Namibia, August 9th, 2019 - The annual meeting of the Committee of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) was inaugurated today in Windhoek, capital of Namibia. In the event, which will be held until next day 12, participates representatives of women’s organizations members of the WIDF, belonging to about twenty countries, including Cuba.
Alicia Campos, member of the national leadership of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC, by its Spanish acronym) and Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the WIDF, represents the Mayor of the Antilles.
In the keynote speech, Lorena Peña, president of the organization, listed the main challenges that women face worldwide, such as gender violence, discrimination, inequality, neoliberal globalization and poverty. He also stressed the importance of strengthening the Federation and the unity of progressive women's organizations, around it.
Likewise, the also fighter of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, by its Spanish acronym) in El Salvador, condemned the US imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Cuba.
At the ceremony was also present the Secretary General of SWAPO Party, Sofía Shaningwa.
The WIDF, founded in Paris, France, on December 1st, 1945, is an international women's organization, non-governmental, that integrates women's organizations from around the world without distinction of nationalities, religious belonging, ethnicity, and sexual choice that fight for the emancipation of women and peoples, for a society without exploitation or oppression and for peace in the world.
