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Women's Centre at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).


In a unique collaboration between government, non-governmental organisations (NGO's), private individuals and a private company, women have joined hands to offer something unique to the public and to delegates from ell over the world. The Commission on Gender Equality (CGE CGE Computable General Equilibrium
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) has steered the transformation of the historic women's jail at the Fort on Constitution Hill into a Women's Centre for delegates to meet, to enjoy South African culture and to replenish their energy at healing workshops.

The Women's Centre Will host meetings and mini-conferences for delegates, including a pre-Summit on Peace and Development and the Africa Caucus. The works of some women artists will also be on display. The women's jail was built in 1909 to house women prisoners and was in use until 1983, when the prisoners were moved to "Sun City", the Diepkloof prison. The main crimes committed by inmates were theft, fraud, and prostitution, brewing and breaking the pass laws Pass laws in South Africa were designed to segregate the population and were one of the dominant features of the country's apartheid system. Introduced in South Africa in 1923, they were designed to regulate movement of black Africans into urban areas. . Women were picked up off the streets for not producing their passes, for breaking the Immorality Act or simply because it was feared that they might do something subversive. They were dragged into trucks and packed into the prison's tiny cells, unable to contact their families. From the earliest days of the prison, it was overcrowded o·ver·crowd  
v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds

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To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms.
. The four main meeting rooms in the jail have bean named after the leaders of the Women's March on the Union Buildings in August 1956 to protest against the Pass Laws: Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Sophia Williams-de Bruyn Sophia Williams-De Bruyn (1938 - ) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

Born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, Williams-De Bruyn rose from working in the Van Lane Textile factory to become an executive member of the Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth.
 and Rahima Moose.

For more information, please contact, wssdwomenscentre@yahoo.com or http://www.wemensnet.org.za/wssdwomen/index.shtml

Le Centre des Femmes au Sommet Mondial Mondial can refer to:
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  • Mondial (motorcyle manufacturer), an Italian motorcycle manufacturer.
 sur le Developpement Durable

Dans le cadre d'une collaboration unique de parties prenantes entre des hommes et des femmes de gouvernements, organisations non gouvernementales, le secteur prive et le Systeme des Nations Unies, et une compagnie privee, des femmes ont joint leurs efforts pour offrir quelque chose d'unique au public et aux delegues du monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.
Le beau monde
fashionable society. See Beau monde.
Demi monde
See Demimonde.
 entier. La Commission Chargee de l'Egalite entre les Sexes (CGE) a organise la transformation de la prison des femmes au Fort du Mont de la Constitution en un Centre de Femmes qui sera le point de rencontre Ren`con´tre   

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 des deleguees du SMDD SMDD Storage Module Disk Drive , pour leur permettre de jouir de la culture Sud africaine et de se rafraichir dans des ateliere bienfaisants. Le Centre des Femmes accueillera des reunions et des mini conferences pour les deleguees du SMDD, y compris un Pre--Sommet sur Paix et De--Sommet sur Paix et Developpement et le Caucus Africain. Le travail TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing.
     2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460.
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 de certaines femmes artistes sera aussi expose. La prison pour femmes a ete construite en 1909 pour les femmes prisonnieres et a ete utilisee jusqu'en 1983, quand les prisonnieres ont ete trensferees a <<Sun City>>, la prison de Diepkloof. Les crimes essentiels commis commis
Adjective

Brit (of a waiter or chef) apprentice: the commis chef [French]
 par ces prisonnieres etaient le vol, la fraude, la prostitution, la production de boissons alcooliques interdites et le non respect de lois adoptees. Les femmes etaient arretees dans les rues pour faute de production de leure pieces d'identite, ou de non respect de l'Acte sur l'Immoralite ou meme parce que l'on craignait qu'elles ne se livrent a quelque chose de subversif. Elles etaient trainees dans des camions et placees dans des cellules minuscules, et dans l'impossibilite d'entrer en contact avec leure familles. Des les premiers jours de la prison, celle-ci etait debordee. Les quatre salles principales de la prison ont ete nommees d'apres les leaders de la Marche de Femmes sur les immeubles de l'Union en Aout 1956 afin de protester contre les Lois Adoptees: Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Sophia Williams-de Bruyn et Rehima Moosa. Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez contacter: http://www.womensnet.org.za/wssdwomen/index.shtml E-mail: wesdwomenscentre@yahoo.com
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