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Women’s World Conference, Tromso, Norway
June 1999
Over 1300 women from all nations and interests met at Tromso above
the Arctic Circle for a week-long conference in late June 1999.
WSI was well-represented with the President, Vice President and
Secretary in attendance. We hosted a symposium on the first day
of the conference at which papers were delivered about the research
and advocacy work of WSI. Whilst the numbers attending our sessions
were relatively small we did manage to interests women from several
new countries in the work of our organisation and to make useful
contacts with women working in cognate fields. All the membership
forms and information
leaflets that we took were snapped up from the public displays.
Health was a prominent theme in the conference programme but sport
as such was not much in evidence. It seems that we have much work
to do to strengthen our ties with women working for similar political
and policy objectives but who have not yet realised the benefits
that women’s sport has to offer.
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