Pages tagged “ICW”

  • Report on International Council of Women General Assembly June 2025

    In 2005 I attended the Executive Committee Meeting in Rabat, Morocco with the then NCWNZ President Christine Low and we had a couple of days together for sightseeing in Marrakech. So, it was nice to return to Marrakech to see what progress had been made to the city in the past twenty years. I have just returned from Morocco after attending the International Council of Women (ICW) General Assembly in Marrakech, Morocco in June 2025. At this meeting I completed...

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    7 August 2025

  • NCWNZ Past President Janet Hesketh QSM, CNZM

    This is the first of a series of articles focusing on the NCWNZ Past Presidents Oral History Project with interviews by Carol Dawber in 2016. See the introductory article in The Circular at "NCWNZ Past Presidents oral history interviews from 2016" (August 2024). Janet Hesketh at Celebrating Women reception, Government House, Wellington, on 26 November 2013. From Wikimedia Commons. Janet May Hesketh née MacKenzie QSM, CNZM, was the President of the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCWNZ) from...

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    24 September 2024

  • Education Report by Young-Ae Ha Education Advisor of ICW

    The Education Action Hub recently received a paper forwarded from the International Council of Women (ICW). The paper was written by Young-Ae Ha PhD  who is the Education Advisor of ICW and professor at Humanitas College of Kyung Hee University of Korea. Dr Young-Ae Ha urged us to study the ideologies of Young Seek Chou (1921-2016) of Korea and Daisaku Ikeda (1928-2023) of Japan. Both men founded universities in their respective countries, advocating the importance of “education for human society...

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    22 April 2024

  • International Women's Day 2023 Activities

    International Women’s Day 2023 was a real success throughout the Branches of the National Council of Women of New Zealand. Thanks to the generous support of the Te Korowai Whetū Social Cohesion community fund, we gathered communities around meaningful events celebrating diversity on one hand, and empowering women through financial wellbeing on the other. 

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    22 April 2023

  • Memories of International Council of Women General Assembly in Kyiv 2011

    Arial view of Independence Square, Kyiv. Image courtesy  of Liz Cruickshank. Just over 10 years ago, a large contingent of NCWNZ members attended a wonderful International Council of Women (ICW) General Assembly in Kyiv, Ukraine. Amongst our contingent were:Vivienne BoydDame Miriam DellDame Jocelyn FishDame Janet HeskethDame Alison RoxburghDame Laurie SalasDame Dorothy Winstone

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    11 May 2022