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Sacks, Alissa
5720 Plover Court
Richmond, British Columbia, V7E 4K2
Home Phone: 604-275-0845
Samji, Gulzar
Position Consultant
Gender and International Development Group
5243 Nancy Greene Way
North Vancouver, British Columbia, V7R 4N2
Canada
Home Phone: 604-987-0371 (conference calls)
Work Phone:
604-987 6691
Fax: 604-987 6691
Vocation
Activist
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development,
planning
Biographical information
Education: Post graduate
diploma, Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, Denmark. B.Sc. Honours in
Agriculture, specialization in Animal Sciences, Uganda.
Employment/
Experience: Present: Consultant (Professional Agrologist (P.Ag)), training
in development, environment education Past: Co-ordinator of Immigrant and
Visible Minority Women of B.C. Research: Cancer Immunology, Children's
Hospital; Microbiology, U.B.C.; Mink food and fur, Denmark; nutritous levels
in poultry, Tanzenia.
Memberships: Member, Human Rights Tribunal
Member at large, Agrology Institute of B.C., Canada VP, UN Association,
Vancouver Co-director, UNA Canada Chair, Gender and Development Group of
B.C. Advisory Committee, U.B.C., U. Vic, Police, etc.
Languages;
other skills: English; Gujarati; Swahili; Dåueh; Hindi
Your publications related to SD
Samji, G. (1994) " UN
Beijing Conference and Forum: Demistifying the Participatory Process."
Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives
Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994. Samji, G. (April 1991) "Women,
Poverty and Militarism in the Third World. " The Nellie, a North Shore
Women's Newsletter. Samji, G.(Sept. 1991) "Healing the Earth,
Women's Strategies for the Environment-" Synopsis of the Conference.
KINESIS, News about women not normally reported in the dailies, p. 9.
Samji, G. (Nov. 12, 1991) "Women and the Environment." World's First
Environment news Services, E-Sheet, Vol 2, No. 137. Samji, G. Co-edited
the Healing the Earth report on the conference. (Women and Sustainable
Development: Canadian Perpectives Conference.)
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: The destruction of the third world environment/economy while
growing up in Africa.
Concerns and encouragement
I am concerned that the public should
have a better understanding of its actions and impacts on the global
community (eg. the impact of consumerism on the environment). The Rio
Conference has induced some progress towards sustainability. However, a lot
more work needs to be done. It is a good thing that more women are taking
charge for change!
Changes needed
In order to become sustainable, we need public
education that offers alternatives to present unhealthy lifestyles.
Miscellaneous comments
Women and men need to work together to
facilitate change. Women cannot do it alone. Blaming needs to stop and
creative solutions need to be found.
Samuel, Jeannie
730 Union Street
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Home Phone: 604-254-1954
Work Phone: 604-737-2258
Fax: 604-775-0977
Sancho, Nelia
Position Regional Secretariat
Asian Women's Human Rights Council
P.O.Box 190
1099 Manila, , The Philippines
Fax: 632-921 5571 / 632-999 437
SD Interest Areas
Sustainable development - Peace and security
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups
(youth, women, First Nations)
Biographical information
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Sancho, N. (1994) "Women,
Sustainable Development and Human Rights - A Feminist and South Perspective."
Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives
Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.
Sandy, Arlene
Road to Rediscovery
c/o Karen Carlyle; Grant MacEwan Community College; Mill Woods Campus,
7319 - 29 19 Ave.,
Edmonton,, Alberta, T6K 2P1
Home Phone: 403-435-2049
Work Phone: 403-497-4036
Fax: 403-497-4045
Vocation First Nations
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development,
planning
Biographical information
Employment/Experience: A member
of a low income, single parent, aboriginal, women's group in N.E. Edmonton
(Road to Rediscovery). The group is struggling to sustain their families and
looking for ways to improve the economic situation in their community.
