IAW ARTICLES

IAW at UNCTAD
Economy

How to improve women’s economic opportunities

Oral intervention by Dr. Sibylle von Heydebrand at the UN Geneva Dr Sibylle von Heydebrand at the Global Leaders Forum on economic opportunities for women ...
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CEDAW

IAW submitted an intervention to the WGDAWG

Positive evaluation and likely listing as best practice (localisation of CEDAW) The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (WGDAWG) came to UN ...
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News

UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize 2024

UNESCO invites nominations for the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize 2024 Unesco, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons UNESCO invites individuals, civil society actors, and ...
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News

IAW Statement on the Gaza Conflict

From 2000 to now IAW statement 2000 at the Board Meeting in Tel Aviv, when asked by the host organization, WIZO, to make a political ...
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Displaced Woman in DR Congo
Donation

The situation in DR Congo is getting worse – please donate!

Urgent Call for Support If you type “Lake Kivu” into the internet search engine, you will see picturesque images. But the pictures belie the disastrous ...
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The History of NGO CSW NY
CSW

The History of NGO CSW NY

Illustrated Review of the Work of the NGO CSW NY since its founding in 1972 Commons Photo Source: NGO CSW NY Website International Alliance of ...
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OPINIONS

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Leap Year Tradition

Is there a tradition 100 years later? Anjana Basu gives us feminist insights on this quadrennial event. February 29 falls once every four years, offering

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    Geneva NGO Forum – Beijing + 20 Review

    Geneva

    Beijing-PosterThe NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva, and its partner organizations, will host an NGO Forum as part of the UNECE ( United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)  Regional Review of Beijing+20 (Geneva, 6-7 Nov.  2014).This NGO Forum will examine the 12 critical areas of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, to review progress made, remaining gaps and existing challenges. The Forum will also identify emerging women’s issues brought on by a changing world and seek government accountability for their commitments made to women’s rights, equality and empowerment initiatives. The outcome of the NGO Forum will feed into the ECE Regional Review Process and contribute to the Global Beijing+20 Report, as well as, the post-MDG agenda. 

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    Beijing+20 NGO Forum savethedate 2014-01-20

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