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5-25 June

Visitor’s Lobby

Art Exhibition: Progress of the World’s Women

Art exhibit will display pieces by women artists throughout the world, depicting women’s progress toward gender equality.

Opening reception on 5 June.

(212) 906-5538

5 June

Secretariat Bldg

Microcredit: More than Access to Money

This accountability panel will highlight the progress and the lessons learned of reaching 100 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families with credit and other financial services. This goal was initially announced by four of these panelist at the Beijing World Conference on announced by four of these panelists at the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995 and followed up by the Microcredit Summit Campaign. Co-sponsored by the ILO and the Microcredit Summit Campaign.

Speakers will include: Hillary Rodham Clinton; Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM; Mr. Mohammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (Bangladesh); Ms. Ela Bhatt, Self-Employed Women’s Association (India); Sam Daley-Harris, Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign (USA); Mark Malloch Brown, UNDP Administrator.

(212) 906-5463

5 June

Secretariat Bldg.

Progress of the World’s Women

This high-level panel will launch UNIFEM’s new biennial report, and examine women’s progress and sets back on the road to empowerment. UNFPA invited to co-sponsor.

Invited speakers include: Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe, Vice President of Uganda (invited); Hon. E.L. Herfkens, Minister for Development Cooperation, the Netherlands; Baroness Valerie Amos, UK House of Lords, Government Spokesperson on Women’s & International Development Issues; Hon. Benedita da Silva, Vice-Governor, State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Ms. Gita Sen, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN/India); Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM; Diane Elson, Coordinator, Progress of the World’s Women,UNIFEM.

(212) 906-5463

5 June

Location TBA

Seminar and video presentation on Women and Secure Tenure

This seminar will discuss issues of women, land rights and secure tenure. Co-sponsored with UNCHS (Habitat), FAO, UNDP and the Huairou Commission

TBA

Diana.LeeSmith@unchs.org

6 June

Secretariat Bldg.

Demonstration and discussion of Good Practices and Gender Training collections.

Presentation and demonstration of interagency databases on good practices in gender mainstreaming and other gender resources. Co-sponsored with IACWGE, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, and UNCHS (Habitat).

TBA

(212) 906-5538

6 June

Conf. Rm. 3, Secretariat Bldg.

The Role of Men and Boys in Ending Gender-Based Violence

This panel is sponsored by the Bureau of the PrepCom, in collaboration with the OSAGI, DAW, UNICEF, UNDP, UNIFEM and the UN Men’s Group for Gender Equality.

The panel is to be chaired by Richard Jolly, Special Adviser, UNDP HDR. Invited speakers include: Mr. Phillipe Thigo, Youth Caucus and member of Kenya Delegation for B+5; Mr. Mufti Ziauddin, human rights lawyer, (Pakistan); Dr. Michael Kaufman, International Director, White Ribbon Campaign (Canada); Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM; Mr. Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS.

(212) 963-8034

6 June

Secretariat Bldg.

UNV Gen0der Specialists in the Field

Co-sponsored with UNDP and UNV.

The launching is to be chaired by Aster Zaoude, Manager, Gender in Development Programme, UNDP. Panelists will include: Jyotsna Roy, Gender Specialist/UNV (Cambodia); Dona Abdurazaova, Gender Specialist/ UNV (Kyrgyzstan); Suzette Mitchell, Programme Consultant/UNV (Vietnam); Zazie Schater, Gender Specialist/UNV (Morocco).

(212) 906-5463

6 June

(21^st Floor)

Technical Workshop on Micro-finance and Women’s Empowerment

Co-sponsored with the ILO and the MCSC.

TBA

(212) 906-5463

6 June

DHL Auditorium, Secretariat Bldg.

Overcoming Women’s Poverty: Linking Beijing +5 and WSSD +5

This panel will look at the links between B+5 and WSSD +5, emphasizing issues of gender, economic justice and globalization. Co-sponsored with UNDP, ILO and WICEJ (Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice).

Invited Speakers include: Pam Rajput, South Asia Watch (India); Oksana Kisselyova, MAMA86 (Ukraine); La Doris Payne, WomenSpirit/National Congress of Neighborhood Women (USA); Njoki Njeru, 50 Years is Enough/Jubilee 2000 (Kenya)

(212) 906-5463

6 June

Evening

Reception and Book Launch

Co-sponsored with the International Women’s Tribune Centre

(212) 906-6045

7 June

Location TBA

Panel discussion on the impact of microcredit on the poorest families, especially women in those families.

This panel will discuss the impact of microcredit on the poorest families, with particular attention to the women of those families. Co-sponsored with ILO and MCSC.

TBA

(212) 906-6536

7 June

DHL Auditorium, Secretariat Bldg.

Engendering Peacemaking Processes: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

This panel will review progress made in the post-Beijing period to enhance women’s leadership in peacemaking, and will present a forward-looking strategy to launch a Security Council session on women and armed conflict. Co-sponsored with UNDP and International Alert.

Ambassador Karim Chowdury, Security Council (Bangladesh); Hon. Mu Sochua, Ministefr for Women’s and Veteran’s Affairs (Cambodia); Amy Smythe, former Minister of Women’s and Children’s Affairs, (Sierra Leone); Angela King, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women; Luz Mendez, National Union of Women of Guatemala.

(212) 906-5463

8 June

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.

Duska Andric-Ruzicic, Infoteka/Bosnia-Herzegovna and Nadera Kevorkian, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid Counseling (WCLAC)/Jerusalem.

(212) 906-5463

8 June

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.

Invited speakers include: Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights (invited); Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM; Asma Jahangir, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (invited); Gay MacDougall, Member of Committee for Racial Discrimination; Navinathan Pillay, Int’l Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (invited); Chair: Zelmira Regazzoli, member of CEDAW Committee; among others.

(212) 906-5463

8 June

(44^th St. &1^stAve.)

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.

Madhu Bala Nath, UNIFEM/ UNAIDs; Sarah Longwe, FEMNET; others to announced.

(212) 906-6045

8 June

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.

Speakers will include: Dr. Ruth Cardoso (invited), First Lady of Brazil; Mrs. Rawlings, First Lady of Ghana; Christine Hemrick, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems; Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, UNDP; Angela King, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women; Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM; Lalla ben Yarka, UN Economic Commission for Africa; others to be announced.

(212)906-6442

8 June

Conf. Rm. 3, Secretariat Bldg.

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.

Mary Diaz, Director of Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Sydia Nduna, who ran Burundi sexual and gender-based program on reproductive health; Amanda Romeo, Gender and internal displacement in Colombia; and a representative from Bosnia Women’s Initiatives.

(212) 906-6045