A delegation of 14 FAWCO women attended CSW 60 at UN Headquarters in New York, March 14 to 24, 2016. Your voice at the UN, your concerns raised with the UN NGO community. Let us know what issues are important to you. 

By Vali Mitsakis

A briefing organized by Department of Public Information of the United Nations with a panel speaking about the seventy years of the United Nations.

While I was walking towards the conference room where the celebration was being held, I couldn’t help myself from thinking ‘What’s next?” I knew that I was going to hear a panel speak...

By Vali Mitsakis

A briefing organized by Department of Public Information of the United Nations

This briefing focused on the use of technology in order to enhance teaching methods and student experiences in primary and secondary school classrooms. It is almost impossible to contemplate the changes that have occurred since I attended primary and secondary schools ten years or so...

With the bang of a gavel Saturday night, representatives of 195 nations reached a landmark accord that will, for the first time, commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help avert the most drastic effects of climate change. The deal represents a historic breakthrough on an issue that has foiled decades of international efforts to address...

From November 30 - December 11 2015, world leaders will meet in Paris for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Negotiations on climate change began at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, which launched the UNFCCC – a framework aimed at stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. The UNFCCC's...

You can participate in one of the largest gathering of women's rights advocates in the world! The 60th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from March 14 – 24, 2016. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world will attend. In...