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	Dame Nita Barrow
		With the appointment in September, 1986, of Dame Nita Barrow as its Permanent Representative the government of Barbados chose one of the most distinguished women of the Caribbean to oversee the country's interests at the United Nations.
		Dame Nita's membership of the Group was proposed by the Prime Minister of the Bahamas in recognition of the Barbadian's outstanding leadership in the International Council for Adult Education, the World Council of Churches and the World YWCA.
		Dame Nita was a strong advocate of the coordinating function of the United Nations and the part to be played by that organization in awakening an interest in improving the human condition.
	www.nl.edu /academics/cas/ace/resources/nitabarrow.cfm (1238 words)

	Barrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barrow 1 n 1 A flat rectangular tray or cart with handles at each end.
		Barrow 2 n A large mound of earth or stone placed over a burial site.
		Point Barrow, a headland 9 miles northeast of the town of Barrow
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barrow (139 words)

	Nita Barrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dame Nita Ruth Barrow (November 15, 1916 December 19, 1995) was a nurse and humanitarian activist from Barbados.
		She served as governor-general of Barbados from 1990 until her death.
		She was the older sister of politician Errol Barrow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nita_Barrow (64 words)

	Outstanding Women of the Caribbean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nita Barrow was a practicing adult educator in a brilliant career that spanned more than half a century.
		Nita Barrow chose nursing as a profession from among the limited number of careers then available to young women.
		Nita Barrow was also a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, holding graduate degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
	trulywoman.tripod.com /topwomen.htm (1063 words)

	The Dame Nita Barrow Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dame Nita Barrow, former President of ICAE, Governor of Barbados, Caribbean by birth, was a true citizen of the world who had adopted the global family as her own.
		The Dame Nita Barrow Award was created in 1990 at the ICAE World Assembly in Bangkok, Thailand.
		The aim of this $2,000(Cdn) award is to recognize regional and national adult education organizations that have made a significant contribution towards the empowerment of women.
	www.icae.org.uy /eng/nita.html (90 words)

	Past Dame Nita Barrow Visitors - Centre for Women's Studies in Education
		Marieme Hélie-Lucas (2005 Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitor), an Algerian sociologist, was in charge of the policy of education and training for the new industries and for gas (1962-66).
		Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (2000 Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitor) is founder of the African Women's Development Fund, and Director of Akina Mama wa Africa, an international, pan-African, non-governmental organization for African women based in the UK with an African regional office in Kampala, Uganda.
		Peggy Antrobus (1998 Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitor) established the Women and Development Programme (WAND) of the University of the West Indies in 1978, and was co-ordinator until her retirement in 1995.
	www.oise.utoronto.ca /cwse/pastvis.htm (1825 words)

	Nita Barrow (Co-Chair) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Co-Chair Dame Nita Barrow is Governor-General of Barbados and the former Representative of the Government of Barbados to the United Nations.
		She is an outspoken and articulate foe of social injustice and a strong advocate of the role of the UN in protecting human rights.
		Dame Nita Barrow began her career in the nursing profession and continues her commitment to the field of health care as a consultant to the World Health Organization.
	www.iisd.org /50comm/panel/pan01.htm (320 words)

	AWID - Feminist Movements and Organizations
		This is a co-sponsored visitorship which AWID is currently organizing jointly with the University of Toronto, to support an internationally renowned feminist strategist to have a space to think, write and rest.
		Alda Facio (Director Women, Gender and Justice Program, United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention) is a jurist, writer and an international expert on women's human rights, violence against women and feminist analysis of the law.
		The text of her Dame Nita Barrow lecture is presented here.
	www.awid.org /femo (1007 words)

	Women of Achievement
		Dame Nita Barrow convened the women's conference in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985 that ended the United Nations' Women's Decade.
		Dame Barrow had been knighted in 1980 for her work in public health and then appointed Barbados' ambassador to the United Nations in 1986.
		She sought the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly but lost in a bitter contest filled with sexist overtones to Argentina's foreign minister.
	www.undelete.org /woa/woa05-14.html (617 words)

	CONFINTEA JOURNAL
		This evening delegates attended a ceremony to commemorate two great adult educationists, Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, who died at the end of 1995, and Paulo Freire, whose recent death prevented his attending the conference.
		Those who came before us believed in their cause and they have left us with this fabulous legacy: a movement of conscientious adult educators in the midst of an ever evolving society.
		This week we would like to pay homage to Dame Nita Barrow and Paulo Freire who, since our last conference, are no longer with us.
	www.unesco.org /op/eng/confintea/daily.htm (3558 words)

	Maldives Mission to the United Nations
		Your Excellency Governor-General Dame Nita Barrow, Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford, Mr.
		Before I conclude, let me once again congratulate Governor-General Dame Nita Barrow, for taking the initiative to convene this Meeting.
		I also take this opportunity to assure you, on behalf of the Group of Eminent Persons, of our desire and resolve to work together to present substantive suggestions to the forthcoming Global Conference.
	www.un.int /maldives/unsids.htm (1414 words)

