January 2004 Gala

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Meeting Global Challenges:
Healthy Women, Healthy World
IWHC's Third Annual Gala, January 2004

On January 15, 2004, the International Women's Health Coalition held its Third Annual Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City, celebrating 20 years of work defending and advancing girls' and women's health and rights worldwide. We honored United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for his recognition that women's health and rights are central to solving global challenges. Click here to read the Secretary General's keynote speech.

Our special guests were colleagues Dorothy Aken'Ova of the International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights (INCRESE, Nigeria) and Shazia Mohamed of Aahung (Pakistan), who spoke about their work. Actress Glenn Close and CBS news correspondent Lesley Stahl led a toast for IWHC's 20th anniversary.

For information about our next gala, please contact Laura Miller at lmiller@iwhc.org.

Keynote Address Delivered by Kofi Annan, IWHC's Third Annual Gala

Speech, 3 pages. Keynote address on the centrality of women's and girls' health and rights to solving global challenges, delivered by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, January 2004. Available in HTML, Word, and PDF.

Dorothy Aken 'Ova, Nigeria

"What we're doing is new. We want to initiate a dialogue on issues people are uncomfortable talking about."