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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
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
Honourable Patrick Manning
HE Mr Kamalesh Sharma
Simone de Comarmond
Beverly Beckles
Mark Collins
Angela Cropper
Deepening Governance and Democracy Assembly
Victor Hart
Health and HIV and AIDS Assembly
Stephen Lewis
Closing Plenary
Amery Browne
Commonwealth People's Space
Mark Collins Vote of Thanks
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