On 27 and 28 March, the V Spain-Africa Meeting Women for a Better World was held in Valencia, a space for relationship and dialogue for solidarity, cooperation and the strengthening of women as active agents of development. The meeting was inaugurated by H.M. Queen Sofia and closed by the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

On 27 and 28 March, the V Spain-Africa Meeting Women for a Better World was held in Valencia, a space for relationship and dialogue for solidarity, cooperation and the strengthening of women as active agents of development. The meeting was inaugurated by H.M. Queen Sofia and closed by the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

During these two days, which are part of the semester of the Spanish presidency of the EU, issues related to peace and human rights, economic growth, health and education, training and culture were addressed. The director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Ana Leiva, was one of the attendees at the meeting that brought together more than 500 women, from 50 African countries, Spain, Europe and Latin America.

This fifth meeting follows those held in Mozambique (2006), Spain (2007), Niger (2008) and Liberia (2009). The First Vice-President of the Government, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, pointed out during the inauguration that since the Meeting held in Maputo in 2006, Women for a Better World have not stopped working to incorporate more women, governments and institutions in the effort to make the world “a more habitable, fairer and more dignified place”.