Thursday 8th June 2000
WomenAction 2000 | Live @ the UNGASS!
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Updates to this calendar will also be published in the daily newspaper
Skip to Calendars for Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Friday and daily events happening throughout the week
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| 9.00 – 4.00 | Ford Foundation Auditorium, 320 E43rd st | WEDO Launch of the global Campaign for “50-50 by 2005: Get the Balance Right!!” | The campaign will be lauched in conjunction with the UN General Assembly Session that will review the first five years of the BPA | dahlia@wedo.org | ||||
| 8:00-9:00 | DHL Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC | “Child Advocacy Caucus” |
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8:30 – 10 a.m. |
Austrian Mission to the UN (by invitation only) |
Voices of Change: Ending Violence Against Women |
Breakfast with donors to showcase good practices in ending violence against women from grantees of UNIFEM’s Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women. |
Susana Fried (212) 906-6045 Micol Zarb (212) 906-5463 |
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| 9:00-10:00 am | Conf Rm 4, UN Building | “NGO Briefing” – NGO Coordinating Committee |
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| 10:00-11:00 am | DHL Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC | “Health Caucus” |
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| 10:00–11:30 am | Boss Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “The Radio and Internet Link” – AMARC |
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| 10:00-1:00 pm | 10th Fl Conf Rm, UNCC | “Women’s Lives in Indonesia” - Indonesian Women’s Forum |
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| 10:00–11:00 am | Hardin Rm, 11th Fl, UNCC | “Caucus of the European Union” – European Women’s Lobby |
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| 10:00-1:00 pm | Hardin Rm, 11th Fl, UNCC | “Gender and Media Workshop” – Inter Press Services |
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| 10:30-12:00 pm | Ballroom, UN Plaza Hotel [44th & 1st Ave] | “Women and Islam Panel” – Association of Iranian Women-USA |
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| 11:00-12:30 pm | DHL Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC | “Uprooted Women Caucus” |
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| 11:00–12:00 pm | Grumman Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “Hong-Kong Post-Handover to China” – Equal Opportunity Commission |
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| 11:30–1:15 pm | Boss Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “Listening to Youth for a Change” – Center for Ethical Leadership |
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| 12.00-1.00 | Francophony Headquaters, Suite 605, 801 2nd Avenue | The Tunisian experience of eradicating poverty among women: Initiative 2626 and the International Solidarity Fund. | ||||||
| 12:00–1:00 pm | Grumman Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “Women in Decision-making Workshop” – Alliance for Arab Women |
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| 12:30-2:00 pm | DHL Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC | “Women and Armed Conflict Caucus” |
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| 1:00–3:00 pm | Hardin Rm, 11th Fl, UNCC | “Women in Law and Politics” – International Federation of Women in Legal Careers (FIDA) |
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1:15 – 2:45 p.m. |
DHL Auditorium, Secretariat Bldg |
The Future of Women’s Human Rights |
This panel will focus on the future challenges for the realization of women’s human rights, with presentations by independent human rights experts in various areas of rights. They will outline a forward-looking agenda on the next frontier for the advancement, protection and promotion of women’s human rights. Co-sponsored with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN/DAW. |
Susana Fried (212) 906-6045 Micol Zarb (212) 906-5463 |
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1:15-2:45 p.m. |
Church Center of the UN (44th St. &1stAve.) |
Widows and Widowhood: Myths, Rituals and Realities |
The panel will look at widows and widowhood, emphasizing myths and realities within and across regions, and including issues of HIV/AIDS. |
Susana Fried (212) 906-6045 |
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| 1:15-2:45 pm | Conf Rm 4, UN Building | “TBA”- Society for International Development and WID Network |
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| 1:15-2:45 pm | Labouisse Hall, UNICEF House | “Foreign Policy & Development and the World Bank” – Youth Caucus |
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Shireen Lee - shireen_lee@yahoo.com (202) 462-7512 | ||||
| 1:15-2:45 pm | 10th Fl Conf Rm, UNCC | “Widowhood Panel” - UNIFEM |
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| 1:00-2:30 pm | Grumman Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “Mental Health Caucus” |
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| 1.15-3.00 pm | UNDP DC-1 Building, 1 United Nations Plaza, 21st Floor, Hank Shannon Conference Room | Priorities and Challenges for the empowerment of Women and Gender Equality beyond B+5, Central and Latin America and the Carribean (Spanish) |
