Women Deliver Coming to Washington

The Women Deliver conference is coming to Washington D.C. June 7-9^th to focus on the theme of “Delivering Solutions for Women and Girls.” Women Deliver, a global advocacy group formed at a 2007 conference, will bring together 4,000 attendees from around the world to focus on the importance of women to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the need to increase funding now, especially towards MDG5 (improving maternal health). The conference features a great list of speakers including: Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, Melanne Verveer, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile, Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, Melinda Gates, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Nicholas Kristof, author and columnist, New York Times.

http://www.womendeliver.org/conferences/-2010-conference/