Venezuela Looks at Women
About 1,500 women throughout the world are expected to attend the 14th World Congress of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), to be run in Caracas on April 8-14.

Sources from the National Preparatory Committee indicated that the country is organizing the 10 working roundtables discussions, responsible for debates of the meeting, held for a first time in Latin America.

Among issues are the negative impact on women from neoliberalism, wars and interventions, traffic and mercantilization of children, adolescents and women, especially sexual exploitation, international solidarity against political repression and violence, right to culture and equality of indigenous, rural and Afro-descendent women.

Also on the list is the right to work, health, education, social security and food security, as well as the struggle to transform the negative role assigned to women in the media.