The IGDS will be hosting the 8th Biennial Lucille Mathurin Mair Public Lecture on Thursday, April 9, 2015,  at 6 pm.The Lecture will be delivered by Her Excellency Mme,Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission.  Her Lecture entitled: 'The African Year of Women and 20 Years after Beijing'. She will reflect on the progress made by women since the 1995 Beijing Platform of Action and challenges to promote gender equality around the world.This biennial lecture was inaugurated in 1998 to honour the life and work our founder Dr Lucille Mathurin Mair who died in 2009.  Dr Mathurin-Mair was the first Coordinator of the Institute (formerly Centre) for Gender and Development Studies. She was also a distinguished Jamaican diplomat, historian, and women’s activist.  She served as: Jamaica’s Representative to the United Nations during the UN Decade for Women 1975-1985; a Senator; a Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and as the first Director of the Women’s Desk in Jamaica.
RSVP by Friday April 3, 2015 to Ingrid Nicely: 977-7365/935-8644 OR Kadine Marshall: 927-1913/935-8494 
<igdsmona@uwimona.edu.jm>
 
 
 

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