Category: CSW
The Young Leaders Caucus YLC is an organization of young people, mostly young women, that was born during the Geneva NGO Forum Beijing+20 UN ECE Review organized by the NGO CSW Geneva in November 2014.
Following up on substantive work done for the NGO Forum, YLC cordially invites you to a CSW59 Side-Event on
Human Rights and Migrant Women
on 11 March 10:30-12:00 at CCUN Chapel, New York
Speakers:
- Alicia Arbid, Arab Women’s Solidarity Organization – Belgium, European Network of Migrant Women
- Melissa Garcia Velez, New York State Youth Leadership Council
- Dylan Terry, Young Leaders Caucus, Global Migration Policy Associates
- Representative from DRUM tbc – South Asian Organizing Center
Moderator:: Jitka Markova, European Network of Migrant Women, Migrant Women’s Platform (UK)
Download: Event Flyer
On 17 June, Paulette Senior, a representative from World YWCA delivered a joint Statement at the UN Women Board meeting in New York.
Co-signed by 22 members of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, the joint statement calls, among others, for additional support for UN Women and civil society groups working in the so-called “hard to reach communities”, as well as gender budgeting principles to be included in the resourcing frameworks of the new development agenda.
Download: NGO CSW Geneva Statement to UN Women Board (17 June 2014)
“We have to think of a very bold goal – one that can be destiny changing.”
Un Women Executive Director, Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, on the post-2015 agenda
After concluding a two-day conference in Geneva to support women’s participation and voice in the Syrian peace process, and before flying off to London for another pressing engagement, UN Women Executive Director, Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, met with members of NGO CSW Geneva on 15 January for a first encounter and open dialogue.
Read the full report on this meeting, kindly shared by NGO SCW Geneva member FAWCO
This meeting was organized by the coalition on the Human Right to Peace, which is headed by the Spanish Society for International Human Rights Law, on Thursday 24 January, 10:00 – 13:00, Room XVI of the Palais des Nations, with the support of the NGO Liaison office (moderation by M. Espinoza).
H.E. C. Guillermet, Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the UN in Geneva and Chair of the intergovernmental Open Ended Intergovernmental Working Group in charge of finalizing the Adisory Committee draft declaration on the Right to Peace, highlighted the importance of the contribution of Civil Society since the beginning of the process, and encouraged present NGO representatives to persevere. He stated his intention to follow what he called a “TICO” approach for the upcoming work on the declaration of the Right to Peace, i.e. to work in a Transparent, Inclusive, Consensual & Objective way. He also highlighted the necessity to better understand the reasons behind the reluctance of some countries to this new Right.
The NGO CSW Geneva was strongly represented among CSO participating at the meeting, with about 10 members delivering statements. These statements highlighted the strong gender dimension of Peace, but at the same time were very diverse, reflecting the diversity of women issues in relation to Peace. In addition, many of these statements pointed to the necessity of highlighting the link between a Right to Peace and all existing Human Rights and corresponding instruments.
See also the introduction by Colette Samoya (Bangwee & Dialogue), facilitator of the Committee’s initiative on the Right to Peace (in French)
NGO CSW Geneva members statements at this meeting:
- Bangwee & Dialogue (Colette Samoya)
- Brama Kumaris World Spiritual University (Valériane Bernard)
- Inter African Committee – IAC (Adebisi Adebayo)
- International Council of Women – ICW (Jeannine de Boccard)
- Ius Primi Viri – IPV (Angelamaria Loreto)
- Make Mothers Matter int – MMMI (Valerie Bichelmeier)
- Sokka Gakai International (Kazunari Fujii)
- Worldwide Organization for Women – WOW (Mutua Kobua)
- Women Women World Summit Foundation – WWSF (Elly Pradervand)
- ZONTA (Simone Ovart)
Other downloads:
- Program of the meeting
- Report on the meeting (by the Spanish Society for International HR Law)
See also the web page of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Peace
The NGO CSW-Geneva supports the holding of a 5th World Conference on Women including the 20 Year Review of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995). The Committee’s Position Paper on a 5th Women Conference on Women provides the background to this decision, the rationale for such support and the key issues for considerations.