Sonia Trocmé-Le Page - the Head of the European Chapter of EVE-olution Foundation won the prize in the “La Tribune Women's Awards” contest, in the Finance category. “La Tribune” is one of the leading French daily economic and financial newspapers. Sonia received the award on 8 November 2010, at the ceremony organized at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris, in presence of Christine Lagarde (Minister of Economy, Industry and Employment) from the hands of Severin Cabannes (Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Société Générale Group).

Sonia is the Co-Founder & Partner of Global Private Equity, an international placement advisor whose business is to raise insitutional and private money for private equity and infrastructure managers.

Sonia's interview: http://www.latribunewomensawards.fr/video.php?id=3

Nepaleses women entrepreneurs in Paris NOV. 4-7,2010

In partnership with the World Women Trade Fair and the FWEAN the European chapter of EVE-olution Foundation after 21 days in Europe welcomed in Paris 7 Women entrepreneurs exporter of Pashmina, tea, clothing, traditional metal handicraft...to attend workshops in communication, visual graphic, inventory managemement and revenue recognition and guided visits to luxury boutiques and stores.

This program is designed for women from developing nations such as Nepal that have an enormous impact in their county’s economy. Nepalese Pasmina exporter said that for her paying taxes means sponsoring their goverment to care more about services given to the population such as water and electricity.

Pramila Acharya Rijal,President-FWEAN Vice Chair-SAARC Chamber Women Entrepreneurs Council expressed appreciation for undertaking the initiation on building the capacity of the women entrepreneurs and look forward to being connected with the next part of the program involving business coaching focus export in Nepal.

For more information contact partner@eve-olution.org

Dilma Rousseff Brazil President

Dilma Rousseff became the first woman as an elected Brazil President (Brazil is the largest economy in Latin America).

Rousseff won 55.8 percent of valid votes while the opposition candidate, Jose Serra, pocketed 44.2 percent of the vote. Rousseff is scheduled to be sworn in as president of the country on January 1, 2011.

Dilma Rousseff said in his victory speech on Monday (1 / 11) "we will not rest while many Brazilian citizens are starving" said Rousseff. "Eradication of extreme poverty is my goal."

UN WOMEN
September 14, 2010: The United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, and appointed Ms. Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile, as the head of UN Women being in charge of United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Officially starting her appointment in January 2011.

September 13, 2010-09-15: Irina Bokova, Director-General of the UNESCO invited Rachel Mayanja – United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women and Aminata Toure, Chief, Gender, Human Rights and Culture Branch, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to present the UN Women. Invited at this event Nancy V. Gomez, President of the EVE-olution Foundation speaks up responding to need express by Mrs. Toure for more “economical empowerment”. Ambassador Martina Nibbeling-Wrießnig, Permanent Delegate of Germany to UNESCO pointing out the need for media support.

More information: UN Women

More information: UNESCO-about UN Women

Source: UN Global Compact Webcast

Past information about the UN Global Compact on bbbwew

The Eve-olution Foundation was created in August 12, 2002. 8 years later, our "poppy" year we wish you all a Happy Birthday!

This picture was taken in Afghanistan and edited by Wang Guanqun.
Source: Xinhua/Zabi Tamanna

Namibian Women in a Changing World. August,11-13 2010 women entrepreneurs, leaders and manager will meet in Windhoek will meet and share professional and personal experience to growth. The 2010 Namibian Women Summit (NWS) will also be the occasion to include the launch of House of Women (HOW) by the Founding Father of the Namibian Nation, President Sam S Nujoma. HOW is a new non-governmental organisation established by NWS. It is a platform for women empowerment working with specific core functions, such as capacity building, networking, and smart partnerships.

Expected speachers:
Madam Penehupifo Pohamba, First Lady of the Republic of Namibia
Hon. Doreen Sioka, Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare
H.E. Yvette Myakayaka-Manzini, South African High Commissioner
H.E. Dennise Mathieu, Ambassador of the United States of America

More about NWS: http://www.namibian-women-summit.org

50 African women entrepreneurs lead by Margaret Galabe, Executive Director of the World Women Trade Fair are travelling the world to exhibit and sell their creations. Those courageous women are contributing in their counties to provide new homes, education, and health care for their families and their communities. Coming from the Indian Ocean-EFOIS, Victory Women –Namibia, Namayiana Maasai Women Group Kenya, Gabon Arts, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Namibia, Gabon, Ghana, Niger, Burkina Faso, Seychelles, Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo Republic. They will jointly participate to the 1st Women of Africa Marketplace celebrating women entrepreneurs of Africa. This Marketplace will be held on July 30th through August 15th 2010 in Vienna, Austria alongside the famous event the Afrika-Tage-Wein

Warsaw June 18-19: “Women for Poland, Poland for Women” - was the main motto of 2nd Congress of Polish Women (II Kongres Polskich Kobiet) that took place in Warsaw. The event gathered over 3000 of professional polish women.
Joanna Bouissou representing EVE-olution Foundation Inc. at the Congress met with Mrs Henryka BOCHNIARZ, President, Boeing Central & Eastern Europe, co-founder of this initiative, Mrs Lidia ADAMSKA, Member of Management Board, Warsaw Stock Exchange, and Mrs Dorota WARAKOMSKA, Journalist and co-founder of Polish Professional Women Network (PWNet). Many topics were discussed during the panel sessions: combining professional carrier with motherhood; women in business: equality, diversity and efficiency; emancipation of women and evolution of men; Poland and Union after the crisis; health care system, etc. The important place in the debates took the issue of introducing gender parities on voting lists what shows the strong will of Polish women to take an active role in political life regardless of their political views.
The congress finished just the day before the first round of presidential elections and its closing manifesto was “time for elections, time for women, time for solidarity”.