Savoie, Lucie
UNCRC
P.O. Box 16
Legaceville, New Brunswick, E0C 1K0 Canada
Home Phone: 506-776-8090
Work Phone: 506-776-8925
Fax: 506-776-5844
Saxell, Lee
International Confederation of Midwives
2043 Ferndale Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, V5L 1Y2
Canada
Work Phone: 604-251 4125
Fax: 604-255 1076
Vocation
Activist
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Health
Biographical information
Education: Present: Master's
Candidate in Midwifery from University in the United Kingdom. Affiliated with
UBC and SFU
Experience/ Employment: practicing licensed midwife.
Memberships: International Conferdeation of Midwives
Languages;
other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Saxell, L (1994) "Coming Soon
to a Community Near You: Midwifery Care in Canada." Workshop at the Women
and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C.,
Vancouver, May, 1994.
Sayne
Sayne, Pamela
University of Toronto/
Weed Foundation
2163 Queen St. E. #C7
Toronto, Ontario, M4L 1J1
Canada
Work Phone: 416-699-2401
Fax: 416-694-5003
VocationActivist; Academic and Community Development Educator
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Research (Science; social
science)
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community
development, planning
Biographical information
S.D. Interest Areas: Women and Human Settlements, Environment.
Education : Doctorate: O.I.S.E. University of Toronto, Adult Education
Department.
Employment/Experience:
Consultant/Researcher, WEED Foundation.
Memberships:
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education
Habitat
International Coalition
W.E.E.D.
Women for a Just and Healthy
Planet
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD:
Book Contribution:
Sayne, P. (1993) " Ideology as Law: Is There a Room for Difference in the
Right to Housing?", Shelter, Women and Development: First and Third World
Perspectives, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, ed. Hemalata C.
Dandekar, George Wahr Publishing Co., Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Editied Special Issues Publication:
Sayne, P. (1990) Guest co-editor, "Women
and Housing Issue", Canadian Women Studies Journal 11, 2.
Journals
Sayne, P. (Spring, 1993) "Complicity of Social Change:
Housing Requirements and Development" Canadian Women Studies.
Sayne, P. (April, 1993) "Patriarchy, Women and Human Settlements."
Women and Environments.
Sayne, P. (Spring, 1992) "Women for a Just and Healthy Planet." Women
and Environments.
Sayne, P. (Fall, 1991) " Food for thought: Making Women Visible"
Environment and Urbanization 3, 2: 46-50.
Sayne, P. (Fall, 1990) "Housing Language, Housing Reality?" Canadian
Women Studies Journal. 11, 2: 6.
Sayne, P. (Fall, 1990) "Women in Toronto Creating Housing: Participation
and Process." Canadian Woman Studies Journal 11, 2: 38-41.
Book Reviews:
Sayne, P. Review of "Gender and Development: A
Practical Guide". Edited by Lise OsterGaard. London: Routledge,1992.
Resources for Feminist Research, Forthcoming.
Sayne, P. "Review of Women, Human Settlements and Housing." Edited by
Caroline O.N. Moser and Linda Peake. London: Tavistock Publications, 1987.
Resources for Feminist Research 19 (March 1990): 42-43.
Newsletter Publications:
Sayne, P. (August, 1992.) "Reflections on
Rio" Jornado. Toronto.
Sayne, P. WOPHE (Women's Perspectives on Housing and the Environment)
Newsletter Co-editor, Toronto, 1,2,3,: 1993
Sayne, P. Women and Shelter Network Newsletter (s) North America Reports,
Habitat International Coalition.
Other Publications:
Sayne, P. "International Year of Shelter for the
Homeless, 1987"; guide to Audio/Visual Resources Reviews, Toronto:
Rooftops Canada Foundation, 1987.
Conference Presentations
Sayne, P. "Women and Human Settlements:
Gendered analysis of Sustainable development" Women and Sustainable
Development, Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British
Columbia, May 27-31 1994.
Sayne, P." Sustainable Development or Sustainable Community - Feminist
Perspectives from North and South" Women and Sustainable Development,
Sustainable Development Research Institiute, University of British Columbia, May
27-31 1994.
Sayne, P."Women Speak for Themselves: Perspectives and Social Action"
Joining Forces to Further Shared Visions, The Association for Women In
Development, Sixth International Forum, Washington, D.C., October 21-24, 1993.
