Subject: SPAIN: ILGA represented at the Forum Civil Euromed Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 15:07:15 +0000 (WET) From: Björn Skolander From: Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana ILGA represented at the Forum Civil Euromed. The Governmental Euromediterranean Conference in Barcelona was followed by the Forum Civil Euromed with the idea of talking about civil problems and giving more importance to civil affairs than the Governmental one. The Forum finished last Friday (Dec. 1). ILGA Secretaries General, Jordi Petit and Inge Wallaert, were invited to attend and participate in the Forum. The opening ceremony was presided by the Prince of Spain, Felipe de Borbon, and some speechs of Catalan and Spanish authorities. Mrs Cristina Alberdi, Minister of Social affairs talked about the importance and advances reached at the Beijing Conference and she remarked the right to the difference of the people. Jordi Petit presented a comunication on one of the Forums where he talked about ILGA and its objectives. Inge Wallaert expressed her thouhgts related with visibility of lesbian women on Mediterranean countries, especially on those from the South part of the Mediterranean where the rights of women are not already considered. Pere Cruells International Comission ____________________________________________________________ | | | Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana ________________ | | C/ les Carolines, 13 \\ // | | 08012 Barcelona \\ // | | Catalunya - Spain \\ // | | \\// | | voice: 34-3-237 08 69 | | fax: 34-3-218 11 91 | | hot line: 900 601 601 (free number, but just from Spain) | | 34-3-237 70 70 (rest of the world, but not free) | | e-mail: cogailes@pangea.org | |____________________________________________________________|