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Democracy for Human Rights Through CEDAW
9 December 2021 @ 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM EST
Free
Date: Thursday, 9 December 2021Time: 11:00am EST Find your timezone here.On Thursday, 9 December, NGO CSW/NY will be hosting an official side event of The Summit for Democracy convened by the U.S. Department of State, Democracy for Human Rights Through CEDAW. The interactive panel will bring together human rights experts, political leaders, and grass-roots women’s groups to showcase a Cities for CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) campaign.
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- Soon-Young Yoon, UN Representative for the International Alliance of Women
- Houry Geudelekian, Chair, NGO CSW/NY
- Dubravka Simonovic, Former Member of the CEDAW Committee & Former Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
- Rangita de Silva de Alwas, Assistant Dean of International Affairs, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Alda Facio, Former Member of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls
- Krishanti Dharmaraj, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University
- Moderated by Terry Dale Ince, CEDAW Committee of Trinidad/Tobago
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