Sayne, P. "Solidarity and Diversity: Debt and Homelessness "NGO
Global Forum, (co-presenter), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 9, 1992.
Sayne, P. " Women, Housing and Ideology" Earth Parliment: meeting of
indigenous peoples, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 9. 1992.
Sayne, P. "Ideology, Development and the Right to Housing" Learned
Societies Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, May 31,
1992.
Sayne, P. "Ideology and the Law: Is there Room for Difference in the Right
to Housing?" Learned Societies Conference, University of Prince Edward
Island, Charlottetown, May 31, 1992.
Sayne, P. " Strategies for Bringing Issues of Women and Shelter to Policy
Makers, Development Agencies and NGO's Learning Together, Working Together: A
North-South Dialogue, (co-presenter) the Association for Women in Development
Fifth International Forum." Washington, D.C., November 21-24, 1991.
Sayne, P. "Women, Housing Rights, and Empowerment: Identitiy and Culture",
Discovering Our Future: An International Development Seminar, Trent University,
Peterborough, May, 1991.
Sayne, P. "Food for Thought: Making Women Visible", Human
Settlements and Sustainable Development, sponsored by CMHC, IDRC, UNCHS, CIDA,
and the University of Toronto, Toronto, June, 22, 1990.
Sayne, P. "Sheltering Ourselves: Developing Housing for Women, "
(co-presenter) 4th International Interdisciplinary Congress of Women, New York,
June 7, 1990.
Sayne, P. "Women and Housing Networking", Canadian Research Institute
for the Advancement of Women, Yellowknife, November, 1989.
Public Adresses, Workshops, Forums and Seminars:
Sayne, P. "Human
Rights and Housing: An Ontario and International Perspective" Housing
Forum sponsored by the Children's Aid Society, Co-operative Housing Association
of Ont,. Rooftops Cd. Canadian African Newcomer Aid Center, Tenants Non-Profit
Redevelopment Corp. April 13, 1993.
Sayne, P. "Women and Development or Women Re-defining Development?"
HarbourFront: Development Week " Making the Links South and North".
Fegruary 6, 1993.
Sayne, P. "The Earth Summit: Where it Came from and Where its Going"
St. James United Church, Etobicoke, September 20, 1992.
Sayne, P. "Patriarchy: the unsaid at UNCED" Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, September 18, 1992.
Sayne, P."Report back from Rio" United Nations Association of Canda
August 22-23, 1992.
Sayne, P."Women and Housing" Women for a Just and Healthy Planet,
Toronto, June, 12, 1992.
Sayne, P."Women and Shelter/Human Settlements", Global Forum,
(co-presenter) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May, 1992.
Sayne, P."Women, Housing and the Environment", How Common is Our
Future? Mexico City, March, 1991.
Sayne, P."Women and Housing Network Meeting", Habitat International
Coalition Women and Shelter Group, Ottawa, May, 1990.
Sayne, P."Community and Housing Rights", Housing Rights Conference,
facilitator, Ottawa, May, 1990.
Sayne, P."Building Blocks of Communities, not Commodities: Housing as a
Women's Issue", Agenda for Action: Ontario Women into the 1990's Founding
Convention: Ontario Women's Action Coalition. Sault St. Marie, Ontario, October
27-29, 1989.
Sayne, P."Women and Housing: Challenges fo Co-operators",
Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, St. Johns, Newfoundland, May, 1989.
Sayne, P." Women Struggle for Shelter in the Third World",
Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, St. Johns, Newfoundland, May, 1989.
Sayne, P. "Rooftops Canada Foundation Project, Co-operative Housing
Federation of Canada ," AGM, St, Johns, Newfoundland, May, 1989.
Sayne, P."Housing: a Women's Issue", Older Women's Network, Toronto,
Ontario, April, 1989.
Sayne, P. "Rooftops Canada Foundation Project Report, Co-operative Housing
Foundation of Canada", AGM, Vancouver, B.C., May, 1988.
Sayne, P. " Women and Housing", Women Plan Toronto Conference,
Toronto, Ont., April, 1989.
