GlobalPOWER® [Partnership Of Women Elected/Appointed Representatives] is creating sustainable, long term partnerships among a select group of elected women leaders from around the world.  US participants will include a small group of state legislators who have graduated from the Center’s Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators.

The Center launched the GlobalPOWER® program in 2006 with a focus on international trafficking of women and girls as a global human rights crisis.  Women and girls represent 80 percent of the 600,000-plus people who are trafficked throughout the world and forced into involuntary servitude in sweatshops, households, agricultural fields, and brothels. 

The GlobalPOWER® experience helps elected women leaders develop creative policy options and strategies to implement them.

The GlobalPOWER® Class of 2007 included five women Members of Parliament, a Minister of Labour, Public Administration and Empowerment, one Assemblywoman from the Ho Municipal Assembly in Ghana and three graduates of the Center’s Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators. The Class of 2007 met in Washington, DC from May 7 - 11, 2007.

The GlobalPOWER® Class of 2006 included eight women Members of Parliament, a Minister of Women’s Affairs and four graduates of the Center’s Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators. The Class of 2006 met in Washington, DC from May 31 through June 3, 2006.

Click here to read GlobalPOWER® – Report of the First Two Years:  2006 and 2007.

To learn more about GlobalPOWER® and the Class of 2006, please read the GlobalPOWER® Special Issue of NEWS from the Center.