Renate Bloem has worked in the NGO field as UN Representative for the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women and with CONGO as the President of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in Geneva, Coordinating Committee Member of the NGO Forum on Health, member of the International NGO Coordinating Committee for Beijing+5 and Convener of the Working Group on Girls.

As a Human Rights advocate focusing in particular on the human rights of women and children, she was involved in the drafting of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and has led her organization's delegations to the World Conferences on Human Rights (Vienna 1993), the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995) and the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Stockholm 1996).

Ms. Bloem has organized seminars and consultations and set up caucus activities on lobby and advocacy. She frequently addresses the issue of NGO/UN work at national and international speaking engagements. She was elected President of CONGO at the General Assembly in November 2000.

Links

World Assembly on Ageing - WAA2: 8-12 April, Madrid, Spain.

Capacity building for the Informal NGO Regional Network in Africa: 8-11 January, Tunis, Tunisia.

"Global Policy without Democracy?": November 2001, Berlin, Germany

Address to International Symposium on Volunteering, November 2001

Address to World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance - 6 September 2001, Durban, South Africa

Presentation for Panel: Voice of African Women - 6 September 2001, Durban, South Africa

Digital Inclusion: Impact and Challenges of the Networked Economy For Developing Countries - Berlin, January, 2001