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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:navy">Women's World Summit Foundation - WWSF</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkorange">Announcement</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
</span><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkgreen">The</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkgreen">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">WWSF Kit "17 Days of activism</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">for the empowerment of rural women leaders and their constituencies 1-17 Oct. 2019"
</span></strong>is online.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:125%"><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkgreen">Rural Women Rise and Claim your Rights!</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
Every year since 2015 we publish the 17 Days campaign for the empowerment of rural women and their communities to rise and claim their rights by addressing foremost the local- and state governments with demands for urgent action to implement the universal adoption
of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) as well as the newly adopted post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, and in particular SDG Goal 1, 5 and
13.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkgreen">Dear Friends and Partners,</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">We are happy to present to you the 9<sup>th</sup> edition of the WWSF </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkgreen">“17 Days of activism for the empowerment of rural
women and their communities 1-17 October".</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">Please remember that the Rural Women Empowerment Kit is central to your campaign activities. For this reason we stress that you familiarize yourself with new information contained in the Kit, including
additional information about new ideas for general action and specific ideas about what men can do and what youth can do.<br>
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You are free to choose and develop your own action plan and events, be it at a local, national or international level. Please note that you remain completely free to focus your campaign on the theme(s) of your choice. All we ask is to serve your community for
urgent action! <strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Chose a theme, create change, and move others into action with you!
</span></strong>You are the key to creating a more just and compassionate world.<br>
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This year, we invite you to mark <strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">three particular days</span></strong>: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkgreen">1) 15 October - International Day of Rural Women,</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">mobilize your community, celebrate the 2019 prizewinners and lobby your governments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkgreen">2) 16 October - World Food Day - FAO,
</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">as overweight and obesity rates soar worldwide, this year, <strong><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">World Food Day</span></i></strong> will call for action to make healthy
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</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:darkgreen">3) 17 October - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty,</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020"> </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020"> presents
an opportunity to acknowledge the effort and struggle of people living in poverty, a chance for them to make their concerns heard, and a moment to recognize that poor people are the first ones to fight against poverty.<br>
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We look forward to your </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://woman.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2771949988f4f7f4fd1e99847&id=12ab5085b9&e=9334edbd78" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007C89">registrations online</span></a><span style="color:#202020"> and
will stay connected on a daily basis during the 17 Days campaign via LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Once you have registered your program and action plan, we will make available to you our Media Pack. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">To read the Empowerment Kit, please </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://woman.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2771949988f4f7f4fd1e99847&id=933597d63c&e=9334edbd78" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007C89">click
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">To submit your program of action, you need to </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://woman.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2771949988f4f7f4fd1e99847&id=61db354b9f&e=9334edbd78" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal">login
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">If you have a problem, contact us directly at </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:wdpca@wwsf.ch"><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal">wdpca@wwsf.ch</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">Dear Friends and Partners,<br>
It is crucial to increase the empowerment of rural women around the world to ensure that the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda becomes the norm for everyone.<br>
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The SDG Target # 1 and # 5 are the most important Gaols we base our work on. We thank you for being again a partners with the WWSF campaign and look forward to hearing from you</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">In partnership,<br>
Cordially yours,<br>
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Elly Pradervand, WWSF President and CEO<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.woman.ch"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">www.woman.ch</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020"> -
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:wwsf@wwsf.ch"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">wwsf@wwsf.ch</span></a><span style="color:#202020"><br>
</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">Tel: +41 (0) 22 738 66 19</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020">
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Foundation (WWSF), created in 1991 in Geneva, Switzerland, as a not-for-profit, humanitarian, international organization for the realization of women and children's rights, mobilizes via its annual campaigns, round tables, world days and prize awards civil
society action to catalyze increased action for change to reach the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030. Use and share our annual campaign Kits to empower you and others into bold action.<br>
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