Category: Events
Categories
CEDAW 58th Session – 3rd Week
See http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=814&Lang=en
Categories
CEDAW 58th Session – 2nd week
see http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=814&Lang=en
Categories
CEDAW 58th Session – 1st week
See http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=814&Lang=en
The NGO CSW Geneva & GMPA cordially invite NGO / Civil society to an open caucus on migrant/displaced women and their rights in context of the current session of the Human Rights Council.
- Friday 13 June – 13:30-15:00
- NGO Resource Center, Palais des Nations – Geneva
Purposes
- Bring together advocates and activists addressing migrant women and their rights
- Identify key policy and protection challenges facing migrant/displaced women
- Facilitate collaboration for effective advocacy in defense of migrant women at HRC
- Broaden discussion on migration and migrant women in Beijing +20 review
Speakers
- Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, President, NGO CSW Geneva – Secretary General World YWCA
- Patrick Taran, President, Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
- Joyce Jett, MCDI/SCI, NGO CSW Co-Convener Interactive Roundtable
Download: Event flyer
NGO CSW Geneva hosted a Women’s Rights Caucus during the UN Human Rights Council 25th Session that focussed on Child, Early and Forced Marriage.
Speakers:
- Mirriam Michelo, survivor of child marriage, young woman from the YWCA of Zambia.
- Adwoa Kufuor, Human Rights Officer at the Women’s Rights and Gender Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Facilitator: Marie-Claude Julsaint, Global Programme Manager for Violence against Women, World YWCA.
Download: Event Flyer