State of the World Forum

Sunday, November 1 2:48pm PST

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	9:30AM -12:30PM

		Plenary: ‘Our Common Enterprise’ Town-Hall Meeting
		Stephen Covey, moderator; Co-Chairman, Franklin Covey Company Ged Davis, Head, Scenario Processes and Applications, Shell International Ltd. Daniel Yankelovich*, Chairman, Public Agenda Foundation
	12:30PM -3:15PM

		Luncheon: Investing in Women
		Investing in women is a profound and catalytic strategy to address our most critical global issues and advance humanity. Through stories and testimonies from outstanding men and women leaders from around the world, the closing event will illuminate how empowering and investing in women accelerates the advancement of many social, economic and environmental goals. The power of economic independence for women and the impacts of partnerships with the private sector will serve as the central theme for the event. The program will include first hand accounts of the advantages of economic opportunity for women and how it elevates their status and influence within their communities and allows for the betterment of their families, communities and countries. Participants and Honorees Include: Mahnaz Afkhami, moderator; Minister of State for Women's Affairs, Iran (1976 - 1978) Mirai Chatterjee, General Secretary, Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), India Lawrence Chickering, Founder, International Center for Economic Growth; Author, "Beyond Left and Right" Lynne Franks, Founder, Globalfusion, Inc. Patricia Giles, Chair, World Health Organization, Global Commission on Women's Health Theresa Loar, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State Gertrude Mongella, Secretary General, UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing Catherine Muther, Founder and President, The Three Guineas Fund Abby Napeahi, Native Hawaiian Elder Kazimiera Prunskiene, Prime Minister, Lithuania 1991 Leticia Shahani, Member, Philippine Senate Rayona Sharpnack, Consultant, Generative Leadership Group Lynne Twist, Co-Chair, Board of Directors, State of the World Forum Sima Wali, Founder, Refugee Women in Development Closing Celebration: ‘Fashion for Development’ Bibi Russell*, Founder, Bibi Productions The "Investing in Women" closing event includes a premier fashion show by Bangladeshi designer and international model, Bibi Russell. Fashion for Development demonstrates how micro-financed business has revolutionized life in many rural and poverty stricken villages around the world. Inspired and produced by local weavers, Bibi's fashions are modeled by a troupe of Bangladeshi youth. This show has been presented throughout Europe to tremendous media acclaim and is presented for the first time in North America at the 1998 State of the World Forum.

"The Taleban is using culture and religion to keep women down."
--Sima Wali (on Afghanistan)

NUCLEAR ELIMINATION: The SWF helped facilitate a statement from 117 former world leaders, including Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter, calling for the Nuclear Weapons States to declare their support for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons.
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