Wednesday March 16

FAWCO UN Liaison Laurie Richardson co moderated today's NGO Briefing at CSW 60, as a member of the NGO CSW in Vienna Executive Committee. Her co moderator was from the NGO CSW in Geneva. Click here to see the video in full size.

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...