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Getting Young Women to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2012!

Are you under 30 years of age? Would you like to attend the CSW 2012? UN CSW 56 will meet in New York in February 2012 and consider two main themes:

  • Priority Theme: The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.
  • Review Theme: Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women (agreed conclusions from CSW 52)

A number of organisations are seeking applications from young woman to attend CSW 2012:

YWCA Australia Expressions of interest close 7 October 2011. For more information, please read the notice at YWCA Australia .

UN Women Australia Expressions of interest close 7 October 2011. For more information, please read the notice at UN Women Australia .

 

National Women’s Alliance’s Survey – Taking the issues affecting rural women to the CSW 2012

The National Rural Women’s Coalition (http://www.nrwc.com.au) and the other five national Women’s Alliances are working together over the next four months to identify the key issues for rural women as they relate to CSW. Our aim is for the government to adopt these issues and raise them at CSW 2012.

The online survey has now closed. Stay tuned for more information on what women from rural, regional and remote Australia identified as the key issues for them as they relate to the  CSW 2012 theme.

 

The selection process for non-government delegates for CSW 56 has now closed on Sunday August 21st.  Information is available from the FaHCSIA website at http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/women/progserv/intengage/un/Pages/default.aspx

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An NGO's guide to consultative status at CSW

Submitted by Hannah Gissane on Thu, 05/01/2012 - 13:07

This info is from the Office for Women:

CSW – an NGO’s Guide to Consultative Status

The NGO Branch of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs has released a new brochure on Working with ECOSOC – an NGO’s Guide to Consultative Status.  It is available at http://csonet.org/content/documents/Brochure.pdf (full PDF) and http://csonet.org/content/documents/BrochureLite.pdf (low resolution version).  The next deadline for new applications is 31 May 2012.

Delegates to UN CSW56 have been announced

Submitted by Hannah Gissane on Tue, 04/10/2011 - 10:20

Minister Ellis put out a media release on 30 September announcing the delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 56th Session. Read it on the ERA website here, or the original at the Minister's website here. Congratulations to Darriea Turley, Rosemary Norman-Hill, and Kaylene Rawlings Hunter.