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UN Commission on the Status of Women, 3-14 March 2003, UN Headquarters,
New York.
The UN Commission on the Status of
Women will hold its 47th Session from 3-14 March 2003, giving U.N.
Member States an opportunity to review national progress on the
priorities set out in the Beijing Platform for Action for the advancement
of women.
Every year many civil society organizations gather
beforehand for a day of consultation and networking. This year’s
NGO Consultation Day program will be held at Barnard College in
Manhattan on Sunday, 2 March 2003.
Pre-registration is required. The program will include a keynote
address, an expert panel and breakout discussion/networking sessions
on the following themes being reviewed by the Commission on the
Status of Women:
Themes are :
1. “Information and communication technologies
and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement
and empowerment of
women”
2. “Participation and access of women to
the media, and its impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement
and empowerment of women”
3.“Trafficking in women and girls,"
which is a sub theme of the topic, "Women's human rights and
elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls as
defined in the Beijing Platform for Action and twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly".
See http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/47sess.htm.
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2 March 2003
NGO Consultation "Equality,
Education and Empowerment"
in preparation for the 47th Session
of the UN Commission on the Status of Women,
Barnard College, New York City
Pre-registration is required
Download
the Application form
& Detailed schedule of all events
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Saturday, 1 March
2003, 9:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Women, Communications,
and ICTs
Barnard College
Cost: $15
This event will be conducted in English
High level panel on policy affecting women's
access to ICTs. Discussion of topics such as community access,
regulation, and the World Summit on the Information Society.
* Space is limited *
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Saturday, 1 March
2003, 2 - 5 P.M.
NGO Advocacy Training
Barnard College
Cost: $10
This event will be conducted in English
This skills training session designed by WILDAF
for persons who want to have further training in advocacy
techniques will cover how to provide advocacy during the CSW
meetings and the opportunities to provide advocacy at national
and regional levels It will also address ways to stay connected
between CSW meetings.
* Space is limited *
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Monday, 3 March 2003,
1:15 - 2:45 P.M
NGO Orientation for
new participants
Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium,
United Nations
Cost: no charge
This event will be conducted in English
This session for new NGO representatives attending
the Commission on the Status of Women will share information
on:
- how to find what you need at the United Nations
- making sense of United Nations jargon
- procedures for NGOs outlined by the U.N. Division for the
Advancement of Women
- the Commission process
- how to discuss issues with government representatives
- history of the advancement of women at the U.N.
- U.N. agencies for the advancement of women and their interconnections
Facilitated by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women
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Wednesday, 5 March
2003, 6 - 8 P.M.
NGO Reception
for NGO Representatives, Government Delegates
and U.N. Secretariat staff
Presentation of the Woman of Distinction Award to
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of UNIFEM
Turkish Center, 2nd floor, 821 United Nations Plaza,
46th Street and First Avenue, New York City
Cost: $20
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Thursday, 6 March
2003, 12 - 6 P.M
NGO ARTISAN CRAFT
FAIR
Church Center,
777 United Nations Plaza, 44th Street and First Avenue, New
York City
Cost to Artisans: No charge, but pre-registration is required
below
Anyone bringing crafts or other artisan goods
may participate. Display tables will be provided. Organizations/persons
selling items must handle their own merchandise and sales.
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Saturday, 8 March
2003, 10:30 A.M. - 1 P.M
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S
DAY CELEBRATION: WOMEN AS SOCIETY BUILDERS
American Museum of Natural History, 79th
Street and Central Park West, New York City
Invited guest speaker: Mae Jemison, MD, astronaut
Cost: $10
Co-Sponsored by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women,
NY, Soroptimist International and the American Museum of Natural
History
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