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The 5th World Conference on Women and Sport will be held in 2010 in Sydney, Australia.It is being organised under the auspices of the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) with the support of NSW Sport and Recreation, University of Technology Sydney and Sydney Olympic Park Authority.It follows those conferences held in Brighton, U.K. (1994); Windhoek, Namibia (1998), Montreal, Canada (2002) and Kumamoto, Japan (2006).The Organising Committee will publish information on this site in relation to dates, venues, themes etc as soon as it becomes available. To keep up to date with all the latest conference information and other news, make sure you subscribe to our e-newsletter by clicking here.

This conference will provide an opportunity to:

• Review the progress for women and sport since the 2006 World Conference on Women and Sport in Kumamoto, Japan, sharing experiences and celebrating achievements.

• Strengthen international networks, both within sport and with outside agencies.

• Foster inter-agency collaboration between international, regional, national and community levels.

• Strengthen and support the development of Women and Sport within the Oceania Region.

• Provide a vision for the continued development and progress of the global women and sport movement form 2010 - 2014.