NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva

“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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The NGO CSW, Geneva welcomes the thematic focus on rights of minority women as the theme of the 2011 UN Forum on Minorities. We commend the work of the UN Independant Expert on Minority Issues, Ms Rita Izsak and we recommend that governments and other partners support with appropriate policies and resources the actions that will [...]

A joint statement by the World YWMCA, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) and the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva, “PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY AS INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE: FROM POLICY TO ACTION” has been delivered at the Human Rights Council 18th Session during the annual discussion on the integration [...]

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 – [...]

Committee member Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF) calls to Action in support of a United Nations 5th World Conference on Women to advance this proposal to ECOSOC in July 2011 and to the General Assembly.

Target date would be 2015, 20 years after the 4WCW in Beijing.

Today, the world needs more than ever empowered, creative and committed women to help solve the many problems facing humanity and to reach the Millennium Development Goals.

Downloads : Joint Statement “Convening of a Fifth World Conference on Women”  delivered at the 55th CSW (New-York, 22 February-4 March 2011) :  English version / French version

For more information 5wcw.org