Sayne, P. "Co-op Housing: An Alternative for Older Women", Older
Women's Network/ The Center for Women's Studies in Education, Public Forum,
Toronto, Ont., January, 1988.
Sayne, P. " The History of the Toronto Women's Housing Co-operative",
Shelter for Women: More than Just a Roof, Toronto, YWCA Conference, October
9-30, 1987.
Sayne, P."RoofTops Canada Foundation", Co-operative Housing Foundation
od Canada, AGM, Vancouver, B.C., May, 1987.
Sayne, P. "Staffing in Co-operatives", Co-operative Housing Federation
of Toronto, Grindstone Island Ontario, Summer, 1984.
Sayne, P."Physical Maintenance for Housing Co-operatives",
Co-operative Housing Foundation of Canada AGM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1984.
Sayne, P." Co-operative Management", Co-operative Housing Foundation
of Toronto, Grindstone Island, Ontario, Summer 1983.
Sayne, P. "Staffing Housing Co-operatives", Co-operative Housing
Foundation of Canada AGM, Vancouver B.C., May, 1981.
Sustainable Development viewpoints
Changes needed: Community/development
Schriek, Suzanne Martha
20555 120 B Ave.,
Maple Ridge, British Columbia, V2X 0N6
Work Phone: 604-465-5691
Fax: 604-465-1670
Scott, Heather
Seagull Foundation
P.O. Box 370
Pugwash, Nova Scotia, B0K 1L0 Canada
Home Phone: 902-243 2769
Work Phone: 902-243 2516
Fax: 902-243 3368
SD Interest Areas Sustainable
development - Community development, planning
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Business, industry, and
labour issues
Biographical information
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Scott, H. (1994) "Eliminating
the Fear of Trying: A Strategy for Corpoate Responsibility". Workshop at
the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference.
U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.
Scott, Phyllis
5754 Cranley Drive
West Vancouver, British Columbia, V7W 1S8
Home Phone: 604-921-0734
Sethi , Baljit
Immigrant & Multicultural Series Society
1306 7th Ave.,
Prince George, British Columbia, V2L 3P1 Canada
Home Phone: 604-562-2273
Work Phone: 604-562-2900
Fax: 604-563-4852
Vocation Union
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups
(youth, women, First Nations)
Biographical information
Education: MA in Punjabi, MA in
Fine Arts; BA BED Guidance to Counselling Diploma; Management in nonprofit
sector
Employment/Expereince: Working as counselling educator for
Immigrants and refugees for the last 20 years.
Memberships:
Member: Canadian Research Insitute for the Advancement of Women; Federation of
University Women Club; BC settlement Integration Worker Association.
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Sethi, B. "Senior Immigrant
Women from Visible Minority Groups in a Smaller Northern Community".
Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives
Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.
Severs, Sandra
314, 19th Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta, T2S 0C9 Canada
Work Phone: 403-228 1444
Fax: 403-228 1444
Vocation
Church
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development,
planning
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups
(youth, women, First Nations)
Biographical information
S.D. Interest Areas: Eco-feminism;
women and development; women's spirituality; environment.
Education:
Trained as both an environmental ethicist and a United Church Minister.
Master of Divinity, M.Div. M.A. Environmental Ethics B.E.S., Bachelor of
Environmental Studies. Experience/
Employment: Through experience, I
can find opportunity to explore the meaning of sustainable community as people
seek out healthy lifestyles and as they face transitions in their life cycles.
My environmental training is firmly grounded in my theological understanding,
and in the realities of this world, and provides me with the tools to
articulate and explore contemporary issues facing Canadians in the later-days
of the twentieth century.
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Severs, S. (1994) "Christian
Ecofeminism: An Evaluation of the Contribution of Christian Ethics to the
Continuing Development of Environmental Ethics." Workshop at the Women and
Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver,
B.C., May, 1994.
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: Marilyn Waring's, "If Women Counted" , has helped me
demystify economics; E.F. Schumacher's, "Good Work" , has
helped me think again about the meaning of work. Both have been important
lately.
