Ann Pettifor attended the conference of the Global Women's Action Network for Children in Jordan, June 2006.
Global Women's Action Network for Children
Advocacy International was invited to Jordan, as a guest of Queen Rania al-Abdullah and Marian Wright Edelman, President of the US-based National Children's Defense Fund for a conference of the Global Women's Action Network for Children. We were there to share our experience of global advocacy and advise a network of powerful women leaders on a new international campaign to end maternal mortality and promote girls education. Prominent attendees included Hon. Mary Robinson, ex-President of Ireland and previously UN Commissioner on Human Rights; Hon. Madeleine Allbright, President Clinton's Secretary of State; and the Rt. Hon. Tessa Jowell MP, the UK's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Queen Rania officially closed the conference by saying,"By speaking for those whom the world cannot hear, we will echo their stories in the halls of power and bring about change. By engaging today’s young girls and showing them the power they have within, we will help save the next generation of at-risk mothers and babies…So as you head home, let us remember….that to the world, each of us may be just one woman, but to one woman we may be the world".
