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HRC20 side-event on 2 July 2012: Reproductive Health & Rights – Exploring gaps and new paths

Date: Monday 2 July 2012, 13:00-15:00
Room XXIV, Palais des Nations

Objectives:

  • To identify gaps and solutions from different perspectives
  • To strengthen advocacy for the accelerated implementation of the ICPD Plan of Action

 

Chair and introduction: Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda: President, NGO Committee on the Status of Women,

Geneva Rapporteur: Joyce Jett, Medical Care Development International

Panel: 

  • Where do we stand with Reproductive Rights and the ICPD review? Alanna Armitage, Director, UNFPA Office, Geneva
  • Rio+20 and Reproductive Rights Beatriz Schultess, Senior Associate, Conference of NGOs with Consultative Status to the UN , CoNGO
  • Family Planning and Reproductive Health in the Developing World Dr. Karim Abawi, Gynaecologist, Expert in Reproductive Health and Training Programmes
  • Defining Reproductive Rights – an Evolution Dr. Krishna Ahoojapatel, Women and Development, former President of NGO CSW Geneva
  • Innovation and Technology: Tools to Protect Reproductive Health and Rights Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger, University of Geneva Public Health School, Vice-President NGO CSW Geneva

 

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HRC20 – Informal Briefing on the ICPD Beyond 2014 review on 28 June

An UNFPA event co-sponsored by the NGO CSW Geneva, along with the permanent missions of Bangladeh, Colombia, Finland, Mozambique, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway.

on Thursday 28 June 2012, 13:00 – 14:30
Room 22 in the Palais des Nations

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HRC20 side-event: Harmful traditional Practices against Women and Girls on 27 June

Date: Wednesday, June 27th, 20l2 – Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Palais des Nations – Room IX – Geneva

Distinguished Speakers:

UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights – Ms. Farida Shaheed

UN Special Rapporteur on the Violence Against Women – Ms. Rashida Manjoo (Invited)

Chief of Women’s Rights & Gender Section – OHCHR – Ms. Isha Dyfan

Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations Geneva – Ms. Manon Boisclair – Second Secretary, Human Rights

World YWCA General Secretary & President of NGO Committee on the Status of Women Geneva, Ms. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda

WUNRN – Women’s UN Report Network – Power Point – Ms. Lois A. Herman, WUNRN Coordinator

Moderator:

Inter-African Committee Geneva – Dr. Adebisi Adebayo

Objectives of this side event:

  • To provide more understanding on the subject and exact actions needed for the achievement of total abandonment of the harmful traditional/cultural practices.
  • To provide clarity on the need for international monitoring mechanisms to accurately gauge States’ compliance with international obligations to which they are a party.
  • To provide interpretation to developed actions and interventions
  • To get further insight into the concept of ‘due diligence’ and remedies.

Downloads;

  • Event flyer
  • Presentation of Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, World YWCA General Secretary & President of NGO CSW Geneva

 

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HRC20 WFWP Int. Side Events: Annual Women’s Conference for Peace in the Middle East

10:00 – 12:00 : Women speak on “protecting children during conflict and tragedy: the roles of family, community, government and the UN”

15:00 – 17:00: “Empowering young women for peacebuilding and conflict prevention”.

Room XII in the Palais des Nations

More information on the event flyer

 

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HRC20 Side Events: Women, Peace and Security in the MENA region on 22 June

12:00 – 14:00 Room XXV

Moderators: Madeleine Rees (WILPF)
Speakers: Women from the MENA Region

See also event flyer

 

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WTO Public Forum 2012

“Is Multilateralism in crisis?”

More info on www.wto.org/english/forums_e/public_forum12_e/public_forum12_e.htm

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HRC20 side-event: women leadership and political participation on June 18

Organized by FAS in collaboration with the missions of Finland and Senegal
on June 18 – 1:00-3:00 pm – room XXII Palais des Nations

More information on the event flyer

 

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UNRISD Event: Multiple Global Crises and Gender: Rethinking Alternative Paths for Development

On 25 June, 13:00-15:00, room XI
in Palais des Nation, room

More information on www.unrisd.org  > Events

 

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NGO CSW Geneva – HRC20 Caucus meeting on June 19

9:00 – 10:00 in the NGO Resource Center, Palais des Nations

Download: Minutes of the meeting

 

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HRC20 side event: Expert Meeting – Violence against Women and the Human Right to Peace

Date: Wednesday, June 27th, 20l2 – Time: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Palais des Nations – Room XXIV

Distinguished Speakers:

Representative of Bangladesh government

Deputy Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations in Geneva – H. E. Abdul Samad Minty, Ambassador (to be confirmed)

Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations in Geneva – H. E. Maria Nazareth Farani Azevedo, Ambassador (to be confirmed)

Co-Chair, Civil Society Advisory Group to the UN on Women and Peace & Security – Femmes Africa Solidarite (FAS), Ms. Bineta Diop, Executive Director (to be confirmed)

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) – Madeleine Rees, Secretary General of WILPF (to be confirmed)

Slide Presentation: WUNRN – Women’s UN Report Network – Ms. Lois A. Herman, Coordinator

Representative of UN Women

President of the SSIHRL – Prof. Carlos Villán Durán

Moderator:

World Council of Churches – Christina Papazoglou, Responsible of the Human Rights Desk