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...
Date: 3 – 15 March 2013
Location: In and around the United Nations, New York
Program: 57th Commission on the Status of Women: elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls
Format: Multiple sessions, side events (128) and parallel events (350)
Organization: UNWomen and NGO CSW, member states (131), working groups, civil...
Learn more about the Commission on the Status of Women: Agreed Conclusions, click here.
On March 18, 2013, to honor National Women's History Month, the US Embassy in Vienna Public Affairs Department, AWA Vienna and FAWCO drew attention to the issue of female oppression by sex trafficking and forced prostitution.
After the screening of a segment on prostitution in India from the PBS documentary “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,”
On the last day of CSW57, four female United States judges presented their perspectives on domestic violence, which they defined as; violence directed against women by their intimate partners is an epidemic of global proportions that has devastating physical, emotional, financial and social effects.
Efforts to combat domestic violence are now moving toward recognition of it as a violation of...