World YWCA Events at CSW 2010
Don’t miss the World YWCA at the fifty-fourth session of the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) from March 1 - 12, 2010.
‘Strengthening Community Capacity for Peace Building - YWCAs implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in Sudan, Sri Lanka, Fiji and Palestine’
Friday, March 5
12pm-1.30pm
10th Floor room at the Church Centre for the United Nations
Partners: Y-Global, FOKUS (Norway), UNIFEM and Femlink Pacific
‘An intergenerational conversation on HIV, Universal Access and Reproductive Health and Violence Against Women’
Friday, March 5
2pm
UN Millennium Plaza Hotel, One United Nations Plaza, 44th Street between First and Second Avenue
Partners: UNFPA, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNAIDS, Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, Ford Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Co-moderated by: Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA Executive Director and Icilda Humes , Belize Ministry of Women's Affairs and World YWCA Board Member
- Ines Alberdi , UNIFEM Executive Director
- Mary Robinson , President Realizing Rights
- Dr Nafis Sadik ,Special Advisor to UN Secretary General and Special Envoy on HIV and AIDS in Asia
- Saida Ali , Young Women's Leadership Institute
- Rachel Arinii Judhistari , Aliansi Remaja Independent and Global Youth Coalition on AIDS
- Jessica Notwell , World YWCA Vice President and Women's Economic Council (Canada)
- Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda , World YWCA General Secretary
Honouring and Celebrating Women's Leadership: Susan Brennan, World YWCA President
Young Women’s Caucus
( Moderated by World YWCA and the World Association Girls Guides and Girl Scouts)
Date: 1,3,5,8,10 March
Time: 5-7pm
Venue: UN Youth Section, Two UN Plaza, DC2-Level 13
Help make young women and girls visible at CSW 54. Wear something green to the young women’s caucus.
For more information, please email: sarah.davies@worldywca.org or bernadette@wagggsworld.org
The Intergenerational Factor: Age Esteem and World YWCA
Facilitators: Bonnie Fatio, Founder and Author AgeEsteem and Arda Aghazarian, World YWCA Board member (YWCA of Palestine )
Thursday, March 4
13:00 - 14:30
Global Action on Aging Office, 6th floor, Room 6J
Church Center (CCUN), 777 UN Plaza (Entrance on 44th
Street)
YWCA Canada: LIVING BEYOND SHELTER : Violence Survivors Advocate for Change
Join YWCA Canada and violence survivor advocates in an interactive discussion to launch ‘Living Beyond Shelter: Videos for Change’ a series of advocacy videos on what’s needed to ensure women live safely beyond violence.
Tuesday, March 9
6:00-7:30pm
2nd Floor Room , Church Center for the United Nations (Corner of 44th St. & 1st Ave)
For more information contact adecter@ywcacanada.ca
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