The People’s Daily Online reports about about the 4th World Congress of Rural Women:
Illiteracy, hunger, abuse and other challenges confronting rural women around the world will become focal issues at an international conference late next month in South Africa, a South African official said on Thursday.
About 2,000 delegates from around the world will also discuss the development of rural women during the 4th World Congress of Rural Women in Durban in the last week of April, said Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana.
Xingwana said the congress would focus on solutions and strategies to enable sustainable rural development, the official BuaNews reported.
The minister said the congress would bring together rural women of the world from different backgrounds to share with each other and learn from each other’s experiences.
South Africa was chosen because of the country’s leading role in issues of gender, transformation and the recognition of human rights, Xingwana said.
A global collection of people coming together as such strikes the perfect collaboration of their differences and similarities. These rural women can use their differing experiences to share ideas, and come up with collaborative ways to fix their common problems.