> Millennia2025, An Action Plan for women's empowerment 

International conference, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris

Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation + The Destree Institute

 

08. Closing plenary session

(MU = Millennia2025 Unesco)

MU30 - Millennia2015 overall conclusions

Françoise Massit-Folléa

Agrégée de Lettres modernes puis enseignant-chercheur en Sciences de l'information et de la communication,

Chair of Millennia2015 Steering committee - Paris, France

Photos (c) Julien Destatte, Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation. 

Extract

 

Given that women's empowerment is a transverse issue, all goods that can be considered as common (urban, environmental, genetical, related to knowledge, etc) are affected. That vision can help redefining prosperity as well as justice. They put into application fundamental principles: emphasis on the durability of the project, insistence on social link and quality of life, participative experiences and learning of the collective action, mobilization of some kind of hybrid political action that involve public authorities, communities and citizen networks at the same time.

 

In that sense and even if it can at first seem to be strange, I think that the women's empowerment project can be part of the logic of "common good", material as immaterial. This is not a theoretical fancy or a new trendy slogan: this is a horizon that can lead to solutions for action.

 

Closing plenary session of the Millennia2015 international conference at the UNESCO in Paris, 04.12.2012.

- Mme Marie-Anne DELAHAUT, Présidente de la Fondation Millennia2025 Femmes et Innovation. 

- Mme Saniye GÜLSER CORAT, Directrice, Division pour l'égalité des genres de l'UNESCO;

- Françoise Massit-Folléa, Chair of the Millennia2015 Steering Committee. 

 

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