The Inauguration of the Women's World Congress

 

Finally after  preparation of four years that day came on 17th August, 2014. The University of Hyderabad (UoH)  hosting in its campus the 12th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women from 17th August to 22nd August, 2014. 

This was the first time that this Congress is being held in India and the University had won the bid in 2010. The earlier Conferences were held in, Israel( 1981), Netherlands( 1984), Ireland( 1987), USA(1990), Costa Rica (1993), Australia(1996), Norway( 1999), Uganda ( 2002), Korea ( 2005), Spain ( 2008), Canada ( 2011). The Congress in 2014 will be held in Brazil. WWC, 2014, Hyderabad, India, hopes to bring with it a new direction, a new vision and a new tomorrow for women in India and across the globe. The theme of the Congress is “Gender in a changing world”.

About 1,000 speakers are expected to participate in the conference which will have 850 panels from different parts of the world including Brazil, USA UK, France, Germany, Korea, Nepal, Bangladesh, Canada, Israel and across the county on varied themes such as Gender and Culture, gender and History, gender and Management, Violence, Digital divide, Globalisation, women and work, and Gender and law. There are few workshops also on trafficking of women, new Reproductive technologies, Role of education in empowerment of women, feminist research and empowerment of women and the Women’s World Congress –impacts and lessons learnt a 33 years of history. Esther Eillam, from ‘The Hebrew University in Jerusalem’ is the oldest participant at 75 and who has not missed a single congress uptill now.

Dr. Tessy Thomas the Missile woman of India and the chair of DRDO inaugurated the Conference.