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Conference Of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council Conference Of NGOs
COMMITTEES OF SUBSTANCE
Status of Women, Vienna

 

 

Description:

The Vienna NGO Committee on the Status of Women accredited at the United Nations Office in Vienna was founded in 1982 and works on a voluntary basis on the national and international level. The committee is comprised of 40 international organizations with a focus on women's issues.

Goals:

  1. Following the work of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and submission of statements to its sessions, dissemination of related documents, as well as following meetings of the Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women;
  2. Following the work of Vienna based UN Commissions and Agencies and submission of statements to repective sessions, dissemination of related documents;
  3. Dissemination of information on the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Platform for Action, etc.

Committee Activities on the International Level:
Organised the following conferences - with a special outreach effort to and participation of women from Central and Eastern Europe: 1996: International Seminar on "Affirming Women's Potential"; 1998: International Seminar on "Women's Rights- Human Rights, Our Vision of the Future"; 2000, jointly with CONGO: International Conference on "The Optional Protocol to CEDAW"; 2002, jointly with CONGO: International Conference on "Media, ICTs and Women". Co-organised with CONGO and other Vienna-based NGO Committees in 2001: Intrnational Seminar on "Racism and Xenophobia".

 

 

Officers:

Chairperson: Mrs. Susi Shaked, Hadassah Int.
Hameaustrasse 20, Stiege 2, A 1190 Wien
hadassah-austria@mcnon.com
Tel.: +43 1 440 55 49; +43 650 821 4896; Fax.: +43 1 440 55 49-5

 

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