| Women Reaching Women Conference - 12 April 2011

Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive, Oxfam GB, Stephen O'Brien, Parliamentary Under-secretary of State for International Development, and Ruth Bond, NFWI Chair. Photo by: Elliott Franks.
WI members urged the Government to keep their promises on maternal health with the presentation of an 8,000 strong petition to Stephen O'Brien MP, Parliamentary Under-secretary of State for International Development at the WI's Women Reaching Women project's closing conference on 12 April.
WRW has examined the disproportionate impact of global poverty and climate change on women in a unique collaboration between the WI, Oxfam GB and the Everyone Foundation. The project, which was part funded by DfID, has taken an educational approach to empower people to take action on global development and reinvigorated the WI’s international agenda.
Delegates heard from WI members who have been engaging their communities on development issues as well as women leading development efforts around the world. Speakers included Oxfam Chief Executive, Barbara Stocking who offered a personal perspective on the centrality of gender equality to accelerating progress on the Millennium Development Goals and Professor Naila Kabeer, from the School of Oriental and African Studies who reminded delegates that 'injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'
Follow the link to read Stephen O'Brien's speech in full.
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