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New York Event: Crafting Inclusive Shadow Reports for CEDAW

07/07/2009

Please join the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, the CoC Netherlands, and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership for a reception celebrating the launch of:

Equal and Indivisible: Crafting Inclusive Shadow Reports for CEDAW

A guide to increase the effectiveness of groups reporting on lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights issues in shadow reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

When: July 23, 2009
6:00 – 7:30 pm

Where:The Church Center
777 United Nations Plaza
2nd Floor
between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave

Speakers will include:

  • Cary Alan Johnson, Executive Director, IGLHRC
  • Sunila Abeysekara, International Women's Rights Action Watch
  • Azusa Yamashita, Gay Japan News, Japan
  • Nigar Nagiyeva, Gender & Development, Azerbaijan
  • Violeta Neubauer, Slovenia, CEDAW Committee Member
  • Sylvia Pimentel, Brazil, CEDAW Committee Member
  • Dorcas Coker-Appiah, Ghana, CEDAW Committee Member
  • Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
  • Grace Poore, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

Please RSVP to Jacqueline Bevilaqua, jbevilaqua@iglhrc.org, no later than 5pm on Monday July 20th.

Refreshments will be served

Source URL: http://www.iglhrc.org/content/new-york-event-crafting-inclusive-shadow-reports-cedaw