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Events Calendar
Morning Briefing NGO Committee on the Advancement of Women
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM, Conf. Room 2
Tuesday 28 February 2006
Wednesday 1 March 2006
Friday 3 March 2006
Monday 6 March 2006
Tuesday 7 March 2006
Wednesday 8 March 2006
Thursday 9 March 2006
Friday 10 March 2006
NGO
Committee on the Status of Women
Annual Consultation:
CSW at 50: Glancing Back, Moving Forward
Sunday, 26
February 2006, 8:30am - 6pm
New York University (NYU)
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Statements:
Ms.
Rachel Mayanja, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
Panel: Forward Looking Issues and Advocacy Strategies
Ms.
Carolyn Hannan, Director, Division for the Advancement of
Women
Plenary 1: 50 years of CSW
NGO
Committee on the Status of Women
High Level Roundtables on CSW50 Themes
Round Table 1
* Enhanced participation of women in development: an enabling
environment for achieving gender equality and the advancement
of women, taking into account, inter alia, the fields of education,
health and work.
9 February
2006, 1:15-2:20pm
Conference Room 2, UN HQ, New York
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Round
Table 2
* Equal participation of women and men in decision-making
processes at all levels
14 February 2006,
1:15-2:20pm
Conference Room 3, UN HQ, New York
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Extracts
from WILPF CSW50 Statement:
- We support and commend the recent establishment
of the Peacebuilding Commission and recognize the important
role it can play in ensuring lasting and sustainable peace.
We urge the Peacebuilding Commission to take seriously the
call in the resolution establishing the Commission (A/60/L.40)
to integrate a gender perspective in all its work (Article
20) and to involve women’s organizations in its activities
(Article 21) both in the immediate post-conflict stage of
the Commission’s operation and as it moves into the
development stage in post-conflict reconstruction, keeping
in mind always the call in UNSCR 1325 “to ensure increased
representation of women at all decision-making levels in
national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms
for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict.”
- WILPF emphazises the need for the UN
system and Member States to recognize that violence against
women, including sexual and gender-based violence and continuing
impunity for such violence creates serious obstacles and
challenges to the full and active participation of women
in these and all other decision making processes. We urge
all relevant actors, including those within the UN system,
Member States and parties to armed conflict, to take special
measures to protect women from all such forms of violence
and for parties to armed conflict to respect fully international
law as set out in Article 9 of UNSCR 1325 and to this end,
support international and national courts (including the
International Criminal Court) truth and reconciliation commissions
and all other transitional justice mechanisms that pursue
the goal of ending impunity.
NGO LINKS:
Global
Action to Prevent War & Armed Conflict
Women's
Environment & Development Organization
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