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| 1.30-2.30 | http://www.canalweb.net/vers/cyberfemmes.asp | ENVIRONMENT and FOOD SECURITY with participants from the Philippines, India, and Canada | "Cyberfemmes" Live interactive TV broadcast.(A chatroom will be open at 3:30pm GMT, 10:30pm in France.) So you can participate in the online debate. You can also send emails with your comments, to the team in New York, who will post them the next day. | Joelle - Les Pénélopes email : joe_palm@hotmail.com | ||||
| 1.30-3.00 | 7th Floor, UNCC, Prebyterian Conference Room | Media Caucus Meeting |
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| 2:00-2:30 pm | DHL Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC | “US Delegation Briefing to its NGOs” |
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| 2:30-3:00 pm | DHL Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC | “Canadian Delegation Briefing for its NGOs” |
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| 2:30-4:30 pm | Grumman Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “Media Women and Our Machine” - AMARC |
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| 3.00-4.45 pm | UN Conference Room 3, Secretariat Building | New ICT's: Building Partnerships for Education and Training of Women | Presentation and video. |
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| 3.00-5.00 | US Customs House | Gender and Poverty Eradication Strategies | ||||||
| 3.00-5.00 | Labouisse Room, UNICEF House 44th St. | Young Women's Political Forum |
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Irene Santiago - irenesantiago@yahoo.com | ||||
| 3.00-5.00pm | Customs House, One Bowling Green, NYC | Poverty Reduction Strategies and Gender | Second Session |
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| 3:00-4:30 pm | Hardin Rm, 11th Fl, UNCC | “TBA” – Part-timers of Japan |
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| 3:00-4:00 pm | DHL Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC | “Violence Against Women Caucus” |
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| 3:00-4:00 pm | Ballroom, UN Plaza Hotel [44th & 1st Ave] | “TBA”- Network of Asia Pacific Youth |
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3.00 – 4:45 p.m. . |
Conf. Rm. 3, Secretariat Bldg |
Gender and ICTs: Building new partnerships |
This panel will explore new and emerging partnerships to increase women’s access to information and communications technologies. Co-sponsored with Cisco Systems and UNDP. |
Rosemary Kalapurakal (212)906-6442 |
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| 3.30-5.00 | FSUN, 809 UN Plaza | Women's Studies and Expression - Report and Performance | ||||||
| 3:00-5:00 pm | Boss Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “ Women in Armed Conflict- World Court of Women Against War, For Peace in South Africa, Dec. 6-10, 2000” – AWHRC in India & Manila, El Taller (Tunisia) |
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| 3.00-4.00 p.m | Ballroom, UN Plaza Hotel, 44th St and 1st Avenue | Me and My Own Body: Young women of Asia Pacific talk about control of their own bodies | ||||||
| 3:00–5:00 pm | 10th Fl Conf Rm, UNCC | “Gender and Conflict (Resolution)” – Women’s International Studies Europe (WISE) |
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| 3:00-4:00 pm | Conf Rm 4, UN Building | “ECE Regional Caucus” [FLOOR] “ ECLAC Regional Caucus” [BALCONY] |
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| 4:00-5:00 pm | Conf Rm 4, UN Building | “ESCAP Regional Caucus” [FLOOR] “ECA Regional Caucus” [BALCONY] |
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| 5:00-6:00 pm | Conf Rm 4, UN Building | “Linkage Caucus” |
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| 4:00-5:00 pm | DHL Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC | “Indigenous Women Caucus” |
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| 4:00-5:00 pm | Ballroom, UN Plaza Hotel [44th & 1st Ave] | “TBA” – Il Cenacolo |
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| 5.00-8.00pm | UNDP, DC-1 Building, 1 United Nations Plaza, 21st Floor, Hank Shannon Conference Room | Increasing Women's Access to IT |
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| 5:00-6:00 pm | Grumman Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “IPPF African Branch Meeting”- IPPF/Africa |
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| 6:00-7:00 pm | Grumman Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “IPPF Branches Meeting”- IPPF/UK |
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| 6.00-7.30 pm | UNDP , DC-1 Building Building, 1 United Nations Plaza, 3rd Floor Lounge | Looking Around, Looking Ahead |
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| 6:00–8:00 pm | Boss Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC | “Redress for ‘Comfort Women’ Victims” – NY Coalition on Comfort Women Issues, Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice |
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6 – 8 p.m. |
Conf. Rm. 3, Secretariat Bldg. |
Gender and Forced Migration: Persisting Challenges and New Realities |
The panel will seek to address three issue areas of concern to women who are forced into exile. 1) Reproductive health and gender-based violence in the land of displacement. 2) The impact and emerging problems of internal displacement on women and girls. 3) Building local capacities of refugee women and women’s organizations and their contribution to humanitarian assistance protection. |
Susana Fried (212) 906-6045 |
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| 8:00 pm | Times Square, Brewery Restaurant, 160 W 42nd St (at Broadway) | “Networking Social” – Youth Caucus |
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