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Iconic Zimbabwean freedom fighter joins IWD celebrations
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8 March 2013
Senator Sekai Holland, the Zimbabwean Co-Minister of State for National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration and winner of the Sydney Peace Prize 2012 will be a special guest at events to mark International Women’s Day today at AIATSIS in Canberra.
Senator Holland will be the keynote speaker at a sold out public seminar today that precedes AIATSIS’s annual IWD Reception. Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC CVO, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the special guest at the reception which attracts around 160 invited guests.
Who: IWD Seminar Speakers (from 1.30pm-3.30pm)
Senator Sekai Holland
June Oscar - Advocate, activist and CEO of the Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre, Fitzroy Crossing, WA.
Tanya Denning - Channel Manager - National Indigenous Television (NITV)
IWD Reception guests (from 4pm-6pm)
Professor Mick Dodson AM, AIATSIS Chairperson
Her Excellency Governor-General, Ms Quentin Bryce AC CVO
Dr Vio Annandale, Samoa Women's Leadership
Ms Merilyn Tahi, Coordinator, Vanuatu Women's Centre Vanuatu
Mrs Helen Oluyemisi Olukanni (Chairperson of the African Women’s Council of Australia and Wife of His Excellency High Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Nigeria)
Ambassador Jacqueline Zwambila - Zimbabwean Ambassador to Australia & New Zealand,
Ms Koleka Mqulwana - South African High Commissioner,
Heads of Canberra’s National Institutions,
Members of the Diplomatic Community
Members of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
When: Friday 8 March, 2013
IWD Seminar - 1.30pm – 3.30pm
IWD Reception - 4pm - 6pm
Where: AIATSIS, 1 Lawson Crescent, ACTON PENINSULA, Canberra.