MONTREAL/August 1, 2000—
Testifying to the expanding role played by women in active politics and in political science, two Featured Sessions of the XVIIIth World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) will highlight women who are breaking the gender barriers in the world of politics and who are elevating democratic values to higher levels.
The IPSA World Congress, being held at the Quebec City Convention Centre in Quebec City from August 1 to 5, 2000, will host a Featured Session entitled “Nurturing Democracy: Women in Politics” on Wednesday August 2 at 6 pm. Speakers at this session will include the Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada and current Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders, Dr. Achola Pala Okeyo who is Senior Policy Advisor on Gender to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP/Africa) and Professor Laura Guzman Stein from the University of Costa Rica.
On Thursday August 3 at 6 pm, the Congress will host a session entitled “Nurturing Democracy: East and South” which will feature a smuggled video speech by Aung San Suu Kyi. Democratically elected leader of Burma, she is under effective house arrest by the military regime since 1988. Bo Hla-Tint, Minister for North and South American Affairs for the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (in exile) will speak at this session. This session will be completed by presentations by two leading intellectuals on Korean and Latin American democracy, Dr. Dalchoong Kim (Sejong Institute, Republic of Korea) and Professor Guillermo O’Donnell (University of Notre Dame, USA).
The public and the media are invited to attend these and all other sessions of the Congress.
The IPSA World Congress is held every three years. 1,800 political scientists from 80 countries will participate in 400 sessions being held at the Congress. For this, the 50th anniversary of the first IPSA World Congress, the theme of the Congress is “World Capitalism, Governance and Community: Toward a Corporate Millennium?” Looking at the main issues facing the world today, the Congress will focus on the impact of globalization at the local, national and international levels.
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