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2011 Commonwealth People's Forum, Perth, Western Australia

Opening Ceremony

Hon. Julia Gillard MP
Prime Minister of Australia

Madam Simone de Comarmond
Commonwealth Foundation Chair

Opening Plenary

Ingrid Srinath
Secretary General, CIVICUS

Phiroshaw Camay
Chair, Commonwealth Civil Society Advisory Committee

Gender and Women's Rights Workshop

Hon Kate Ellis MP
Minister for the Status of Women, Australia  

Ms Oley Dibba-Wadda
Executive Director, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Kenya - Keynote address

Dr Sylvia Anie
Director, Social Transformation Programmes Division, Commonwealth Secretariat

Esther Eghobamien
Head, Gender Section, Social Transformation Programmes Division, Commonwealth Secretariat

Doris Bingley
Hon General Secretary, National Council of Women, Malta

Mary Okumu
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

Migration Plenary

Jill Iliffe
Executive Secretary, Commonwealth Nurses Federation

Farooq Sobhan
Patron of the Ramphal Centre and Commissioner, Ramphal Commission on Migration and Development

2010

Commonwealth HIV and Human Rights Lecture
30 November
Opening remarks
Dr Mark Collins
Director, Commonwealth Foundation

1st Commonwealth Conference “Citizenship & the Commonwealth”
10-12 November 
Opening remarks
Dr Mark Collins
Director, Commonwealth Foundation

The Significance of Citizenship in the Contemporary Commonwealth
Dr Mark Collins
Director, Commonwealth Foundation

6th Diversity Matters Conference
23 September 
Social Cohesion and the Arts in Commonwealth Countries
Opening remarks
Dr Mark Collins
Director, Commonwealth Foundation

Zimbabwe Infrastructure Investment Conference
23 July
Strengthening links with civil society through the Commonwealth
Dr Mark Collins
Director of Commonwealth Foundation

18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference
28 June
Opening remarks
Dr Mark Collins
Director, Commonwealth Foundation

Partners' Forum 9WAMM, Barbados
4 June 
Opening remarks
Dr Mark Collins
Director, Commonwealth Foundation

Opening remarks
Ms Simone de Comarmond
Chair, Commonwealth Foundation

Commonwealth Lecture 2010
28 April
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Opening Remarks
Dr Mark Collins
Director, Commonwealth Foundation

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010
12 April
India International Centre, New Delhi
Opening Remarks
Dr Mark Collins
Director, Commonwealth Foundation

2009 Commonwealth People's Forum, Trinidad and Tobago
22-25 November

Opening Ceremony

Honourable Patrick Manning

HE Mr Kamalesh Sharma

Simone de Comarmond

Beverly Beckles

Opening Plenary

Mark Collins

Angela Cropper

Deepening Governance and Democracy Assembly

Victor Hart

Health and HIV and AIDS Assembly

Stephen Lewis

Closing Plenary

Amery Browne

Beverly Beckles

Simone de Comarmond

Commonwealth People's Space

Mark Collins
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