The NGO Committee on the Status of Women Welcomes You to

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The NGO Committee on the Status of Women Welcomes
You to

• The 48th Session of the Commission on the Status
  of Women
• 1-12 March, 2004
• Prepared By Vina Nadjibulla

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Content of this Presentation

• History of Women at the United Nations 1945-2001
• Beijing Platform for Action and Millennium
  Development Goals
• Key UN Agencies working for the Advancement of
  Women
• CSW Mandate, Membership, Bureau, Methods of Work
• Information on the 49th session
• Advocacy Tips
• Dos and Donts at the UN

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United Nations, Women and Human Rights

• 1945 UN Charter
• 1946 CSW Established
• 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights
• 1975 International Womens Year
• 1975 First World Conference on Women,
• Mexico City
• 1976-1985 UN Decade for Women
• 1976
• --INSTRAW established
• --UNIFEM established
• 1979 CEDAW adopted

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United Nations, Women and Human Rights

• 1979 CEDAW adopted
• 1980 2nd World Conference, Copenhagen
• 1985 3rd World Conference, Nairobi
• 1995 4th World Conference, Beijing China
• 2000 23rd Special Session of the GA on Women,
  Equality, Development and Peace (Beijing5)
• 2000 UN Millennium Development Summit
• October 2000 Security Council Resolution 1325
  Women, Peace and Security

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Legal Documents Concerning the Rights of Women

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976)
• Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  (1976)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Form of
  Discrimination Against Women (1981)
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990)

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Beijing Platform for Action 12 critical Area of
Concern

• Women and Poverty
• Education and training of women
• Women and Health
• Violence against women
• Women and Armed Conflict
• Women and the Economy

• Women in Power and Decision-Making
• Institutional mechanisms for the Advancement of
  Women
• Human Rights of Women
• Women and the Media
• Women and the Environment
• The Girl Child

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Beijing 5 Identified New Challenges

• Globalization
• Macroeconomic policies and external debt
• Poverty
• Violence Against Women
• Population Movements
• HIV/Aids

• Women and Armed Conflict
• Role of Men and Boys
• Women and the Media
• Information and Communication Technology
• Women in Power and Decision-making

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UN Millennium Development Goals

• Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
• Reduce by ½ the Proportion of People Living
  on Less than a Dollar a Day
• Reduce by ½ the Proportion of People Who Suffer
  from Hunger
• Achieve Universal Primary Education
• Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
• Eliminate Gender Disparity in Primary and
  Secondary Education preferably by 2005, and at
  all levels by 2015
• Reduce Child Mortality by 2/3

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UN Millennium Development Goals

• Reduce by 2/3 Maternal Mortality Ratio
• Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
• Ensure Environmental Sustainability
• Develop a Global partnership for Development

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Key UN Agencies Working for the Advancement of
Women
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CSW Mandate 1946

• Prepare recommendations and reports to ECOSOC on
  promoting womens rights in political, civil,
  economic and educational fields
• Make recommendations to ECOSOC on urgent problems
  requiring urgent attention in the field of
  womens rights with the object of gender equality
  

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CSW Mandate Expanded in 1987

• Promoting the objectives of equality, development
  and peace
• Monitoring implementation of measures for the
  advancement of women
• Reviewing and appraising progress made at the
  national, sub-regional, regional and global
  levels

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CSW Mandate Expanded in 1996

• Central role in the monitoring of the
  implementation of BPFA
• Multi-year program of work to review critical
  areas of concern of BPFA and maintain and enhance
  public awareness and support for implementation
  of BPFA
• Catalytic role in mainstreaming gender
  perspective in UN activities

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CSW Mandate Expanded in 1996

• Identify issues where UN system-wide coordination
  needs to be improved
• Identify emerging issues, trends and new
  approaches to issues affecting situation of women
  or equality between women and men and make
  substantive recommendations on how to address
  them

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CSW Membership 2004-2007

• Algeria 2007
• Argentina 2005
• Armenia 2007
• Azerbaijan 2005
• Belgium 2007
• Benin 2004
• Bolivia 2007
• Botswana 2006
• Brazil 2004
• Burkina Faso 2006
• Canada 2007
• China 2004

• Chile 2004
• Congo 2007
• Croatia 2004
• Cuba 2006
• Denmark 2004
• Dominican republic 2004
• Gabon 2006
• Germany 2005
• Guatemala 2006
• Guinea 2005
• India 2007
• Indonesia 2006
• Iran 2006

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CSW Membership 2004-2007

• Japan 2005
• Kyrgyzstan 2004
• Malaysia 2005
• Malawi 2004
• Netherlands 2005
• Nicaragua 2006
• Nigeria 2007
• Pakistan 2005
• Peru 2005
• Republic of Korea 2006
• Russian Federation 2007

• South Africa 2006
• Sudan 2006
• Thailand 2007
• Tunisia 2005
• Turkey 2007
• United Arab Emirates 2006
• United Kingdom 2005
• United republic of Tanzania 2005
• USA 2004

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Bureau of the CSW 48th and 49th Sessions
2004-2005

• Ms. Kyung-wha Kang (Republic of Korea),
  ChairpersonMs. Lala Ibrahimova (Azerbaijan, for
  a term of one year), Vice ChairpersonMs. Tebatso
  Future Baleseng (Botswana), Vice ChairpersonMs.
  Beatrice Maille (Canada), Vice ChairpersonMs.
  Carmen-Rosa Arias (Peru), Vice Chairperson

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CSW Multi-Year Program of Work

