NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva

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

Orgnaized by Bangwee & Dialogue
Monday 4 March, 12:00-14:00
Palais des Nations Room XXVII

More information on the Flyer

20 September – 16:00-18:00
Room XVII – Palais des Nations

This 67-minutes film portrays the lives of women of a remote village of the Indian Himalayas, notably following a young lady called Hema. Avani, a local NGO, has proposed to install solar panels and thus bring modernity to the village. In order to finance this modernization, Avani encourages women to restart weaving, a traditional craft that is thus revived and that changes the life of these women…

The film will be presented by Catherine Addor-Confino, filmmaker. Over the past 13 years, Catherine has spent half of her time in this region, immersing herself in the local culture and slowly building strong relationships with these women.

The film projection will be followed by an interactive discussion on women’s empowerment in a context of poverty, modernization and rural exodus.

Co-Sponsors: International Council of Women (ICW) & Make Mothers Matter International (MMM Int.)

Downloads:

• Event’s Flyer
• IMMM Int. Introduction to the discussion

12 September 2012 – 13:00-15:00 – Room XXI, Palais des Nations

A collaboration between the Permanent Missions of Finland, Morocco, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Thailand and the NGO CSW Geneva.

Panelists:

• Ms. Laura DUPUY LASSERRE, President of the Human Rights Council (Chair, Moderator)
• Ms. Kyung-wha KANG, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (Opening statement)
• Ms. Magdalena SEPULVEDA, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty
• Mr. Niklas BRUUN, Member of the CEDAW Committee Ms. Ruth Abril Sttoffels, Professor of International Law and International Relations, specialised in gender issues, Cardenal Herrera CEU University
• Ms. Nyaradzai GUMBONZVANDA, President of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women and General Secretary of YWCA

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Conchita Poincini as President of the NGO Committere on the Status of Women Geneva and Convener of the Working Group on Women’s Employment and the Economics of Gender was adamant on organising  a two hour lunch event in preparation of the ILO Labour Conference (ILC), which is to be held June 1-17, 2011.

The ILO Labor Conference will discuss for the second year running the adoption of a Convention and/or Recommendation on “Domestic Workers” a particularly exploited and unprotected group of workers, who are mostly women.

In relation to this conference, the NGO-CSW Working Groups on Employment & the Economics of Gender, Displaced Women and Women’s Right to Health, will hold a panel on

“Domestic Work: Human Rights of Women- Towards an ILO Convention on Domestic Workers”

on Monday, May 30, 2011

in Room S4 at the Palais des Nations.

The Event Flyer can be downloaded here

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Special presentation on 4 November 2009 in the Palais de Nations in Geneva :

“The Global Economic Crisis and the Empowerment of Women”

by MAYRA BUVINIC

Director of the Gender in Poverty Reduction Vice Presidency of the WORLD BANK

In preparation for the Beijing+15 54th Commission on the Status of Women in 2010, the World Bank in Geneva and the CoNGO Geneva NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW) have invited Ms. Mayra Buvinic to present the Bank’s strategy and policy in approaching the financial and economic crisis from a women’s empowerment and gender equal perspective and how gender equality is mainstreamed in the Bank.

Downloads :

Event Flyer

Event Report by Conchita Poncini (IFUW)

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