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“The NGO Committee on the Status of Women has been essential in breaking traditional frontiers and in changing the course of a complex and delicate debate on gender equality. It is in this Committee where one hears that in a society where a women has never been discriminated against, exploited or abused, denigrated, or subject to violence, she will give birth and life to communities and nations – and will construct a future – without violence, discrimination, abuse or denigration. It is also here in this Committee where one understands that the future debate on gender and development will not be located only at the surface of our needs or material desires (though essential) but at the most profound level of our existence and human transformation: a transformation that must not become a source of more gender inequality but become a human compass to guide the humanization of development thinking and practice.”
Alfredo Sfeir Younis,
Geneva Special Representative to the UN and the WTO, World Bank Geneva
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Conchita’s Statements
In her many years as the UN representative for the International Federation of University Women – IFUW (from 1994 to 2011!), former NGO CSW Geneva President Conchita Poncini has been a determined advocate for the human rights of women. Over the years, she has written dozens of statements, oral and written, submitted to the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on the Status of Women and many other UN instances. Many of these statements have been co-signed by Committee members and submitted as joint statements.
To commemorate the 2nd anniversary of her death in May 2011, “a few” of these statements have been recovered and are listed below. They all bring the many issues around women’s human rights; and many are still valid today.
- 2001-03 CHR57 Tolerance and Respect
- 2001-05 LDC3 in Brussel
- 2002-08 Sub-CHR58 Women’s Human Rights
- 2003-02 WG Right to dvt
- 2003-03 CSW47 ICT and WSIS
- 2003-04 CHR59 Women’s ESC Rights
- 2003-07 WSIS gender-caucus
- 2003-07 WSSD GHS chemical labelling
- 2005-03 CHR61 ESC Rights
- 2005-04 CHR61 Tech Advisory Services
- 2005-04 CHR61 functionning HR mechanism
- 2005-08 Sub-CHR57 Right to dvt
- 2005-08 Sub-CHR57 Women’s Human Rights
- Date? CHR Gender Mainstreaming and Women’s Human Rights
- 2006-06 HRC1 preparation
- 2006-09 HRC2 Women Rights
- 2006-10 HRC2 Mandates of Special Procedures
- 2006-10 HRC2 UPR
- 2006-12 HRC3 Expert Advisory body
- 2007-03 CSW52 gender approach right to peace
- 2007-06 UNECE CES Unpaid work
- 2007-09 Panel gender perspective in work of HRC
- 2007-09 HRC6 Human Rights Education & Learning
- 2007-10 HRC-Special-5 Myanmar
- 2007-12 CoNGO roundtable gender equality & gender justice
- 2008-03 HRC7 Children are our future generation
- 2008-06 HRC8 VaW
- 2008-06 ILC97
- 2008-09 Freedom of Expression and Interreligious Dialogue
- 2008-09 HRC9 Vienna Declaration
- 2008-09 HRC9 Panel Women’s Rights
- 2008-11 CSW53 Sharing family responsibilities
- 2009-03 HRC10 Economic Crisis
- 2009-03 CSW53
- 2009-04 Durban Review
- 2009-09 HRC12 Gender Perspective Integration
- 2010-02 CSW54 traditional practices
- 2010-03 HRC13 Traditional Values
- 2011-03 HRC16 Afghan Women and Girls
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NGO CSW Geneva participation at the CSO meeting on the Advisory Committee Declaration on the Right to Peace on Thursday 24 January 2012
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