Commission on the Status of Women Report
The full United Nations report on the Commission on the Status of Women fifty-seventh session (4-15 March 2013) can be read here.From FAWCO's Global Team on Ending Violence Against Women and Children
From FAWCO's Global Team on Ending Violence Against Women and Children
The findings of an important new study on the global prevalence of violence against women and its impacts were published in June 2013. You can read about the study here.
From FAWCO's Global Team on Ending Violence Against Women and Children
Meetings Attended by FAWCO UN Representatives
2009-2012
April 18, 2013
Communications Workshop:
Social Story Telling in the Age of Data– Meaning and Momentum
Organization: NGO DPI
by Erica Higbie, FAWCO UN NGO Representative in New York
Program:
Communications Workshop: Social Story Telling in the Age of Data – Meaning and Momentum
Speakers:
Wendy Levy, Co-Founder Sparkwise and Senior Consultant, Sundance Institute
Dara Kell, Co-Director Dear Mandela
Christopher Nizza, Co-Director Dear Mandela
Chris...
February 20, 2013
Report on the protection of the human rights of all migrants, with particular reference to women and children.
Organization: IOM, DESA and UNFPA
by Erica Higbie, FAWCO UN NGO Representative in New York
Program:
“Measures to ensure respect for and protection of the human rights of all migrants,
with particular reference to women and children, as well as to prevent and...
February 12, 2013
Global Report of Trafficking in Persons
Organization: UNODC and Group of Friends United against Human Trafficking
by Erica Higbie
Speakers:
Yury Fedotov, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UNODC
Rani Hong, Trafficking Survivor/Founder Tronie Foundation
Kristina Kangaspunta, former chief of anti-trafficking unit
Martin Fowke Deputy head anti-trafficking unit
Presentation of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012, the...