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Beth Brooke is talking on a panel about 'Women and Finance: The high cost of exclusion'. We will tweet the highlights here and on #TWConf12

by Ernst & Young @ Work via twitter 12/5/2012 1:30:25 PM
Chi parla per le #donne #arabe? Diario londinese/1 @trustwomenconf http://27esimaora.corriere.it/articolo/chi-parla-per-le-donne-arabe-trust-women-un-diario-londinese1/ #twconf12 @La27ora

by viviana mazza via twitter 12/5/2012 1:42:12 PM
We're about to hear from the action group on "Women and Finance - The High Cost of Exclusion" - great selection of panellists: Michaela Bergman from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Beth Brooke from Ernst & Young, Lamiya Morshed from the Yunus Centre and Chetna Sinha, of Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank.

by Astrid Zweynert @TR_Foundation 12/5/2012 1:51:08 PM
"Stuprata e venduta dai genitori" Trust Women, diario londinese/2 La 27esima ora http://27esimaora.corriere.it/articolo/stuprata-e-venduta-dai-miei-genitori-trust-women-un-diario-londinese2/ @trustwomenconf #twconf12 @la27ora

by viviana mazza via twitter 12/5/2012 1:54:39 PM
TrustWomenConf -World Bnk Pascale Dubois says corruption not just bribes, it's sexual extortion e.g. female pupils in Botswana #TWConf12

by Angela Henshall via twitter 12/5/2012 2:00:49 PM
How to put the trafficking business out of business? asks Tim Large #twconf12 Looking forward to some concrete answers to a problem that's worth $32 bln/yr

by Katherine Baldwin 12/5/2012 2:05:05 PM
More than 4 million female victims of sex trafficking today, but there are many others form of trafficking, labour, forced marriage, says video at start of human trafficking action group #twconf12

by Katherine Baldwin 12/5/2012 2:06:02 PM
Session on finance and exclusion of women starting@trustwomenconf #twconf12

by 50_50_oD via twitter 12/5/2012 2:06:06 PM
How to put the trafficking business out of business? Action group about to discuss @TrustWomenConf #twconf12 #trafficking #slavery

by TrustLaw_Women via twitter 12/5/2012 2:07:32 PM
How to put the trafficking business out of business? Action group about to discuss @TrustWomenConf #twconf12 #trafficking #slavery

by Trust Women via twitter 12/5/2012 2:07:32 PM
How to put the trafficking business out of business? Action group about to discuss @TrustWomenConf #twconf12 #trafficking #slavery

by trust_law via twitter 12/5/2012 2:07:33 PM
Are women financially excluded? asks Chrystia Freeland to kick of session on women and fnancial exclusion

by Astrid Zweynert @TR_Foundation 12/5/2012 2:09:45 PM
Excited to hear panel on, How to put the trafficking business out of business moderator' #twconf12 instagr.am/p/S243BMKhbU/

by ICTDBabe via twitter 12/5/2012 2:09:54 PM
David Batstone of Not For Sale @NFS says we need more funds to fight human #trafficking #twconf12 business must be involved

by TrustLaw_Women via twitter 12/5/2012 2:09:56 PM
David Batstone of Not For Sale @NFS says we need more funds to fight human #trafficking #twconf12 business must be involved

by Trust Women via twitter 12/5/2012 2:09:57 PM
David Batstone of Not For Sale @NFS says we need more funds to fight human #trafficking #twconf12 business must be involved

by trust_law via twitter 12/5/2012 2:09:57 PM
At @TrustWomenConf in discussion looking at how to put the trafficking business out of business @#twconf12 #trafficking #slavery

by JulieTomlin via twitter 12/5/2012 2:10:51 PM
Standby for our tweets from @TrustWomenConf as Beth Brooke takes to the stage #twconf12

by Ernst & Young @ Work via twitter 12/5/2012 2:11:16 PM
"Ett kilo kokain säljer du en enda gång men en kvinna kan du sälja om och om igen" sa en man dömd för Trafficking till Lydia Cacho.#twconf12

by pascalidou via twitter 12/5/2012 2:11:42 PM
Women's access to money core of the issue says C Freeland @TrustWomenConf #twconf12. Virginia Woolf said it all in a Room of One's Own

by 50_50_oD via twitter 12/5/2012 2:11:50 PM
http://www.stopthetraffik.org great work being done here @STOPTHETRAFFIK #twconf12

by Stephen Hall via twitter 12/5/2012 2:11:54 PM
Michaela Bergman of EBRD says principal reason women are financially excluded is because the don't have access to capital. She points out that gender-specific inheritance rights also play a part. Even where laws are in place, they often aren't implemented

by Astrid Zweynert @TR_Foundation 12/5/2012 2:11:59 PM
First question to the panel on finance and women - "Are women financially excluded, and if so, why?" #twconf12

by Ernst & Young @ Work via twitter 12/5/2012 2:12:34 PM
David Batstone of Not For Sale @NFS says we need more money to fight human trafficking. Business must be involved. He says 75 percent of women in Amsterdam come from Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, mostly from deprived communities #twconf12 Not For Sale is about creating opportunities for futures. He says NFS gets to know the young women then comes up with an economic strategy. They started a soup company in Amsterdam to help the women. They now have a soup company in the Red Light District, that's serving women, police and local technology companies. They asked women to get involved in the recipes. We're catering and customising our product for our demographic, he says.

