Founding W20 Chair, 2015
On January 26, 2020 I went to Riyadh to attend the Inception and Kickoff Meeting of the W20 meeting series of Saudi Arabia, where the G20 presidency this year lies. It was a first time ever for me to Riyadh and I frankly didn’t know what to expect. For most…
The G20 countries signed to close their respective gender gap by 25 % until 2025 in 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. This year is 2020 and mid term measure of this gap. WEF Gender Gap Report recently issued give some good news but also points out that we need to work…
On the weekend of October 29, 2019, we were in Luxembourg on a trip organized by the Honorary Consul of Luxembourg in Izmir, a dear friend Feyhan Yaşar. Luxembourg is a small, very beautiful and tidy country. Food was scrumptious and relatively reasonably priced. Wherever you look, there are both…
For those of you who have been saying “where have you been? We haven’t seen you lately! The answer is as follows: I have made 21 International trips to the nicest cities in the world, most of them invited as a speaker or a participant! Thank you for the patience…
We are launching a new section on web portal The forums’, summits’, and congresses’ main value is a productive communication and collaboration among their participants. The Summer Peace Summit in Brussels brought together women from 14 countries, representatives from different communities. Many of them have already started realising joint projects…
Founder of W20 at the Summer Peace Summit Peace 50 community brought together active, powerful, and wise women from 14 countries. This summer, they met at the Summer Peace Summit in Brussels in order to discuss issues related to preservation of peace and development of the world, exchange ideas, and…
Joynicole Martinez on the Summit in Living Tomorrow Vilvoorde/Brussels The Summer Peace Summit became the first meeting of the participants of the new community called Peace 50 (P50). It is pleasant that the event has echoed in the hearts of women from different countries of the world. After 2 days…
Peace Summit took place in Living Tomorrow Vilvoorde/Brussels On June 28-29, the Summer Peace Summit took place in Living Tomorrow Vilvoorde/Brussels. The event brought together women leaders from 15 countries. The Summit participants who represented different fields of activity discussed issues related to preservation and development of peace, exchanged their…
Every year G20 is hosted by one country and this year the presidency of the G20 resides with Japan. The G20 Leaders’ Summit shall take place on June 28 and 29, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. The Summit for the women outreach group of the G20, W20 – Women 20 was…
I was a speaker at the Asian Leadership Conference. I was delighted to be there. Almost every speaker I had a chance to listen said the same thing. They were happy to be there, and I believe it was not a cliché, but people were happy to be in Seoul.…
We are a group of 60+ feminists from Canada, G7 countries and around the world. We represent feminist organizations and activists working on a cross-section of issues to address discrimination and inequalities on the basis of gender and other intersecting factors. We are at the frontline of resistance and progress…
This year the meeting was opened by the Executive Director of UN Women and the meeting started with songs while Secretary General was entering the Townhall. The auditorium was full of representatives of many countries with their colorful outfits. KAGIDER (Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey) was at the meeting with…
St. Petersburg is a city that hosts record number of art work in the Guinness Book of Records at the Hermitage Museum. The world’s largest collection of paintings at the Hermitage Museum is a state museum. It was founded in 1764 by the Tsarina Catharina 2. also known as Catharine…
I was in Barcelona on April 9 -12 for IWF Cornerstone Conference. Before the opening of the conference, there was another meeting held, which was IWF Presidents’ Council Meeting. After the opening speeches the topics included a new video made by IWF Global in order to present the value proposition…
The Managing Director of IMF Christine Lagarde said that the “economies need to be handled with care.” Last year she had said to the Finance Ministers that “it is when the sun is shining you have to fix the roof” borrowing the sentence from the President John F. Kennedy. In…
