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United Nations, New York: The US Federation for Middle East Peace President Mrs. Sally Kader is pleased to request the honor of your presence at The International Day of Persons with Disabilities Conference in the Kingdom of Bahrain on January 21 – 22, 2012. For the first time in the Middle East, leaders across contents [...]
5 Dec: International Year of Volunteers +10 (IYV+10) Volunteering empowers people to take an active part in development, to take responsibility for the needs of others, and to make an impact in their own lives. Volunteering often starts at home: but together, volunteers can change the world. In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the [...]
Civil society representatives gathered in Perth today for the start of the three-day Commonwealth People’s Forum to discuss and debate key issues facing Commonwealth People. The Forum was officially opened by the Hon. Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia in a ceremony also addressed by Premier of Western Australia, The Hon. Colin Barnett MLA, [...]
The Commission for the Status of Women has announced that NGO representatives will be extremely limited at official CSW meetings and events at the UN in New York in February. They will need Secondary Passes to gain access to the building, with only one time-limited secondary pass per organization to be shared among its representatives. Already, NGO general Ground Passes have been restricted to 20 passes per organisation for attendance at CSW.
NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC are reminded of the deadlines for submission of written statements for CSW55
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will consider ‘Access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work’ as its priority theme during its fifty-fifth session in 2011.
The recent meeting of the 54th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) advanced the GEAR Campaign goal of continuing civil society pressure on governments to move forward in passing the resolution that creates the entity during this session of the General Assembly (which ends in September).
Please note that applications for NGO Parallel Events during CSW 54 may now be submitted on the website of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York. In the past, the UN Division for the Advancement of Women has handled the application submission process, while the NGO CSW NY has scheduled events and reserved the space where they are held.
The GEAR campaign is pleased that the General Assembly expressed strong and unanimous support in adopting a resolution today that will enable the creation of the new gender equality entity to be headed by a new Under Secretary-General (USG).