by Katherine Baldwin 12/5/2012 2:13:25 PM
Listening to the good work of Not for Sale is doing through enterprise @NFS #twconf12

by FdL Development via twitter 12/5/2012 2:13:29 PM
EBRD looking at how we can address lack of collateral among women - says Bergman

by Astrid Zweynert @TR_Foundation 12/5/2012 2:13:44 PM
Can we get Not for Sale soup in our office? @NFS #twconf12

by FdL Development via twitter 12/5/2012 2:14:07 PM
Bergman says: Question for all of us here is what we can do to change laws that restrict women's access to property. My call to action is to look at what we can do to improve women's access to collateral

by Astrid Zweynert @TR_Foundation 12/5/2012 2:14:34 PM
#TWConf12 4M women trafficked for sex, sweat shops, criminal activity. $32B global industry. Aggregate budgets of those dealing it $125M.

by Jason Mollring via twitter 12/5/2012 2:15:34 PM
NFS now has a training programme where women are learning to be chefs and caterers, it creates a new way of thinking about their futures, more possibilities, says Batstone #twconf12 Soup, or whatever product you make, comes from somewhere. I want to be part of a generation where I'm not consuming someone's suffering, says Batstone. How about sourcing the soup from farms that are helping to provide opportunities to the most desperate areas that are supplying women for trafficking. That's what we did, he says. Create the demand, create the consumer product and link it back to the communities that really need support, he says.

by Katherine Baldwin 12/5/2012 2:16:23 PM
'Let girls be girls for as long as possible': Our video interview with Christy Turlington from #twconf12 http://gu.com/p/3cad2/tw #globaldev

by LizFordGuardian via twitter 12/5/2012 2:16:23 PM
Michaela Bergman from @EBRD calls for change in legislation to increase women's access to property #twconf12

by Trust Women via twitter 12/5/2012 2:16:32 PM
Beth Brooke from Ernst & Young says private sector can huge force for change. But the one thing she thinks is really important business is motivated by it's own self-interest...it has to deliver results. If you can meet business where it is, you can be really successful. Financial inclusion of women - business is increasingly realising that it is in its own interest. Why? She mentions jobs as an example. Private sector struggles to find good staff.

by Astrid Zweynert @TR_Foundation 12/5/2012 2:17:56 PM
Beth Brooke - Ernst and Young - biggest aha is that business is motivated by what is in its own interest #twconf12

by Women Worldwide via twitter 12/5/2012 2:18:17 PM
David Batstone describes how @NFS helps get women out of #trafficking, creating economic opportunities for them #twconf12

by TrustLaw_Women via twitter 12/5/2012 2:18:40 PM
David Batstone describes how @NFS helps get women out of #trafficking, creating economic opportunities for them #twconf12

by Trust Women via twitter 12/5/2012 2:18:41 PM
David Batstone describes how @NFS helps get women out of #trafficking, creating economic opportunities for them #twconf12

by trust_law via twitter 12/5/2012 2:18:41 PM
Brooke says women are an emerging market - women all over the world are coming into the workforce...and also as consumer

by Astrid Zweynert @TR_Foundation 12/5/2012 2:19:21 PM
Economic empowerment of women helps communities...education increases, sanitation improves...there is a country business case, says Brooke

by Astrid Zweynert @TR_Foundation 12/5/2012 2:20:28 PM
Beth Brooke-What can women bring? Corporate business case-Workforce: talent, diversity, innovation, women are an emerging market, #twconf12

by Women Worldwide via twitter 12/5/2012 2:20:38 PM
Gaps in gov't policy contribute to abuse and exploitation of domestic workers, says Nisha Varia from @HRW

by Trust Women via twitter 12/5/2012 2:20:40 PM
Tim Large, editor @tr_foundation moderating the trafficking business panel discussion @TrustWomenConf #twconf12 p.twimg.com/A9W45jaCMAEqXIO.jpg

by florentinadiacu via twitter 12/5/2012 2:20:42 PM
David Batstone: end trafficking by law, in support of political & economic processes, but fooling ourselves to think law is enough #TWConf12

by sarahejewell via twitter 12/5/2012 2:20:46 PM
Women & Finance: The High Cost of Exclusion. Great topic and panel for Day 2 of Trust Women Conference. #twconf12

by LBRSS via twitter 12/5/2012 2:21:17 PM
Beth Brooke - change the language so that private sector can connect and engage with women as economic agents #twconf12

by Women Worldwide via twitter 12/5/2012 2:22:03 PM