Casablanca Dialogues
A Brief Report Flagging Some of the Issues around which the Conversations Revolved at

Shubha Chacko with assistance from Asako Matsukawa (July 2007)

A group of women thinkers, along with some others, who could also be called women leaders, having a track record of engaging in public policy domains, - local, national and international; and who represent a diversity of experiences ranging from feminist scholarship to international law and international economics and heads of UN Development agencies - met in Casablanca. The concern that drew these women for a serious deep reflection was the state of the world, with special reference to the increasing distance between the rich and the poor, as well as the shifting global power landscape; which has been recognized, in various fora, from the official mainstream ones to the alternate space of civil society.

The Process that lead up to the Meeting
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The Meeting
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Women, Water and Wealth transliterates as follows:

Women as idea creators, and the women's movement as the hope for organized creative rebellion.

Water is symbolic of so many dimensions of our lives and aspirations - political, social, economic, environmental, health and cultural

Wealth as a symbol of poverty and inequality, and the current driving force in the world, money and accumulation

The Issues
The State of the State
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Knowledge and Power
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The Poor and Poverty
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Security and Insecurity
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Our Movement Ourselves
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Democratising Macroeconomics
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And Justice For All
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Politics and Empowerment
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ards Transformation
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Issues of Identity
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Water
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