The largest network of women entrepreneurs, in the Indian Ocean (EFOI Network) involving women entrepreneurs mainly from Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Reunion; met from 6 to 8 July 2010 for the 5th annual meeting under the banner of sustainable development and exportation. Qualified by Susan M 'Panda, Representative of the African Development Bank as a “success for the Region”.Several organizations agreed to support women entrepreneurs from the Indian Ocean among them the Association of Women Entrepreneurs Worldwide (FCEM), African Centre for Women Entrepreneurs (CAEF), the Indian Ocean Commission (COI) and the EVE –olution Foundation. As Ms. Fatoumia Ali Bazi, representative of the COI said “now nothing about us, without us”

Website: EFOI Network

United Nations Global Compact and Accenture conducted the largest survey of 766 CEOs around the globe on the topic of sustainability presented during the Leaders Summit in NYC, 24-25 June, 2010.


93% of CEOs believe that sustainability issues will be critical to the future success of their business.

More about the 4 women CEO in this survey:
Martha Tilaar, Chairwoman & Founder, Martha, Tilaar Group
Mavi S. Isibor, CEO, Poise Nigeria Limited
Sung-joo Kim, Chairperson and CEO, Sungjoo
Barbara Krumsiek, President and CEO, Calvert Group Ltd.

More about the survey: A New Era of Sustainability

Presenting Constanzia Diaz, CEO of Hecho para Ti (Chili-Latin America) empowering women and entrepreneurs!

"I began as an individual idea where personally made, exhibited and sold my jewelry and accessories. As they grow this idea, with timing adjusted and the need to comply properly with my clients always, I went to different friends who were in their houses without paid work to participate in certain parts of the development process of my accessories. In 2008 I applied for a seed capital of SERCOTEC, which I won. The project was to develop the website www.hechoparati.cl. During the workshops, training courses and I got to meet other winners of this capital seizing the opportunity to promote the idea of turning done for you in a window or portal of exposure for women's labor-oriented design with innovative ideas and competitive products very good bill and will also have an ecological component."

Awareded Mujeres Empresarias 2008, Women of the Year by Terra 2009.

Her tip for women starting a company ask yourself not "what you do" but "Why you do it"!

Her dream: More social media among women

Interview in Spanish on Radio Tierra (mujeres en conexion social)

Mar 15, 2010: Deutsche Telekom is first Dax 30 company to introduce women's quota

* 30 percent of management positions worldwide to be filled by women by end of 2015
* Laying foundations with quotas throughout entire talent chain
* René Obermann: "Categorical necessity, not enforcement of misconstrued egalitarianism"
* Minister for Family Affairs Kristina Schröder: "Deutsche Telekom is setting a fine example"

Taking female advancement seriously: Deutsche Telekom is the first Dax 30 company to introduce a women's quota. By the end of 2015, thirty percent of upper and middle management positions in the company are to be filled by women. This regulation applies worldwide. In addition to broadening its talent pool, Deutsche Telekom is also expecting to add value to the company in the long term with greater diversity at management level.

(source Deutsche Telekom)
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Unlocking Access to the Boardrooms
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW
Published: May 27, 2010

BEIJING — For businesswomen gathered at the 20th Global Summit of Women here last week, the title of a talk on the final day of the three-day event, “Working Effectively With Men,” was irresistible.

Women have wondered how to do that all their lives, the conference's organizer, Irene Natividad, had joked earlier in an interview. “I've been at this for two decades, and it keeps popping up,” the longtime women?s rights advocate said. “So I thought, on this, our 20th summit, I'll have a stab at it.”

Around a century after women won the right to enter parliaments in countries ranging from Azerbaijan to the United States, they are still greatly underrepresented in corporate boardrooms, according to a preliminary report released at the conference by Corporate Women Directors International, a group based in Washington that promotes women in business, and the World Bank's International Finance Corp.

For a web link to this article, click here

For the first time in U.S. history, women have overtaken men in the
workplace. More specifically, they've overtaken men in*professional* roles.
As of 2009, women represented half of all U.S. workers and are the primary
or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American households. That's a far
cry from1967, when women made up only one-third of all U.S. workers.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Women-Rule---Women-Overtake-Men-As-the-Dominant-Gender-of-the-US-Labor-Force&id=2892166

"How can we share innovating thinking to make the world a better place?"
By Bola Olabisi, Founder and CEO of the Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network

> Click to see video

We are sorry to inform you that Marie-Odile Sockath Yemadje our great friend, former president of the REFEG (women entrepreneur association in Gabon)and serial entrepreneurs is no longer with us, she dead on Sunday April 11th.

Let's follow her work ! and remeber her as a fighter for life!

She will be buried in Pointe Noire (Congo) on April 24th , 2010

Program :
Saturday, April 17 - Ceremony of Meditation in Paris
Wednesday, April 21: Exposition of the body in Paris
Saturday, April 24: burial at Pointe-Noire Congo

For Further details concerning the different places please contact:
Nina : 00 33 6 24 92 53 78
Anne-Claire : 00 33 6 28 02 17 60
anneyemadje@yahoo.fr

Women in the World March 12-14, 2010 NYC



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Together with 12 Women Business associations the Eve-olution Foundation (Europe) is initating a Women Delegation to go to Beijing to attend the 20° Global Summit of Women. Some delegate will also attend the Shanghai Universal Expo.

More information (in french)