Concerns and encouragement
List of concerns to be addressed in
order to approach S.D. 1) our lack of a solid theoretical understanding of
environmental ethics, 2) our inability to live comfortably with a diversity of
feminism. Our own rigidity regarding ideology is/can be used against us.
Changes needed
List of changes needed in order to integrate the
qualities of S.D. into our society :1)exploration/development of a non
anthropocentric worldview, 2) rethinking of our place within, not outside,
nature, 3) new economic system that recognizes different kinds of valuing, 4)
death of the myth of 'traditional family values', 5) more women in
decision-making positions.
Sharma, Nirmala
CIDA/Nepal Women in Development Programme
P.O. Box 4574, Lazimpath
Kathmandu, , Nepal
Home Phone: 415 389
Work Phone: 415 193
Fax:
977-1-410 422
Vocation Activist
Biographical information
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Sharma, N. (1994) " Efforts
of NGO's in Bringing Women Into the Decision-Making Level in Nepal's Context."
" Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives
Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.
Shaw, Heather
3864 West 13th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6R 2S8
Home Phone: 604-222-1665
Sheppard, Michelle
RR2 Site 15 Comp 178
Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5X1 Canada
Work Phone: 403-667 6790
Fax: 403-633 4246
Vocation
Activist
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Research (science, social
science)
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Ecology, environment,
resources
Biographical information
S.D Interests: Third world development;
all areas of biological research especially in third world countries.
Experience/Employment: Training persons in the different fields involved in in
Africa and the Yukon; Veterinary Nurse, England; Tsetse research assistant,
Zambia; Human parasitologist Sierra Leone; Fishery research and technology,
China and Canada.
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Sheppard, M. (1994) "Fisheries
Management in the Yukon." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable
Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.
Shivdas, Meena
Asian and Pacific Development Centre
Pesiaran Duta, P.O. Box 12224,
50770 Kuala Lumpur, , Malaysia
Home Phone: 603-273-1215
Work Phone: 603-2548088
Fax: 603-253-0316
Vocation Union
Biographical information
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Shivdas, M. (1994) " UN
Beijing Conference and Forum - Demystifying the Participatory Process"
Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives
Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.
Shniad, Joanna
2559 East 4th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Home Phone: 604-254-4993
Shrestha, Ramrajya Laxmi
ECOGEN
P.O. Box 6168, Jyatha, Kantipath
Kathmandu, , Nepal
Work Phone: 011-977-1-217 462
Fax: 011-977-1-413 113
Vocation Activist
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Ecology, environment,
resources
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Health
Biographical information
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Shestha, N. (1994) "Water
Supply, Sanitation, Gender and the Environment-the Case of Nepal. "
Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives
Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.
Shroff, Sajida
8020 Reigate Road
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5E 4G1
Home Phone: 604-522-9864
Fax: 604- 520-5879
Vocation counsellor
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development,
planning
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
Biographical information
S.D. Interest Areas: education,
international development, the development of educational programs that meet
the requirements of the people within a society and prepare them for self
sufficiency, especially women and children.
Education: B.A. (Asian
Area Studies & Hist), B.Ed. Experience/
Employment: travel
fellowship to India from CIDA, work with youth as counsellor and senior
counsellor, volunteer with YMCA-Ins. Kids, co-chair; UNA Human Rights Committee,
Van.
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: I am inspired by my visit to India in 1990 where I lived in a
village and worked with the educational services and my work with NGO's that
has shown me the lack of certain 'necessities' and the abundance of others -
and the misuse of these resources and the people.
Concerns and encouragement
Concerns, I am concerned by the
lack of education which then perpetuates the cycle of dependence and
exploitation as well as the the lack of 'regard' for females as equal and 'real'
human beings.
Changes needed
Changes Needed: There should be a societal change
and outlook in the way women are perceived. The public needs to be educated on
this matter so we can operate within our own society. I also have observed a
lack of self sufficiency in our use of resources. There needs to be more
boundary guidelines utilized in the exploitation of resources in order to
address the goals of S.D.
Shuai, Claire
203 - 2700 Acadia Road
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1R9
Home Phone: 228-8002
Fax: 228-8002
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