Page 8 - 1st Newsletter - Fall - Aug - Oct 2019

International Women’s Conference

“East And West Meet in Saint Petersburg”

The Bahrain Businesswomen’s Society delegation will attend XXV International Women’s Conference
in Russia. XXV International Women’s Conference “East and West Meet in Saint Petersburg” is
organized by St. Petersburg Social and Economic Institute and supported by the City Government
and Union of Women of Russia. For 25 years International Women’s Conferences and Forums are
organized in order to provide an opportunity for governments, parliamentarians and civil society to
share experience on the development of democracy, equal rights for women and men, and to build
international humanitarian cooperation of women-leaders.

The Conference is called “East and West Meet in Saint Petersburg” since 2013. It creates conditions
for exchanging information and establishing contacts for women leaders from Russia, CIS, Baltic
States, Europe, Nordic Countries, USA, Asia and Africa.

Many socially significant projects are started from The Conference. One of them is “Music without
Barriers “ supported by the program of the Nordic Council of Ministers for the Baltic Sea region
NGOs. Its goal is to integrate children and young adults with health problems into the society
through the art of music. Five countries - Latvia, Poland, Russia, Finland and Sweden take part in
the project. The project “Entrepreneurship, women and advice: a network of resource centers in
the border areas” (EWA) is creating the network of equipped resource centers (RC) for women
in the program regions of Latvia (Latgale and Zemgale) and Russia (Pskov and Pskov region). In
2019 the conference Organization Committee is waiting for delegations from Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Brazilia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of
Thailand, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Malaysia,Mongolia, Republic of Bangladesh, Sweden, Uzbekistan and
other countries. The conference will be attended by representatives of most regions of Russia. The
city administration supports and appreciates the importance of the event, and the first day of the
Conference will be hold in a historical building Smolny where the Government of Saint Petersburg
is located. The main areas of discussion at the Conference in 2019: “East and West: looking into the
future”, “Women in the Modern Economy: Leadership and Entrepreneurship”, “Health and learning
as resources of the modern woman”.
Official website: http://iwmevents.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iwm.spb/

IWEC (International Women’s Entrepreneurship

Challenge) Foundation Awards

Congratulations to IWEC Awardees!

The Bahrain Businesswomen’s Society would like to
congratulate Mrs. Ahlam Yousif Janahi, Managing Director
of MyBakery and Bahrain Horizon, and Mrs, Khulood Al
Qattan, Director of Prime Advisory WLL, who have been
nominated to receive the IWEC Awards. The two associates
of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry will
receive their awards from IWEC Chairwoman and Former US Ambassador, H.E Ruth A. Davis and
the IWEC Conference Chairman, HRH Princess Noor Asem of Jordan, at the Awards Ceremony in
New Delhi on Tuesday 12th November 2019.
For further information, please visit the website: www.iwecfoundation.org