UN Conference Focuses on Rural Women
By Erica Higbie, FAWCO UN Representative in New York
The 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW56) was held at the United Nations in New York from Feb 27 to March 9. This year’s forum, organized by UN Women and civil society organizations like FAWCO, was focused on issues faced...
Nov 16 2011
Recent Developments on the Right to Food
Church Center, 44th St, New York
by Erica Higbie
Speaker:
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur (a knowledgeable speaker and outstanding presenter)
Presentation and Discussion, as part of a forum series at the UN; The Future of Global Food Policy
The main focus of the program was advocating an approach...
In the past few years the United Nations has been viciously attacked in Iraq and Afghanistan by terrorists when it sought to give humanitarian aid, but it has also been severely attacked by politicians and the media. At a recent NGO meeting at the headquarters in New York, representatives of the UN sought to enlist public support...
On 2 July, in a historic moment, the UN General Assembly voted unanimously for the establishment of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment, to be known as “UN Women.” The resolution that establishes the new entity is part of a larger resolution on System-wide Coherence (A/64/L.56) and is the result of years of negotiations between UN Member States...
Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas –FAWCO
(Special Consultative Status granted in 1997)
ECOSOC Quadrennial Report (2005- 2008)
Part I Introduction
Founded in 1931, the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas (FAWCO) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit corporation that serves as an umbrella network linking independent American and international volunteer organizations around the world.
FAWCO is a network of 73 organizations in...
Some numbers:
27 million - # of modern day slaves around the world
800,000 - # persons trafficked across international borders each year (UNIFEM estimate 500,000 - 2 million, other...