Goals of Millennia 2015
Generic Title | Women 1908-2008 | Process | Logo
In English:
"Millennia 2015, Women as actors of development for the global challenges".
In French:
"Millennia 2015, Femmes actrices de développement pour les enjeux mondiaux"
French and English are also the languages of the World Federation of the United Nations Associations (WFUNA).
On the 8th of March 1908, the premise of the International Women's Day was born out of the actions of women workers demanding suffrage for women, as well as political, economic and social rights. They also acted against child labour and against the war. The Women's Day was instituted in 1910 and has been celebrated on the 8th of March nearly all over the world ever since, with a recognition by the United Nations in 1977 as a "United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace".
Millennia is a feminine version of "Millennium" and its first session gave us an opportunity for commemorating the United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace, one century after the first massive actions women organized for their human rights on the 8th March 1908.
Process
More than a new conference, or a new association or a new network, fuelled by new publications and a new website, Millennia is a thni; and action tank that will take the best of all those elements in order to place new milestones to empower women's entrepreneurship at large and on a global level. It is probably the first international process to rely on foresight as a method and the information society as context in exploring and setting priorities for women's future.
With Millennia 2015, we intend to use ICT in order to durably contribute to the wellbeing of all citizens around the world. Millennia 2015 gathers all women and men concerned by those questions, in order, to think, to decide and to act, by 2015, at the horizon 2025.
The process is going on and we plan to impact on the political agenda at all levels.
To build the logo of Millennia, we wished to illustrate:
- the universality of Women in Millennia (3 Women signs with different colors in movement);
- the colors of the world, starting from where Millennia will take place, Wallonia (red and yellow), to our nearest partner, Europe (yellow and blue); with blue as the color of the United Nations, of WFUNA, of UNESCO; and green to keep in mind one of our main concerns, which is the fragility of environment as a difficulty to achieve sustainable development,
- the Millennia's process at work from 2008 to 2015 (3 spirals with different axes),
- the official international women's color, purple, at the center of the word "millennia";
- again, the sustainable development concern of Millennia, at the horizon "2015" designed in blue and green.
We thank Xavier Warrant, the designer who realised Millennia 2015 logo.
Lien direct : www.millennia2015.org/Goals
