NGO CSW GenevaPanel on the current situation of girls and women in Afghanistan
on Thursday, June 9 from 3-5 in Room XXV
This Panel follows up on the letter that the Committe sent to the HRC President and others concerning the very disturbing report of Dec 9, 2010 from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. The person who wrote that report will be among the speakers.
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A High Level Panel will be held as a side-event during the Human Rights Council – 17th Session
FGM – FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION PROGRESS – REALITIES – CHALLENGES
on June 1, 2011 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. in the Palais des Nations, Geneva.
Download: Event’s Flyer (with list of speakers)
Conchita Poincini as President of the NGO Committere on the Status of Women Geneva and Convener of the Working Group on Women’s Employment and the Economics of Gender was adamant on organising a two hour lunch event in preparation of the ILO Labour Conference (ILC), which is to be held June 1-17, 2011.
The ILO Labor Conference will discuss for the second year running the adoption of a Convention and/or Recommendation on “Domestic Workers” a particularly exploited and unprotected group of workers, who are mostly women.
In relation to this conference, the NGO-CSW Working Groups on Employment & the Economics of Gender, Displaced Women and Women’s Right to Health, will hold a panel on
“Domestic Work: Human Rights of Women- Towards an ILO Convention on Domestic Workers”
on Monday, May 30, 2011
in Room S4 at the Palais des Nations.
The Event Flyer can be downloaded here
We are pleased to have Mary Balikungeri, Founder and Director of the Rwanda Women Community Development Network speak to us about her work with displaced women, violence and peace building in Rwanda.
We will meet at the CoNGO Board Room at 11 Ave de la Paix
on Thursday April 21st from 13:00 – 15:00.
Looking forward to seeing you then.
Krishna Ahoojapatel & Joyce Jett
Co-Conveners NGO-CSW Working Group on Displaced Women
On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the NGO CSW Geneva organized a roundtable on “Celebrating Women’s Rights: Higher Education – Pathway to Gender Equality and Decent Work”, which was held on 8 March 2011 in the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Speakers:
• Kyung-Wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights – see her statement (on the OHCHR website)
• Patricia Schultz, CEDAW Committee, former Director of Federal Department of Equality in Switzerland
• Daniel Kull, World Bank
• Marianne Haslegrave, President, International Federation of University Women (IFUW)
• Jane Hodges, Director, ILO Bureau for Gender Equality
Download: Event report by Carolyn Handschin, Women’s Federation for World Peace, Int’l.
On 2 September 2010, the Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, chaired by Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) and co-chaired by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), organized, as a pre-side Event to the review process of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, a panel discussion on the mechanisms of Prevention.
Speakers:
Chair: Ms Madeleine Rees, Secretary General, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
The Event flyer can be downloaded here.
This Event was held on Monday 8 March 2010 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, and included 2 panels.
I. 10:00- 11:00am: “2010: Watershed for Women’s Human Rights and Empowerment”
Focus on the integration of women’s rights in the UN System with reference to innovative ideas, such as a better co-ordination between CEDAW and the UPR of the Human Rights Council.
Moderator: Conchita Poncini (IFUW) President NGO CSW- Geneva
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II. 11:00- 12:00: “Beijing + 15: Creating New Mechanisms to Accelerate the Implementation of the Platform for Action”
Consideration of the effectiveness of some of the emerging mechanisms such as the recently adopted UNGA resolution to set up a composite entity in the UN on women, implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security”, as well as SCR 1820, 1888 and 1889
Moderator: Krishna Ahoojapatel (WILPF) Vice- president, NGO CSW-Geneva
Speakers:
Events reports & statements for download:
A report on this event made by WILPF
Statement by Madame Navanethem Pillay, United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights (also on the OHCHR website)
Statement by Ambassador Marius Grinius, Canada
Statement by Madame Natalie Fisher-Spalton, Deputy Secretary General of World YWCA
Statement by Madame Annelise Ebbe, International Co-President of WILPF
Special presentation on 4 November 2009 in the Palais de Nations in Geneva :
“The Global Economic Crisis and the Empowerment of Women”
by MAYRA BUVINIC
Director of the Gender in Poverty Reduction Vice Presidency of the WORLD BANK
In preparation for the Beijing+15 54th Commission on the Status of Women in 2010, the World Bank in Geneva and the CoNGO Geneva NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW) have invited Ms. Mayra Buvinic to present the Bank’s strategy and policy in approaching the financial and economic crisis from a women’s empowerment and gender equal perspective and how gender equality is mainstreamed in the Bank.
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Event Report by Conchita Poncini (IFUW)