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Ginette KARIREKINYANA
Promotor of ACECI, Ginette Karirekinyana has been appointed
president director general by a general assembly resolution
on 22 June 2007. She holds a master's degree in philosophy
from the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaounde-Cameroon,
a DEA (advanced studies diploma) in philosophy obtained
from the St-Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon, where
she has also started a PhD until 2003. Since that date
she has been doing research in applied ethics as a member
of Marie-Hélène Parizeau's team, "la
Chaire de recherche en Bioéthique et en éthique
de l’environnement" at the Laval University
in Quebec, Canada. As a research assistant, she has
undertaken a study on genetic and social discrimination,
financed by Génome Canada and Génome Québec.
She has also worked for the CRBR, a research center
on the biology of reproduction, at the laboratorium
on ethics and biotechnologies, supervised by Lyne Létourneau.
Inside this team, Ginette Karirekinyana's research has
focused on social responsibility of private companies
working in agricultural bio-engineering in developing
countries. In the summer of 2007, she has been carrying
out research on NEPAD together with Charles Moumouni.
At present, she is a teaching assistant in business
ethics at the Laval University.
As a DESS student (Diplôme d’Études
Supérieures Spécialisées) in applied
ethics, she is a member of IDEA (Institut d’Éthique
appliquée). She is finalising her thesis on «Intersubjectivité
et Humanisme pour une éthique de la responsabilité».
Her fields of interest are: ethics, philosophical anthropology,
social responsibility of private companies and international
organisations, North-South relations, cooperation and
development.
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| Élaine HEMOND
Special advisor
Élaine Hémond is a consultant and trainer, expert in Gender and Democracy issues, working at national and international levels. Until recently, she was co-director of the Quebec-based « Centre de développement femmes et gouvernance », whose aim is to support women’s leadership.
She is the founder of the « Groupe Femmes, Politique et Démocratie (GFPD) » of which she has been the chairperson, then the director, from 1997 to 2007. In 2007, the GFPD has enlarged its field of action through the creation, in partnership with the « École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) », of the « Centre de développement femmes et gouvernance ».
A journalist for 20 years and an author on education, Élaine Hémond holds a master in this discipline. Her dissertation focused on the necessity for women to engage in the democratic process. She has also coordinated, at the publishing house « Septembre Éditeur », the writing of several educational books for girls (Folles du Génie, Folles des Puces, Folles de la Politique). She has also authored a novel, La femme de Rondinara, published by Éditions JCL, in Québec, and by Succès du Livre, in France.
Élaine Hémond is a woman of the field, an educator and a communicator. In 2007 she has received the Prize of Canada’s General Governor in memory of the Case « Person ». This prize, the most important one in the field of female condition, recognizes the contribution of its laureates to the rooting and spreading of the concept of gender equality, and also, above all, its actual concretization.
She’s a member of the « Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec » and a member of the board of directors of the « Institut du Nouveau-Monde ». |
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Audrey PELLETIER
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Assistant to the director
Audrey Pelletier coordinates notably a team of volunteers for the organisation of the "5 to 7 of the cooperation here and elsewhere".
Bachelor of Laws, Audrey Pelletier is interested in International public law. It is in this framework that she has participated in a research project in cooperation with Amnesty International and Lawyers Without Borders on the recognition of the rights of indigenous people in Columbia. She took the course International Labour Law at Laval University, and participated in the United Nations Simulation in February 2008. All these have forged her interest for diverse socio-economic and juridical problems at the international level. |
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