Karama’s delegation of 32 women from around the Arab world is headed to the UN in New York to participate in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. During the session, Karama’s team will join women’s activists from around the world to present a detailed review of progress towards fulfilling the gender equality goals set fifteen years ago in the Beijing Platform for Action and ten years ago in the Millennium Development Goals.
More information on Karama’s web site.
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Advocacy in the Arab region - 30 years of the CEDAW Treaty to end discrimination against women
- Friday Dec 11,2009 01:18 PM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The League of Arab States, Karama, and UNIFEM to Commemorate 30 Years of the CEDAW Treaty to End Discrimination Against Women
Draft resolution on the organization of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly
- Tuesday Dec 8,2009 04:40 PM
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Member States have reached a preliminary agreement on the modalities for the MDG Review Conference in September 2010. The resolution decides that the meeting will be held from 20 to 22 September 2010 in New York. It also asks that Hearings with civil society be organized no later than June 2010. Formal approval of the resolution should be expected in the coming couple of weeks. (more…)
Your Excellency, Mr President of the South South Co-operation Conference, heads of delegations and representatives of member states, colleagues and representatives of the business sector and of parliaments, dear Civil society colleagues, ladies and gentlemen: (more…)
October 31, 2009 - At the NGO CSW Roundtable meeting on the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) review of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action women gathered to develop recommendations that reflected the needs and experiences of women in the region. The two day NGO meeting took place in Geneva from October 30-31, 2009 and focused on “the challenges of gender equality in the context of the economic and financial crisis.” (more…)
General Assembly adopts resolution on System-wide Coherence (SWC)
- Tuesday Sep 15,2009 05:33 PM
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The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution that takes the next step in the process of creating the new women’s rights entity at the U.N. In the text below are the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) talking points on the passage of the resolution. (more…)
=> AFRICA REGIONAL TASK FORCE FOR THE BEIJING + 15 REVIEW PROCESS
=> KENYAN NGOS DEVELOP AN ACTION STRATEGY TO REVIEW BEIJING PLATFORM FOR ACTION
=> ORGANIZING FOR BEIJING + 15 IN WEST AFRICA=> ORGANIZING FOR BEIJING + 15 IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE ISLANDS
=> REGIONAL SCORECARD PROPOSED TO MONITOR GOVERNMENT PROGRESS IN AFRICA
=> UGANDA BPFA REVIEW NON-GOVERNMENT WORKING GROUP
=> UN ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA(UNECA) EXPERT GROUP AND MINISTERIAL MEETING ON OCTOBER 26-30, 2009; BANJUL, THE GAMBIA (more…)
Reflections and foresights on the U.N. Conference on the Financial Crisis
- Tuesday Jul 7,2009 03:26 PM
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This South Centre Bulletin is a special edition focusing on the outcome of the UN Conference on the Financial Crisis held on 24-26 June. The first articles provide an analysis of the Conference’s outcome document. Other articles are on the Centre’s interpretation of the key issues in the conference, and report on the Centre’s press conference at the UN headquarters and on the roundtable in which the Centre and UNCTAD highlighted the need to address the new debt crisis and to provide liquidity to developing countries. See the Bulletin, pdf format: southcentre_un2009
Indian trade unions and NGOs call for new global economic order
- Monday Jun 29,2009 12:59 PM
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By Ashok B. Sharma - Tue 23 of June, 2009, Source: MyNews.in - On the eve of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development slated to be held in New York from June 24, country’s trade unions and civil society organizations have demanded that India take a firm stand by urging for replacing the ailing global financial architecture by a new one embodying principles of economic justice and equitable Development.
Key issues unresolved on eve of financial crisis conference
- Tuesday Jun 23,2009 02:16 PM
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New York, 22 Jun (Martin Khor*) – On the eve of the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis, many issues remain unresolved, even after marathon sessions that go on to near midnight. After an all-day session last Friday, the second reading of the draft outcome document concluded at four in the morning on Saturday. (more…)
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