This October Cadogan Hall will be hosting this year’s Women in the World event. Over two days the event gathers together inspirational participants from over 17 countries, to share their stories of how they have saved and enriched lives, stormed male bastions and cleared paths for women and girls across the globe.
These brave activists, artists, peacemakers, dissidents, journalists and entrepreneurs will stir provocative debate and truly represent women in the world.
This year Women in the World is joined by Suffragette stars Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Sarah Gavron who will be interviewed by Historian Simon Schama on the film charting the women’s suffrage movement.
Women in the World have also secured an exclusive interview with Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan as well as an interview with Germany’s charismatic, first-ever woman Federal Minister of Defence, Dr Ursula von der Leyen.
Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Laureate, who led the revolt by the women of Liberia against the despot Charles Taylor will also be giving an interview about her incredible and brave work.
Women in the World will be joined by the first women to become First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and 20 year old Mhairi Black, the youngest MP elected to the House of Commons.
21 year old Yeonmi Park, defector from North Korea will share the story of her harrowing escape and Michaela DePrince, former Sierra Leone war orphan, will discuss how she became a globally renowned ballerina.
Women in the World will also be in conversation with Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, of Gulu, Uganda, the Founder of a tailoring centre where the former soldiers and slaves of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) find a vocation. She will be joined by a young woman who was herself abducted by the LRA.
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