| 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 August 2010, MelbourneIn the context of the 63rd United Nations DPI/NGO Conference (30 August – 1 September 2010, Melbourne), CoNGO is organising a side-event on 30 August 2010 from 19:30 to 20:15 hours in Room 105 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center.[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, 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[more]
Re-scheduled: 2 October 2010, GenevaCoNGO's President, Mr Liberato C. Bautista, announced that the Officers of CoNGO decided to re-schedule the Board meeting originally intended to take place on 23 and 24 October in Dakar, Senegal. The last CoNGO Board meeting for 2010 will therefore now be held on 2 October 2010 in Geneva. The meeting is open to members of CoNGO who are invited to attend as observers.[more]
| Originally scheduled on 25 October 2010 The public launch of the newly established CoNGO Regional Committee in Africa originally scheduled on 25 October 2010 in Dakar, Senegal, has been postponed. The Preparatory Committee, which is also serving as the Provisional Leadership Team of the Regional Committee in Africa, and CoNGO are committed to re-scheduling the event as soon as possible. The time and location of the public launch of CoNGO’s Regional Committee in Africa will be announced via the CoNGO E-Update and at www.ngocongo.org. Meanwhile, CoNGO is inviting member NGOs to join the Regional Committee in Africa to ensure – already from its public launch – the engagement of a broad palette of civil society representatives in this important and timely initiative to facilitate and strengthen the collaboration of CoNGO members across the entire region of the African continent. To join, please send an email to RCAregistration@ngocongo.org.[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]
Outcome Documents now available for downloadingThe CoNGO Committee on the Status of Women (Geneva) has now published the outcome documents from its NGO Forum held on 30 and 31 October 2009 in Geneva in preparation for the UN ECE Preparatory Meeting on the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA).[more]
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