Elly Pradervand
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Elly Pradervand, a Swiss citizen of German origin, educated as language teacher, mother of two and grandmother of four, is active for the past 30 years in the field of education for development and advocacy for women and children’s rights.

In 1991, Pradervand founded the Women’s World Summit Foundation - Fondation Sommet Mondial des Femmes - a Swiss Foundation and humanitarian, non-governmental, not-for-profit, non-confessional, international organization with United Nations consultative status ECOSOC, UNFPA, DPI.

Mission: serving the implementation of women and children’s rights and the United Nations development agenda via international campaigns, prize awards, world days, programs and conferences for the empowerment of rural women, prevention of violence against children and women.

Blog Entries by Elly Pradervand

Series on Women Changing the World: Betty Makoni, Zimbabwe

(1) Comments | Posted April 30, 2012 | 5:03 PM

Gender-based violence represents a global problem, especially for the girl child. Girls in many parts of the world are denied safety and their fundamental rights are often ignored. "Girls are discriminated against all over the world for two reasons: because they are children and because they are girls. This means...

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Series on Women Changing the World: Domitila Barrios, Bolivia

(3) Comments | Posted March 30, 2012 | 3:53 PM

"By honoring a woman, we honor a whole nation." With this in mind, the series on Women Changing the World commemorates women from around the world for their commitment to effect change in their local and global community.

For more than 18 years, the Women's World Summit...

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World Conference on Women 2012: Great News for Women of the World!

(1) Comments | Posted March 13, 2012 | 2:23 PM

Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) is thrilled about the UN Announcement on this year's International Women's Day, proposing the convening of a Fifth World Conference on Women in 2015, twenty years after the Beijing 4th International Conference which committed to the advancement of women's human rights.

Given...

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Giving Credit Where It's Due Is Part of Empowering Rural Women

Comments | Posted February 21, 2012 | 4:19 PM

The Women's World Summit Foundation WWSF launched in 1994 the "PRIZE for women's creativity in rural life." which has to-date awarded 375 creative and courageous rural women leaders and organizations in over 100 countries with a cash award of US$ 1000 per laureate.

In spite of all the negative stories...

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