FAFIA would like to thank all of those who submitted applications to participate on the funded Canadian NGO delegation to the Beijing+10 meeting in New York. The independent selection committee received many excellent applications and found it very difficult to select delegates. The candidates who were selected to participate are the following:

Michèle Asselin, Présidente, Fédération des Femmes du Québec (FFQ)(Montréal, QC)

Suki Beavers, Senior Advisor, Human Rights, Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) (Ottawa, ON)

Suzanne Bouclin, Researcher, National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL)(Ottawa, ON)

Aimée Clark, Member, International & Women’s Committee, National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) (Fort Smith, NWT)

Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Steering Committee Member, Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) & Professor, St.Mary?s University (Ferguson’s Cove, NS)

Mirlande Demers, Member, Youth & Women?s Committee of Amnesty International (St-Jean Chrysostome, QC)

Mélissa Dubé, Member, Development & Peace Committee of Laval University,(Cap-Saint-Ignace, QC)

Marie Frawley-Henry, Assembly of First Nations(AFN) (Ottawa,ON)

Agathe Gaulin, Président, National Federation of French Canadian Women (Comox, BC)

Ellen Gabriel, President, Québec Native Women (Kahnawake, QC)

Sheila Genaille, President, Métis National Council of Women (Ottawa,ON) (St. Albert, AB)

Charlotte Hrenchuk, Coordinator, Yukon Status of Women (Whitehorse, YT)

Beverley Jacobs, President, Native Women’s Association of (NWAC)(Ottawa, ON)

Beryle Jones, Congress of Black Women of Canada (Winnipeg,MB) Congress of Black Women of Canada c/o 836 Ellice Ave. Winnipeg, MB R3G 0C2, Canada. 

Nuzhath Leedham, Executive Director, Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre (Toronto, ON)

Celeste McKay, Policy Analyst, Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) (Winnipeg, MB)

Lise Martin, Executive Director Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) (Ottawa, ON)

Sharon McIvor, Co-chair, Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (Merritt,BC)

Marie-Pascaline Menono, Coordinator, Halte-Femmes Montréal-Nord(Montréal, QC)

Priscilla Settee, Director, Indigenous Peoples Program, University of Saskatchewan(Saskatoon, SK)

Paulette Sonier-Rioux, President, Le Réseau Nationale d’Action Éducation Femmes (Pointe-Brulee, NB)

Jackie Steele, Researcher, Research Centre on Women and Politics, University of Ottawa (Ottawa,ON)

Charlotte Thibault, Co-chair, Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) (Montreal, QC)

Those participants with e-mail addresses listed have agreed to have them posted here for people to contact them, for all others please contact FAFIA at “Beijing10 at fafia-afai dot org” or by telephone at 232-9505 ext. 225