NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva

Book Launch:

- UN SCR 1325 and Prevention -

A hybrid for utilizing human rights and early warning frameworks in the campaign to end violence against Women

was organized by Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) and the WG on Women, Peace and Security
on 18th March 2011, at the Palais des Nations.

Speakers:

• HE Bente Angell-Hansen, Ambassador of Norway, Permanent representative to the UN, Vice President / Rapporteur Bureau of the Human Rights Council
• Ecoma Alaga, Former Programme Manager WIPSEN-Africa
• Yvette Chesson-Wureh, Establishment Coordinator, Angie Brooks International Centre on Women Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace & Security
• Isha Dyfan, Chief, Women Human Rights and Gender Section, OHCHR
• Madeleine Rees, Secretary General WILPF, Co-Chair Working Group on Peace

Downloads:

Event Flyer

Electronic version of the book (on FAS website)

The Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva, has published a brochure on the UN-ECE Beijing+15 regional review meeting, the challenge of gender equality in the context of the economic and financial crisis, that was held in October 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.

This booklet can be downloaded as a single document Here !

Parts of its can also be downloaded :

• Overall recommendations
• Regional NGO Reports
• Thematic NGO Reports
• Emerging issues for the ECE

The issue of girl infanticide, or the murder of children because they are female, is of growing concern in contemporary society worldwide. This violation of a girl’s basic right to life requires urgent attention and action. This report, drafted by members of the Working Group on the Girl Child (now part of the WG on Violence against Women and girls), focuses on two main areas: the right to be born (female foeticide) and the right to live (girl infanticide). The Working Group recognizes these two areas as being of particular importance in the education of the concerned societies. This report also identifies many of the root causes of girl infanticide in the private and public sphere of society, thus identifying specific actions to be taken.

This report was published and presented at the 51st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, meeting in New York from 26 February to 9 March 2007, and focusing on the “Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child”. It is hoped that this report will serve as an educational and working tool for civil society, social entrepreneurs, other NGOs and the interfaith community to help them speak out against girl infanticide. Through this report, the Working Group also calls upon governments to get more involved in developing and promoting effective policies to bring an end to the girls’ human rights violation of girl infanticide, everywhere in the world.

Report “A girl’s right to live” for download

Available for download:

Advocacy Notes July 2006

Advocacy Notes July 2006 (French version)