UN HRC Panel: UN Universal Periodic Review & Violence Against Women & Girls

The UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of UN Member States is an important mechanism/opportunity for NGO's to review gender components of individual country UPR Reports on human rights. The Final Reports of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group often contains gender-focused text that can be very useful in advocacy for the human rights of women and girls.

"The issue of violence against women was by far the most prominent of UPR Review recommendations made by countries on women's rights.......Within violence, the issue that received the more attention was Domestic Violence...which was followed by Female Genital Mutilation and Rape, and also Sexual Violence."

Distinguished Speakers:

OHCHR - Chief of Women's Rights & Gender - Ms. Isha Dyfan
Due Diligence Project - Ms. Janine Moussa, Co-Director
Center for Women's Global Leadership - CWGL, Rutgers University - Ms. Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom - WILPF - Ms. Maria Munoz Maraver
WUNRN - Women's UN Report Network - Ms. Lois A. Herman, Coordinator - UPR Power Point

Moderator: Ms. Afton Beutler, Worldwide Organization for Women – WOW