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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
8:45AM to 2:15PM | INSEAD Asia Campus, The Claude and Tuulikki Janssen Auditorium 1 Ayer Rajah Avenue, Singapore 138676 UN Women Singapore and MasterCard invite you to attend the PROJECT INSPIRE: 5 Minutes to Change the World Grand Finals on August 24 Admission is free of charge.
Dear Friends,
Program: 845am: registration | 9am - 12pm: Pitches | 12-145pm: Lunch | 145pm - 215pm: Results and award presentation
We look forward to see you there! Map to this event, please click here.
Thursday, 18 August 2011
7:30pm till late | Blu Jaz Cafe, Level 3, 11 Bali Lane
Admission is free of charge. All donations are welcomed. No registration required. Lift your spirit with music! Lift the spirit of others with your support! Join us for a fun-filled evening with music, energy and inspiration to take action against this crime!  We look forward to see you there! Map to this event, please click here.
Thursday, 15 September 2011
6:30pm to 8:30pm | INSEAD Asia Campus, The Claude and Tuulikki Janssen Auditorium, 1 Ayer Rajah Avenue, Singapore 138676 Admission is free of charge. All donations are welcomed.
Siddharth Kara, a former investment banker and business executive, is an adjunct professor and the first Fellow on human trafficking at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He is also the author of the award-winning book, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, the first of three books he is writing on the subjects of human trafficking and contemporary slavery. Sex Trafficking was named co-winner of the prestigious 2010 Frederick Douglass Award at Yale University for the best non-fiction book on slavery. Kara's is the first book on modern slavery to receive the award. Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, Kara set aside his business career and has traveled to more than twenty countries across six continents to research these crimes, interviewing over one thousand former and current slaves of all kinds, witnessing firsthand the sale of humans into slavery, and confronting some of those who trafficked and exploited them.  Kara currently advises the United Nations and several governments on antislavery research, policy and law. His ongoing work has been regularly covered by CNN, the BBC, and CNBC. He is a regular contributor to the CNN Freedom Project, CNN's year-long initiative, launched in 2011, to expose modern-day slavery around the world. Previously, Kara was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, then ran his own finance and M&A consulting firm. He holds a Law degree from England, MBA from Columbia University, and BA from Duke University. To Register, please click on the following link to RSVP by 5th September: http://www.insead.edu/ Jointly Organized By INSEAD, The Embassy of the United States of America, Singapore and The Singapore National Committee for UN Women  Map to INSEAD, please click here.
Saturday and Sunday, 3 & 4 September 2011
2:30pm to 6:00pm | The Arts House @ Parliament Lane. The Screening Room Entrance Fee : S$10.00 per person / per day. Payment on the day itself.
"Documentaries have tremendous power to reveal truth and can have profound effects on societies and lives." - Paul Kim Come explore the multiple issues women in the region grapple with through a series of insightful documentary films. Talk to filmmakers and experts in the field and find out what you can do to make the difference. Please RSVP or find out more about the films screened before the 31 August 2011 to Ms Mrinalini at mrinalini.venkatachalam@unifem.org.sg with Full Name, Contact Details and Number of Seats required. We look forward to seeing you there!  Jointly Organized By The Singapore National Committee for UN Women, The Embassy of the United States of America, Singapore and The Australian High Commission, Singapore. Map to this event, please click here.
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
7:00pm to 8:30pm | UN Women Office, 2 Nassim Road * Free of Charge for UN Women Members. $5.00 will apply for NON-Members.
Please RSVP to rsvp@unifem.org.sg with your Full Name, Membership Number, Contact Details and the number of seats required. Please feel free to bring your friends and family! Map to UNIFEM Singapore, please click here. |
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PROJECT INSPIRE: 'Live' Pitch Event and Awards Presentation 
SOUND OUT CONCERT: Rhythm with a Reason! FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!
IN CONVERSATION: An Overview of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery - A Talk By Siddarth Kara
UN WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCH
BOOK CLUB : Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Nigerian-born Jesuit priest Akpan transports the reader into gritty scenes of chaos and fear in his rich debut collection of five long stories set in war-torn Africa. An Ex-mas Feast tells the heartbreaking story of eight-year-old Jigana, a Kenyan boy whose 12-year-old sis...ter, Maisha, works as a prostitute to support her family. Jigana's mother quells the children's hunger by having them sniff glue while they wait for Maisha to earn enough to bring home a holiday meal. In Luxurious Hearses, Jubril, a teenage Muslim, flees the violence in northern Nigeria. Attacked by his own Muslim neighbors, his only way out is on a bus transporting Christians to the south. In Fattening for Gabon, 10-year-old Kotchikpa and his younger sister are sent by their sick parents to live with their uncle, Fofo Kpee, who in turn explains to the children that they are going to live with their prosperous godparents, who, as Kotchikpa pieces together, are actually human traffickers. Akpan's prose is beautiful and his stories are insightful and revealing, made even more harrowing because all the horror-and there is much-is seen through the eyes of children.[flash intro] [home] [about us] [gender issues] [make a donation] [be a member] [be a volunteer] [current projects] [upcoming events] [learn more] [contact us] [site map]
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