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International Women’s Day 2011: “Celebrating Women’s Rights: Higher Education – Pathway to Gender Equality and Decent Work”

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 – […]

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.