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International Service Projects and ZISVAW for 2008-2010ZISVAW ProjectsCombating Physical Violence Against Women and Supporting the Implementation of Protective and Anti-discrimination Laws and Policies in Eygpt Ending Violence Against Women through Community Action in Cambodia .Community-based Center for Housing and Rehabilitation of Women Victims of Violence in Syria International Service ProjectsReduction of Obstetric Fistula ( within the context of Maternal and Newborn Health in Liberia. Safe Cities for Women in Guatamala City, Guatemala, and San Salvador, El Salvador Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Rwanda Zonta International Convention 2010 in San Antonio, TexasFor all the details about and to register for the Zonta International Convention in San Antonio, Texas in late June, 2010, click here.
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Congratulations to Dr Catherine Hamlin (Ethiopia), Zonta International Honorary Member, who is awarded the Right Livelihood Award 2009 “for her fifty years dedicated to treating obstetric fistula patients, thereby restoring the health, hope and dignity of thousands of Africa’s poorest women”. The prize money is EUR 50,000. On December 4th parliamentarians, ambassadors, members of the board and jury of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation and invited guests from civil society, business and media among others will gather at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm to honour the 2009 Award Recipients. The Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson will together with the Vice President of the European Commission Margot Wallström present the Awards to the Laureates. The Award is widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize and is presented annually in Stockholm, Sweden, at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament. The Award is usually shared by four recipients. Often an Honorary Award is given to a person or group whose work the Jury wishes to recognize but who is not primarily in need of monetary support. The others share the prize money of EUR 150,000. The prize money is for ongoing successful work, never for personal use. Dr Hamlin was presented the Zonta International Honorary insignia at a ceremony in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1997 by Past International President Margit Webjörn (then ZI Director) and President Beryl Sten (then D21 Governor) per request by then D24 Governor Jane Wilson O’Brien. At the Convention 2000 in Hawaii Dr Hamlin was a keynote speaker and received at that time a substantial financial contribution from Zonta for her fistula work. To read more about Dr. Catherine Hamlin's background and her pioneering work on treating obstetric fistula, click here . |
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Zonta International President's Message - November, 2009
November 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Zonta International joins the Secretary-General in reaffirming our commitment to women's human rights.See the Secretary-General's Message on the International Davy for the Elimination of Violence Against Women of November 25, 2009. |Message from UN
To further strengthen our commitment and visibility we will make it possible for all Zontians to register at our own website and be a part of the "UNiTE to End Violence Against Women". Further details will be coming soon.
Zonta International President's Message - August, 2009
Dear Governors, International Committee Chairmen,Foundation Ambassadors, Past International Presidents, all Zontians, Please find below some very helpful information in our continued efforts to fund our promises to women who do need our support NOW!
Co-branding Zonta International / UNICEF partnership
UNICEF has produced an excellent DVD called Missing Mothers. As the message may very well not only be related to UNICEF has produced an excellent DVD called Missing Mothers. As the message may very well not only be related to women that will die during pregnancy or childbirth but also to our service project in Rwanda, where deaths of HIV positive mothers have created a wave of orphans.
We are grateful to UNICEF for allowing co-branding with Zonta of this production that will increase the understanding and importance of funding to the international service projects we have promised to support.
Although this DVD is produced by UNICEF and we do relate it to our Rwanda project, the message and statistics of Missing Mothers are as relevant for our service project in Liberia together with UNFPA. Prevention of obstetric fistula is not only repair and reduction through surgery, it is a matter of changing attitudes relating to the underlying reasons such as girl marriage (resulting in too young girls being pregnant) and the practice of FGM (female genital mutilation).
To view the movie, click here. (you need a quicktime player or other media player on your computer. If you don't have one you can download the quicktime player at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/)
Safe Cities Project
Earlier this summer we did share with you the DVD produced by UNIFEM on one of the previous Safe Cities project in Latin America. Please view this as this is one of the models that we are using in the Zonta project Safe Cities in Guatemala City and San Salvador. This model can be usedin a version applicable to any city or village in the world, and can easily be a club project in your own home town. There are dark parks that women will not enter without some fear everywhere.
How right in time we were when choosing the Zonta Safe Cities project as UNIFEM and UN-Habitat in June this year joined their efforts to make cities free from violence against women and girls
To view the movie, click here. (you need a quicktime player or other media player on your computer. If you don't have one you can download the quicktime player at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/)
Beryl Sten is Zonta International President for 2008-2010
Beryl Sten is president of Zonta International. As president, Ms. Sten serves as chief executive officer and exercises a general supervision over the interests and welfare of Zonta International, its districts and clubs. President Sten joined Zonta in 1985 as a charter member of the Zonta Club of Sodertalje. She is currently a member of the Zonta Club of Växjö in Sweden. Since joining Zonta, she has held leadership positions at all levels of the organization including club president, district governor, international convention committee chairman, and international director, vice president and president-elect. President Sten is also active in her community. She has served as chairman of the local association of the Swedish Federation of Private Enterprises; chairman and director of KRUT, an association of enterprises for development of industry and trade in community; and elected member of the County’s Council of Equal Opportunities. She also served as a member of the Information and Communication Council of the Swedish Forest Industry and KVIST, an association of professional women actively engaged in the Swedish Forest Industry. Since beginning her career in the 1960s, President Sten has worked at companies that have been international, either through subsidiaries and/or agents all over the world. These included an international asset and investment company, a patent and trademark bureau and a steel and iron works company. She spent 25 years with ASTRA, today AstraZeneca, including 12 years as Head of the President/Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer’s offices. She then |
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went on to serve as Corporate Manager of Information/Communication and Public Affairs, company secretary and a member of the Executiveommittee over an 11 year period with KLIPPAN a paper producing company with three paper mills and one pulp mill. In 2005, President Sten intended to retire, but instead took up the position of President/CEO. By the end of 2006, the mills had been sold or were closing down and she was able to resign. At the time, she was one of a total of nine female CEOs of companies listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. President Sten is married to Göran Sten, a retired Associate Professor, with a PhD in mathematical statistics. They have one daughter, Birgitta, a certified nurse. Birgitta is a Zontian and is married to Michael Ström, a bank manager. They have one son, Alexander.
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