Women’s Presence at the Worldwide Social Polycentric Forum of Bamako 2006 Authors Maryan Ismail Keywords: Africa, immigration, human rights, women’s rights Abstract This text is a testimony of the long-awaited arrival of women to worldwide forums like the one which took place in Bamako. This event is a victory, not only because it pores the growth of feminine associative organizations in Africa, but also because feminine perspective was a constant motto at the conference. Socio-economic progress, human rights and problems in gender relationships were discussed there. The local NGO Mali Enjeu and associations from Italy, France, Spain, Guinea, Togo, and Mali participated in the conference. Its main goal was to consolidate the bonds between female immigrants in the West and African women, to defend more forcfully human rights and social issues like poverty in Africa, traffic of women, new sanitary and educational projects, amongst others. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-14 Issue No. 12 (2006): Feminismos del siglo XXI Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
