 
>the Canadian Government is working very hard right now in New York at the 
>UN to prevent the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People's being 
>ratified. Vicky, as head of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, is

>there now involved in the fray. She is coming back to Toronto for her Dame 
>Nita Barrow Lecture.
>
>Tenth Annual
>DAME NITA BARROW LECTURE
>Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7pm
>Ignatieff Theatre
>University of Toronto
>
>VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ
>Tenth Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitor
>Founder of the Asian Indigenous Women s Network
>Head of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
>
>will speak on
>
>INDIGENOUS WOMEN & FEMINISM:
>HUMAN RIGHTS
>AND
>CANADIAN CORPORATIONS
>
>Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the 10th Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitor,
>~indigenous feminist and activist from the Philippines and Chairperson of 
>the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, will speak on 
>campaign strategies used by indigenous women against the violence caused by

>extractive industries and new technologies. Globalization, which is fuelled

>by corporate greed has spurred new resistance strategies by indigenous 
>women all over the world. They are actively challenging corporations not 
>only at the local level but also at the national and global level. The 
>lecture will highlight the gains of and the obstacles to such campaigns and

>the links of these issues and struggles to feminists in Canada. Actions and

>proposals from governments and corporations on corporate social 
>responsibility and access and benefit sharing will be analysed and 
>critiqued from an indigenous women's perspective. She will present specific

>proposals on how to strengthen solidarity relationships between 
>indigenous~women and feminists in Canada and also between indigenous 
>peoples from the South and those from the North.
>
>For more information on the Visitorship:
>Centre for Women s Studies in Education web site 
>http://www1.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse/
>~
>
>
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