The IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics is to co-sponsor a side event at the 52nd UN Commission on the Status of Women, on 3 March 2008 in New York City, USA.

NGO Health Committee,

Working
Group on Girls of the NGO
Committee on UNICEF

Women's Missionary Society
of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

The International Humanist and Ethical Union-Appignani Center
for Bioethics

cordially invite you to attend:

52^nd Commission on the Status of Women – Side
Event

The Impact of Obstetric Fistula and

Economic Empowerment

Date & Place:

March 3, 2008, 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

777 United Nations Plaza
– Church Center, 10th
Floor

(44^th
Street and 1^st Ave.)

New York, NY
10017

Among the Speakers:

Mary
Olive Smith

Director, “A Walk to Beautiful”

The
recent award-winning documentary directed by Mary Olive Smith

about
young women suffering from childbirth injuries in Ethiopia

and

Lorraine Dickerson &

Carolyn
Scavella

Women's Missionary Society
of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

UN - NGO
Representatives

Moderator:

Ana Lita, Ph.D.,
Director

The
IHEU - Appignani Center for Bioethics,

NGO Health Committee Board Member

A
U.N. Grounds Pass
is not required to attend.

Attachment	Size
fistula panel bios.doc	110.5 KB
fistula panel flyer.doc	106 KB