Our theme this year focused specifically on the women of Africa and their
activism for empowerment, highlighting work around healthcare, politics and
HIV prevention
Our theme this year focused particularly on women's activism to end war. Speaker Djurdja Knezevic, a Croatian native who has, for the last twenty years, been prominently active in women's initiatives in the former Yugoslavian states addressed her own efforts with Croatian women to bring about peace in that part of the world and internationally.
Our theme this year focused on the 'Comfort Women' of Asia who, during
WWII were forced to endure long term sexual and physical abuse. Speaker
Indai Sajor, co-communer of the United Nations Tribunal on the Asian 'Comfort
Women' was our guest speaker.