| 17 - 19 January 2011, New York - Nominations for CoNGO President and Members of the CoNGO Board Are Now Open The 24th General Assembly of CoNGO will take place from 17 to 19 January 2011 at the Auditorium of the International Commission for Social Justice of the Salvation Army in New York. The nominations for CoNGO President and members of the CoNGO Board are now open.[more]
9 June 2010Convened by CoNGO, the NGO Working Group on UN Access was created to address ongoing concerns about increasing restrictions on NGO access – physical and political – to the UN. Your concrete examples of access issues are imperative to the success of the work of the Working Group. You are thus invited to submit such to access@ngocongo.org.[more]
30 September - 1 October 2010 -- Online registration open - Call for Submissions of Action PointsCoNGO is pleased to announce that the Geneva Component of its Civil Society Development Forum (CSDF) - “Women’s Human Rights and Development: Inclusion, Participation, and Equality” – will take place on 30 September and 1 October 2010 at the International Labour Office in Geneva. The Geneva Component of CSDF 2010 is to review the Outcome Document of CSDF 2010–New York Component, in conjunction with the conclusions and recommendations of ECOSOC’s Annual Ministerial Review as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration (to be published by ECOSOC), which focused on "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to gender equality and the empowerment of women". The expected product of the Geneva component of CSDF 2010 is a set of concise action points addressed to governments, the United Nations System and civil society. These action points will be the result of further in-depth debates focusing on the five sub-themes of the New York[more]
4 - 5 May 2010 - Outcome Document and statement by CoNGO President, Mr Liberato C. Bautista, at ECOSOC's High-Level Segment now availableCoNGO held the New York Component of its Civil Society Development Forum (CSDF) 2010 on 4 and 5 May 2010. This year, the theme of CSDF is “Women’s Human Rights and Development: Inclusion, Participation, and Equality”. CoNGO’s Civil Society Development Forum is an NGO preparatory meeting for the Substantive Session of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). This year, the theme of the Annual Ministerial Review (High-Level Segment of that Substantive Session) will focus on “implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to gender equality and the empowerment of women”.[more]
16 June 2010, GenevaCoNGO’s First Vice-President, Mr Cyril Ritchie, will host a general information meeting for Geneva-based member organisations on 16 June 2010 from 16:00 to 18:00 hours at the CoNGO Conference Room, Avenue de la Paix 11, in Geneva.[more]
| 2 June 2010 CoNGO is pleased to announce that its newly created database on the financial and economic crisis is now online. Created by Ms Yejin Kim of the CoNGO/Geneva office, this database is to facilitate the navigation through complex and disparate information available since the beginning of the crisis. The database can be accessed here.[more]
10 April 2010, Eisenstadt, AustriaJointly organised by CoNGO, the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (Vienna) and the Austrian Society of Gender Specific Medicine, an international symposium was held to discuss issues related to gender specific medicine from the NGO perspective. Its two main themes were “Gender in Economy and Education” and “Influence of External Factors on Gender and Health”.[more]
6 - 7 May 2010, New York - Substantive Committee Reports now availableCoNGO's Board meeting took place on 6 and 7 May 2010 in New York, NY.[more]
By Liberato C. BautistaCoNGO's President, Liberato C. Bautista, has addressed CoNGO's members - and its stakeholders at large - in mid-week messages issued since 13 January 2010.These messages are now available for downloading.The most recent message is entitled "Flow, Follow and Fallow".[more]
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