Dear Members and Partners of the International Women’s Union!
It is my great honor and joy to greet you on behalf of the International Women’s Union. Our organization, uniting energetic and determined leaders from around the world, builds its activities on three fundamental pillars: business, culture, and public diplomacy.
It is in this triad that we see the strength of the modern woman and the key to the sustainable development of our global community. Business is the driver of economic independence and innovation, which we actively support through our international platforms. Culture is a universal language of mutual understanding, carefully preserving traditional values, family, and national heritage, as vividly reflected in our “Women’s Hands” festival and the “Mother and Children in National Costumes” photo contest. Public diplomacy is the art of building bridges of trust and dialogue beyond any borders, where female wisdom, empathy, and strategic vision create a new architecture of international cooperation.
Through the women’s agenda, we open up unique opportunities for partnership, sharing best practices, and implementing joint projects. Our Union is a global platform where professional growth goes hand in hand with friendly support, and local initiatives gain international resonance.
I sincerely invite you to active cooperation and partnership. Together, we can unlock the maximum potential for development, create meaningful projects, and strengthen solidarity based on creation, respect, and shared values.
It gives me immense pleasure to invite all of you to productive joint growth within the scope of our organization’s work, where the global women’s community will gather to receive support aimed at developing professional, social, and cultural levels, as well as for representing and protecting common interests.
The International Women’s Union is an organization that fully utilizes opportunities related to the promotion of women entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses.
Our experience will give you a chance to be at the forefront of knowledge accumulation, experience sharing, and exchange in a professional yet friendly atmosphere.
We will tackle the tasks of modeling the future, our industries, and beyond. This is a genuine opportunity in turbulent times to lead and realize the maximum possible female potential.
The professional platform “IWU,” its resources, and experience provide a large-scale stage that connects participants with the best solutions. This creates an unprecedented opportunity for conducting international business, interacting at the level of local systems, and exchanging knowledge to realize the concept of globality.
I look forward to the upcoming exchange of experience and the moment when we will have the opportunity to shake each other’s hands!!!
Amirova Alfia Ravilievna
Professional Positions and Memberships
President:
Regional Public Organization “International Women’s Union” (https://www.iwuorg.com/)
International Discussion Club “VISION 3000” (https://vision3000.ru/)
Founder:
Foundation for Support of Cultural Initiatives “Zur Art” (http://www.zurart.ru/)
Digital Media “Embassy Life” (https://embassylife.ru/)
International Festival of Folk Arts and Crafts “Women’s Hands” (http://www.handswomen.com/)
International Business Platform “Woman of the Third Millennium” and “Medical Tourism” Exhibition (http://www.woman3000.org/)
International Photo Contest “Mother and Children in National Costumes” (http://www.ethno-photo.com/)
Membership:
Union of Journalists of Moscow, Russia, International Association of Journalists.
Official Collaborator of the Association of Mediterranean Women Entrepreneurs (AFAEMME).
Honorary Member of the Association “Humanity Within War” (Italy).
Member of Organizing Committees and Juries for:
International Drawing Competition “Humanity Within War” (http://udg.zurart).
All-Russian Patriotic Drawing Competition “Z Patriot” (https://www.zpatrioticpictures.ru/).
Education
Samarkand State University (Russian Philology).
Moscow Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law (Jurisprudence).
Implemented Projects and Grants
Grants:
Presidential Grant (2018): Organization of the “Women’s Hands” festival.
Rosmolodyozh Grant (2019): All-Russian Children’s Drawing Competition “The World of My Home.”
Rosmolodyozh Grant (2020): All-Russian Photo Contest “Mother and Children in National Costumes.”
Moscow Mayor’s Grant (2025): Conference “Formation of Russian and Moscow Cultural Identity.”
Key Projects (2017–2025):
2017, Italy:
Series of photo exhibitions “Russian Garibaldians in the Italian Resistance” (Udine, Verona, Massa).
Goal: Historical education about the role of the USSR in the anti-fascist movement.
2018, Kazan/Strasbourg:
International Festival of Folk Arts and Crafts “Women’s Hands” (85 masters from RF, 15 winners, 27 master classes).
International Forum “Women’s Hands” in Strasbourg with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tatarstan.
2019, Moscow:
Festival of Folk Arts and Crafts “Women’s Hands” with the participation of 120 masters from 40 regions and abroad. Inclusion of works by women prisoners (35 colonies).
2021, Moscow:
3rd International Festival “Women’s Hands” (12 regions of RF, Hungary, Armenia, etc.) with the support of the Ministry of Culture.
2nd International Photo Contest “Mother and Children in National Costumes” (3870 applications, 54 winners).
1st International Forum “Woman of the Third Millennium” (VDNKh).
2022:
3rd International Photo Contest “Mother and Children in National Costumes” within the framework of the Year of Cultural Heritage of Russia.
Festival of Folk Arts and Crafts “Women’s Hands” for women prisoners (81 territorial bodies of the Federal Penitentiary Service, 500+ works) within the framework of the Year of Cultural Heritage of Russia.
2023:
4th International Photo Contest “Mother and Children in National Costumes.”
2nd International Business Forum “Woman of the Third Millennium” (300+ delegates from 15 countries).
1st International Award “Woman of the Third Millennium.”
Monthly meetings of the International Discussion Club “VISION 3000.”
2024:
5th Anniversary International Photo Contest “Mother and Children in National Costumes” under the auspices of UNESCO.
3rd International Forum “Woman of the Third Millennium” (CC GlavUPDK, 300+ participants from 20 countries).
2nd International Award “Woman of the Third Millennium.”
Monthly meetings of the International Discussion Club “VISION 3000.”
2025:
6th International Photo Contest “Mother and Children in National Costumes” under the auspices of UNESCO.
4th International Forum “Woman of the Third Millennium” (CC GlavUPDK, 500+ participants from 32 countries).
3rd International Award “Woman of the Third Millennium.”
Monthly meetings of the International Discussion Club “VISION 3000.”
Awards and Acknowledgments
Letter of gratitude from the Ambassador of Italy to the Russian Federation (2021).
Acknowledgement from the Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (2020).
Acknowledgement from the Council for Nationalities under the Government of Moscow (2020).
Letter of appreciation from the Director of the Moscow NGO Coworking Center (2019).
Special gratitude from the All-Russian Public Movement “Immortal Regiment of Russia” (2017).
Acknowledgement from the Eurasian Center for Project Initiatives for contribution to ensuring peace, harmony, and mutual understanding, developing dialogue, settling conflicts and disagreements, strengthening good neighborliness, bringing countries and peoples closer together, promoting traditional values, and fruitful cooperation (2025).
Letter of appreciation from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to International Organizations in Vienna (UN Office in Vienna) M. Ulyanov (2024).
Letter of appreciation from the Director of the Department for Work with Compatriots Abroad of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs G. Ovechko (2025).
Contacts
Email: iwuorg@gmail.com
Project Websites:
ethno-photo.com
woman3000.org
handswomen.com
https://vision3000.ru/