	GFW \| History
		Along with co-founders Frances Kissling and Laura Lederer, she determined to address the lack of funding available to women activists worldwide with the creation of a global foundation dedicated to their support.
		Dame Nita Barrow, former Governor General of Barbados, and a leading figure in the global women's movement was the fourth founding member of the Global Fund.
		Murray retired and was succeeded by Kavita Nandini Ramdas the current President and CEO.
	www.globalfundforwomen.org /1work/about-history.html (428 words)

	Find in a Library: Stronger, surer, bolder : Ruth Nita Barrow : social change and international development
		Find in a Library: Stronger, surer, bolder : Ruth Nita Barrow : social change and international development
		Stronger, surer, bolder : Ruth Nita Barrow : social change and international development
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/6ea95b9794c1fff1a19afeb4da09e526.html (78 words)

	MEMBERS OF THE CENTRE
		Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow Social Change and International Development.
		Christine Barrow: 436-456; Ian Randle Publishers in association with The Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
		Christine Barrow, BA, DPhil, PGCE (Sus), Professor, Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work, UWI, Cave Hill, Deputy Principal.
	gender.uwichill.edu.bb /GenderStaff.htm (3419 words)

	Advocate
		That is the decision of the Universitys Finance and General Purposes Committee, which ratified the decisions of the Naming Committee, much of which had to do with the learning institutions cricket facilities and programmes.
		In the first instance, it said The Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Cave Hill, would be re-named The Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Cave Hill: Nita Barrow Unit.
		This is in tribute to the woman who made an important contribution to the nursing profession, in addition to having been Barbados first and only female Governor General.
	www.barbadosadvocate.com /NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=22863 (487 words)

	[02 Nov 1999] SG/SM/7204 : ON EVE OF WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION MINISTERIAL MEETING, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES LINKAGE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I am honoured to welcome the participants of this meeting to New York.
		I also join you in paying tribute to the memory of Dame Nita Barrow, and to her steadfast support for the work of "Rights and Humanity".
		It is timely and appropriate that you have gathered just before the Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), where a new trade round will be discussed.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1999/19991102.sgsm7204.doc.html (462 words)

	"Village of Hope” a unique space to promote sustainable development was created at UN Global Conference on ...
		"Village of Hope” a unique space to promote sustainable development was created at UN Global Conference on Sustainable Development for Small Island Developing States in 1994 the late Dr. Colin Hudson supported by the then Governor-General of Barbados late Dame Nita Barrow
		The late Dr. Colin Hudson supported by the then Governor-General of Barbados late Dame Nita Barrow was the mastermind behind the concept.
		The Future Centre, as an extension of Counterpart Caribbean, hopes to develop into a world-class exhibition model that can be expanded globally on a self-sustaining financial basis feasible for other small island states.
	www.unitedcaribbean.com /villageofhope.html (475 words)

	Amazon.ca: Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow--Social Change and International Development: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/9766401012 (317 words)

	One Fine Day I Shall Walk -- a poem by Dame Nita Barrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One Fine Day I Shall Walk -- a poem by Dame Nita Barrow
		One fine day I shall walk with my head held high
		And the brothers who would like to join us
	www.kalimunro.com /Dame_Nita_Barrow.html (148 words)

	UCHI » Annual Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She was also invited to read her poetry at two events: one in New York (held by Firewheel Editions press) and one in the University of Connecticut Long River Review series.
		New poems appeared this year in Sentence, Barrow Street, and other journals.
		She undertook considerable work on a co-edited anthology of interviews with, and works by, contemporary women poets.
	humanities.uconn.edu /annualreports.html (2710 words)

	WLUML: News and Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Canada: Marieme Hélie-Lucas '2005 Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitor' (Centre for Women's Studies in Education)
		12/11/2005: Feminist activist and political theorist Marieme Hélie-Lucas will give the 9th Annual Dame Nita Barrow public lecture ''Women Living Under Muslim Laws'' on Tuesday, 15 Nov, 19:00 George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Canada.
		Hélie-Lucas will speak about the threat of fundamentalisms to the creation of a democratic world and about the response of feminists and activists at the global and local levels who are struggling to control their lives, bodies and sexuality.
	www.wluml.org /english/newsbyregion.shtml?cmd[53]=c-1-North (8503 words)

	Dr Jocelyn Hezekiah
		In her book "Breaking The Glass Ceiling", Jocelyn Hezekiah RN, PhD, a Trinidadian nursing educator, tells the stories of three Caribbean Nurses, Dame Nita Barrow the late Governor General of Barbados, Berenice Dolly of Trinidad and Dr Mary Seivwright from Jamaica.
		In terms of a multicultural and international perspective, says Dr Hezekiah "one might well ask where, if any, are the nursing leaders of African, Asian and Caribbean heritage in the developing countries?
		For permission to reproduce any part of these articles,
	www.sputnick.com /angela/dr_jocelyn_hezekiah.htm (765 words)

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