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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The Committee’s General Assembly will take place onMonday 27 June from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Bureau Election will be held by secret ballot.
In relation to this upcoming General Assembly, the minutes of the Conveners meeting that took place on 28th of March can be downloaded here
Dear friends and colleagues of Conchita,
As members of the NGO-CSW Bureau of which Conchita was President, as her close colleagues and friends, we would like to extend a very warm invitation to you to join us to share memories together, enjoy some music and a light snack in a warm atmosphere- in her memory.
The memorial meeting will be held from 17:30 -19:30 on June the 15th in the Congo Office, beginning from 18:00 with the program.
There will be an opportunity to express your thoughts, feelings and memories and/ or to do so in writing in a commemoration book which will be available that evening. Those letters, which have already been sent to us, so deeply appreciated by Conchita’s family, will also be included.
We are very grateful for those planning to bring drinks, cakes or snacks to be shared by all!
Very sincerely,
Carolyn Handschin, Secretary for the NGO-CSW Bureau
(Krishna Ahoojapatel, Simone Ovart, Ursula Barter, Joyce Jett)
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.
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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
The WG on Culture of Peace will meet on May 11, 2011, 14h30-16h30 in the CoNGO Conference Room.