The campaign also aims to establish June 27 as the “International Day of Peace against AIDS”, since that day, in 2011, will be the 10th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.

The campaign will take different forms according to different countries and cultural environments, so that it will attract attention from citizens all over the world and will be able to reach political, social, cultural, religious, sport and business leaders, among others, as well as the general public. Signatures will be collected for an open letter addressed to the United Nations Secretary General, seeking to get as many people as possible involved in the struggle against AIDS from a whole new perspective: the defense of Peace as a tool to stop the epidemic.

In doing so, ICW is kickstarting a worldwide action aimed to affect humankind as a whole in raising awareness regarding what Nelson Mandela calls “the possibility of extermination of the species”, unless we all find, without differences or discrimination, a Global Social Answer to the challenges posed by this terrible pandemic, which shamelessly and increasingly takes over the Human Race.

Together with ICW, the First Lady of Honduras, Doña Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, will also attend the Summit in Nairobi. A latin american leader in the struggle to make AIDS visible in the region, and a reference for the Coalición de Primeras Damas LAC regarding the struggle against AIDS, she has also promoted Patricia Pérez’s candidature for the Nobel Price.

More information on the International Women’s Summit can be found at: www.icw.org

For information in Nairobi: 0034 63 7551 547

For information in Buenos Aires:
0054 911 5 182 2828 (from abroad); 011 15 5 182 2828 (within Argentina)

Social Communication Area Campaign: info@icwlatina.org
María Mansilla; Silvina Molina; Daniel Barberis
00 54 11 4951 0651
María Mansilla - Daniel Barberis
Area de Comunicación ICW LATINA
www.icwlatina.org / comunicacion@icwlatina.org / comunicacionICW@yahoo.com
TE/FAX 00 54 11 4951 0651/5037 - Celular 15 5 182 2827