Universitat de València will hold the conference ‘Democracia, cuidados y mujeres: un intercambio de perspectivas entre la Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres y España’ (‘Democracy, care and women: perspective exchange between the Women Interamerican Commission and Spain’) on Thursday 23 October, a meeting gathering international experts to reflect on the shared challenges of equality, democracy and care.
The event is organised by Universitat de València, the Spanish Embassy for the Organisation of American States (OEA) and the Women Interamerican Commission (CIM), and will take place at the La Nau Paraninfo starting at 6:00 p.m. (there will be a coffee break at 5:30 p.m.).
The round table will welcome Carmen Montón, Alejandra Mora and Suzanne Serruya, reference figures in the area of public policies, health care and international women rights.
- Carmen Montón is a Spain Ambassador for the Organisation of American States (OEA) and exminister of Health Care, Consume and Social Well-being. Her career is tightly related with promoting gender equality, public health care and social rights.
- Alejandra Mora Mora is the Women Interamerican Commission (CIM) executive secretary of the OEA.
- Suzanne Serruya is Head of the Latin American Centre of Perinatology, Women Health and Reproductive Health (CLAP/SMR) of the Panamerican Organisation of Health (OPS), and specialist in public health care and sexual and reproductive rights.
Former full-time university professor and pioneer of research on care, unpaid work and invisible economy María Ángeles Durán will join the conference as one of the most influential voices of contemporary spanish sociology, honoris causa doctor by Universitat de València.
This gathering aims to strengthen the cooperation ties between Spain and America to build more equal and democratic societies where care is recognised as a crucial point of social and political life.
This activity has free access but previous inscription is mandatory through this link: https://encuestas.uv.es/index.php/429818?lang=es
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