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Date/Time
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Venue
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Title
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Details
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Contact
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8:00-9:00
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DHL
Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC
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“Child
Advocacy Caucus”
|
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9:00-10:00
am
|
Conf
Rm 4, UN Building
|
“NGO
Briefing” – NGO Coordinating Committee
|
|
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10:00-11:30
am
|
Conf
Rm 4, UN Building
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“TBA” – Asian Women’s Human Rights
Council
|
|
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10:00-12:00
pm
|
Conf
Rm 4, UN Building
|
“Live
Feed of GASS”
|
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10:00-11:00
am
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DHL
Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC
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“Health
Caucus”
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10:00
am–12:00 pm
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10th
Fl Conf Rm, UNCC
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“Strategies
for Women in Power and Decision-making” – Socialist International Women
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10:00-11:30
am
|
Rm
4, NGO Center, Customs House, 1 Bowling Green
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“Feminism
& The Third Wave: Young Women’s Perspectives on Feminism & Beijing
+5”- Youth Caucus
|
To
address the question - Where are the Young Feminists? - often posed by older
feminists, young women from the UN regions will proclaim at this panel the
existence of their own brand of feminism.
|
Shireen
Lee - shireen_lee@yahoo.com
(202)
462-7512
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11:00-12:30
pm
|
DHL
Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC
|
“Uprooted
Women Caucus”
|
|
|
11:30—1:30
pm
|
Dag
Hammersjköld Plaza
47th
Street (between 1st and 2nd)
|
“Women
2000: Beijing +5 Opening Ceremony” – US NGO Host Committee
|
|
|
12:00–3:00
pm
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10th
Fl Conf Rm, UNCC
|
“Prostitution
is Violence to Women” – Network North Against Prostitution and Violence
|
|
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12:30-2:00
pm
|
DHL
Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC
|
“Women
and Armed Conflict Caucus”
|
|
|
1:00-4:00
pm
|
Boss
Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC
|
“Media
Women- New Technology Panel”- Int’l Association of Women in Radio and TV
|
|
|
1:15-2:45
pm
|
Conf
Rm 4, UN Building
|
“TBA”- International
Rescue Committee, International Alert, KICWA Women’s Group
|
|
|
1.15-3.00
|
Conf. Rm. 3
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.
|
Susana Fried
(212) 906-6045
Micol Zarb
(212) 906-5463
|
1.30-2.30
|
http://www.canalweb.net/vers/cyberfemmes.asp
|
ARMED CONFLICT
and VIOLENCE with Africa (Ouganda) and East Europe participants
Special
participation of a woman from Kosovo
|
"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
|
2:30-3:00
pm
|
DHL
Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC
|
“Canadian
Delegation Briefing for its NGOs”
|
|
|
3:00-4:00
pm
|
DHL
Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC
|
“Violence
Against Women Caucus”
|
|
|
3:00–4:30
pm
|
Hardin
Rm, 11th Fl, UNCC
|
“World
Conference on Women 2005” – Network Women in Development, Europe (WIDE)
|
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|
3:00-4:00
pm
|
Conf
Rm 4, UN Building
|
“ECE
Regional Caucus” [FLOOR]
“
ECLAC Regional Caucus” [BALCONY]
|
|
|
3:15- 4:45 pm
|
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
|
Diana Lee Smith
Diana.LeeSmith@unchs.org
|
3:30 - 5 p.m.
|
Conf. Rm. 3
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
|
Susana Fried
(212) 906-6045
Micol Zarb
(212) 906-5463
|
4:00-5:00
pm
|
Conf
Rm 4, UN Building
|
“ESCAP
Regional Caucus” [FLOOR]
“ECA
Regional Caucus” [BALCONY]
|
|
|
5:00-6:00
pm
|
Conf
Rm 4, UN Building
|
“Linkage
Caucus”
|
|
|
3:00–5:00
pm
|
10th
Fl Conf Rm, UNCC
|
“Reproductive
Rights: Moving Forward” - Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
|
|
|
4:00-5:00
pm
|
DHL
Rm, 12th Fl, UNCC
|
“Indigenous
Women Caucus”
|
|
|
4:00–5:00
pm
|
Boss
Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC
|
“Caucus
of the European Union” – European Women’s Lobby
|
|
|
5:00-6:00
pm
|
Grumman
Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC
|
“IPPF
African Branch Meeting”- IPPF/Africa
|
|
|
6:00-7:00
pm
|
Grumman
Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC
|
“IPPF
Branches Meeting”- IPPF/UK
|
|
|
6:00–7:00
pm
|
Dag
Hammarskjold Library Auditorium
|
The
Phantom Statistic - Women Feed the World
|
A
Gender and Food Security video presentation
|
Maria
(212)
963 8724
|
6:00–7:00
pm
|
10th
Fl Conf Rm, UNCC
|
“Women
and Poverty” – Alliance of Arab Women
|
|
|
6:00–7:30
pm
|
Boss
Rm, 8th Fl, UNCC
|
“Microcredit:
Impact on Women” – The Microcredit Summit Campaign
|
|
|
6:30-8:00
pm
|
Conf
Rm 4, UN Building
|
“Women
in Armed Conflict in the Asia Pacific” – Women and Media Network for Asia
Pacific
|
Looking
at East Timor, Burma, Bougainvile, Afghanistan, North-East India
|
|
7.00-8.00
|
Dag
Hammarskjold Library Auditorium
|
Engendering
Land Tenure: Women Taking Hold (A Global Speak Out)
|
|
Maria
(212)
963 8724
|
8:00
pm
|
386
W Broadway (Spring St)
|
“Networking
Social” – Youth Caucus
|
|
|
Ongoing Events (taking place throughout the week)
Date/Time
|
Venue
|
Title
|
Details
|
Contact
|
June 5: 3-8
June 6: 9-9
June 7: 9-9
June 8: 9-5.30
|
The Graduate School and
University Center of CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave (at 34th).
|
Beijing Plus 5 Global
Feminist Symposia – Feminisms and Globalization: Women 2000
|
An analysis of the impact of
globalization on women and girls
|
Tejal Jesrani – tjesrani@ncrw.org
(212) 785-7335
Maureen Fadem – csws@gc.cuny.edu
(212) 817-2020
|
UN Office opening hours
|
UN 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 equity
|
Jessica Humphreys
(212) 906-5538
|
1.30-2.30
|
http://www.canalweb.net/vers/cyberfemmes.asp
|
Cyberfemmes in English and French) Live
interactive TV broadcast.(A chatroom will be open at 3:30pm GMT, 10:30pm in
France.)
|
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
|
9.30-9.55 a.m and 10.00-10.25
a.m
|
http://www.fire.or.cr
|
Voices Without Brackets
|
The FIRE-PLACE will do live
webcasting through the fire web page at www.fire.or.cr
|
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