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Regional Meeting, Tequesquitengo, Mexico, 9 April 2011

Strategies to Achieving a Work-Life Balance

Programme

Venue: Hotel Hacienda Vista Hermosa

Saturday 9 April

09.30 – 11.00 hrs        Opening

• Opening remarks by Pia Locatelli, President, Socialist International Women, SIW
• Welcoming address by Lourdes Quiñones, SIW Vice-President; President of the National Women’s Organisation (ONMPRI) of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Mexico
• Welcoming address by Héctor Hugo Olivares, in representation of Humberto Moreira, National President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Mexico
• Introduction by Marlène Haas, SIW Secretary General

 

11.00 – 13.00 hrs       Speeches and Debate

Strategies to Achieving a Work-Life Balance – A Brazilian Perspective

• Miguelina Vecchio, SIW Vice-President; President of the Labour Women Action (AMT) of the Democratic Labour Party, PDT, Brazil

Strategies to Achieving a Work-Life Balance – A Latin American Perspective

• Yolanda de la Torre, Member of Parliament; President of the Committee of Vulnerable Groups, PRI, Mexico

Debate and Questions to Speakers

 

***   Lunch Break 13.00 – 15.00 hrs   ***

 

15.00 – 17.00 hrs       Speeches and Debate

Strategies to Achieving a Work-Life Balance – A European Perspective

• Candela Mora, Coordinator of the Secretariat for Equality, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain

Strategies to Achieving a Work-Life Balance – A Mexican Perspective

• Lorena Martínez, Municipal President of Aguascalientes, PRI, Mexico

Debate and Questions to Speakers

 

17.00 – 18.30 hrs        Delegates’ contributions on different topics

18.30 – 19.00 hrs         Presentation of declarations and closing remarks

Evening                          Dinner offered by the PRI