• 2004
• --The role of men and boys in achieving gender
  equality
• --Womens equal participation in conflict
  prevention, management and conflict resolution,
  and in post-conflict peacebuilding

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CSW Multi-year Program of Work

• 2005
• --review of the implementation of the Beijing
  Platform for Action and the outcome document of
  the 23rd Special Session of the GA
• --Current Challenges and forward looking
  strategies for the advancement and empowerment of
  women and girls

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CSW Multi-Year Program of Work

• 2006
• --Enhanced participation of Women in development
  an enabling environment for achieving gender
  equality and for the advancement of women, taking
  into account, inter alia, the filed of education,
  health and work
• --Equal participation of women and men in
  decision-making at all levels

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CSW High-level Roundtable and Panel

• In 2002 at its 46th session CSW decided to have
  high-level roundtables and expert panels
• Purpose
• opportunity to share national experience
• put emphases on implementation of Beijing
  Platform for Action
• make participation at the CSW of high level
  representatives more attractive

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High-level Roundtable and Panel

• The theme for the high level event at the 48th
  session is Gaps and Challenges in Measuring
  Progress in the Context of Implementation of BPFA
  at the 49th Session of CSW in 2005
• NGOs will be able to participate in the last hour
  of the 3 hour event
• The outcome of high-level events would be CSW
  chairpersons report

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Expected Decisions and Outcomes of the 48th
Session

• Outcome Document or the Agreed Conclusions on
  the two thematic issues
• Thematic and Country Specific Resolutions
• Review of the methods of work of the Commission
  on the Status of Women Program for the 49th
  Session
• Future work of the Working Group on
  Communications on the Status of Women
• Decisions about the 49th Session and B10 events

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CSW Resolutions

• Resolutions proposed for the 48th session
• HIV/AIDS--SADC Countries (Namibia)
• Situation of Palestinian Women--G77 (Qatar)
• INSTRAWMexico
• Gender MainstreamingBangladesh and UK
• Women and Children HostagesAzerbaijan
• Situation of Women in AfghanistanEU
  (Ireland)
• How Can NGOs influence negotiation processes?

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Government Groupings at the UN

• JUZCAN Japan, US, Canada, Australia, New
  Zealand, Norway
• Rio Group Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
  Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El
  Salvador, Guatemala,  Honduras, Ecuador, Mexico,
  Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay,
  Venezuela and Guyana, on behalf of the Countries
  of the Caribbean.

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Government Groupings at the UN

• SADC- Southern African Development Community
• Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi,
  Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa,
  Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
• EU European Union
• Germany, France, UK, Ireland. Belgium,
  Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
  Greece, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Austria,
  Poland, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
  Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Malta,
  Slovenia (Ireland holds Presidency)
• G77Group of 135 developing counties. (Qatar
  holds presidency)

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Tips for Successful Advocacy

• Meet as many government delegates as you need to
  communicate your concerns and suggestions
• Meet with your own countrys representatives
• Identify friendly or supportive governments
• Know the positions of various government
  groupings

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Tips for Successful Advocacy

• Be specific about your recommendations
• Be concise. Your message should be short and
  direct.
• Have suggested language available to distribute
• Do not approach delegates while CSW is in session
  
• Be prepared! Have available background
  information and resources
• The Golden Rule applies to lobbying

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Please DO

• Get information about meetings from UN journal
  www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/48sess.htm
• Come to the morning NGO briefing in conference
  room 2 Tuesday-Friday March 2-12
• Submit information for the NGO newsletter
  produced March 2, 5 and 12
• Attend as many side events and workshops as
  possible
• Participate in the regional and thematic caucuses
  
• Pick official CSW documents in Conf. Room B
• Advertise your events in Conf. Room B

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Please Do Not

• Do not sit in seats assigned to government
  representatives and their assistants
• Do not demonstrate or protest anywhere on United
  Nations Premises. This includes holding up signs
  and wearing pins with protest messages
• Do not make statements on behalf of the NGO
  Committee on the Status of Women or a caucus
  unless every member organization of the caucus
  has agreed to sign on
• Do not use computers in the UN hallway
  designated for government delegates only

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48th Session Important Official Documents

• Annotated Provisional Agenda and Proposed
  Organization of Work
• SG reports on the thematic issues before the
  Commission The role of men and boys in achieving
  gender equality
• Review of the methods of work of the Commission
  on the Status of Women in the context of
  integrated and coordinated implementation of and
  follow-up to the outcomes of the major United
  Nations conferences and summits in the economic
  and social fields

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48th Session Important Official Documents

• Measures taken and progress achieved in the
  follow-up to and implementation of the Fourth
  World Conference on Women and the special session
  of the General Assembly
• Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women
• The situation of women and girls in Afghanistan
• Report of the United Nations Development Fund for
  Women on the elimination of violence against
  women
• Future work of the Working Group on
  Communications on the Status of Women

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Documents Prepared for the 48th session by the
NGO CSW Task Force on Womens Equal Participation

• Compendium on Women s Equal Participation to
  Achieve Peace and Security consisting of two
  documents
• 1. Comprehensive Existing Language Document
• 2. Language Advocacy Tool for Moving Forward
  
• An NGO Advocacy Toolbox
• Report on the NGO CSW Roundtable No Women No
  Peace Sustainable Peace, Human Security and
  Gender Equality Moving the International Security
  Agenda Forward, 23 January 2004, ECOSOC Chamber,
  UN Headquarters, New York
• These documents are available in the NGO resource
  room in conference room B