Category: Women’s Health
WOMEN & THE RIGHT TO WATER – HIGH LEVEL PANEL
September 26, 20ll 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Palais des Nations – Room XXI
Distinguished Speakers:
- UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water & Sanitation – Ms. Catarina De Albuquerque – Statement
- ISIS International – Ms. Bianca Miglioretto & Ms. Marilee Karl
- WEDO – Women’s Environment & Development Organization – Ms. Katherine McDonald, Board of Directors
- MADRE – Ms.Diana Duarte, Communications Director
- Swiss Red Cross – Mr.Lorenz Indermuehle – Water & Sanitation
- Gender & Water Alliance
- WUNRN – Women’s UN Report Network – Power Point on Global Issues of Women & The Right to Water – Ms. Lois A. Herman
Panel Moderator – Ms. Hendrica Okondo, World YWCA Global Programme Manager for SRHR & HIV and Regional Focal Point for Africa
Sponsors:
- CoNGO NGO Committee on the Status of Women – Geneva
- WUNRN – Women’s UN Report Network
- ISIS International
- MADRE
- WEDO – Women’s Environment & Development Organization
- Gender & Water Alliance
- World YWCA
- Worldwide Organization for Women – WOW
- FAWCO – Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas
Downloads:
- Event Flyer
- SR Water & Sanitation Statement-Women & The Right to Water Panel-HRC 18
- Statement ISIS : Women ans the Right to Water
OLDER WOMEN & THE RIGHT TO HEALTH – High Level Panel
on September 26, 20ll – l:00 – 3:00 p.m.
in the Palais des Nations, Geneva – Room XXI
Distinguished Speakers:
- Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health – Mr. Anand Grover – Report on the Study on the Realization of the Right to Health of Older Persons
- Brazil Permanent Mission to the United Nations – Geneva
- World Health Organization – UN WHO – Ageing & Life Course Department
- CoNGO NGO Committee on Ageing Geneva – Geneva International Network on Ageing – Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger
- Ms. Ferdous Ara Begum – Former CEDAW Committee Member – Bangladesh – Chair on Working Group for General Recommendation on Rights of Older Women
- HelpAge International – Ms. Bridget Sleap
- International Disability Alliance – Mr. Facundo Chavez Penillas, VP RIADIS
- CoNGO NGO Committee on Mental Health – NYC – Statement
- WUNRN – Women’s UN Report Network – Power Point on Global Issues of Older Women & Health – Ms. Lois A. Herman
- Testimonial of an Older Rural Woman from a developing country, Tanzania, focusing on challenges of health issues and services.
Panel Moderator – Ms. Hendrica Okondo, World YWCA Global Programme Manager for SRHR & HIV and Regional Focal Point for Africa
Downloads:
Dear Colleagues,
We cordially invite you to join us at the NGO CSW Women’s Right to Health WG
on Wednesday, 25 May from 4 to 6 p.m. (CoNGO Meeting Room)
and look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes,
Afton and Manjit
Co-Convenors, NGO CSW Women’s Right to Health
Download: Meeting-agenda
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
This forwarded information from Dr. Islam of the WHO Making Childbirth Safer Division regarding media from the Women’s Deliver Conference AND the Agenda for the NGO CSW Women’s Right to Health WG on Wednesday, 23 June from 4:30 to 6 p.m. .taking place at the CoNGO meeting room.
Hope to see you there!
Afton and Manjit
Co-convenors of the NGO CSW
Women’s Right to Health WG