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Webinar: Violence Against Women in Time of COVID-19

Dear civil society representatives,

We are pleased to announce the latest in the webinar series Violence Against Women in Time of COVID-19 which will be held on Monday 29 June starting at 16:00 hours Central European Time (10:00 hours US EST).

This webinar is hosted in collaboration with the Coalition of Faith-Based Organizations, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the Vienna Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Vienna NGO Committee on the Status of Women, and KAICIID. The latest event follows an initial webinar and the latest event on Faith for Earth, and forms part in a series of talks on FBOs and crime-related issues.

Please email coalitionfbo@gmail.com in advance to receive a link to the event.

Moderator:

Michael Platzer, Co-Chair of the Coalition of Faith-Based Organizations

Speakers:

Dubravka Šimonovic, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
Sakena Yacoobi, Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning
Ngoji Eze, UPF Ambassador for Peace
Fatma Ismetova Usheva, Researcher, UNODC
Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, Belgrade U; Director Victimology Society Serbia
Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Chair The Alliance of NGOs on CPCJ

We hope you may find this of interest and thank you for your attention.

Best regards,

Civil Society Team

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria

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CoNGO NOTES: To learn more about the NGO Committee on Status of Women in Vienna, visit www.ngocswvienna.org.

Monthly Meeting: NGO Committee on the Status of Women – NY

Monthly Meeting: NGO Committee on the Status of Women – NY

June’s Monthly Meeting will focus on the intersection between health and finance in the gender impacts of COVID-19. The topic will be approached through a multilateral lens, with speakers from various sectors including civil society, government, and United Nations agencies.

Read the detailed concept note and program with the speakers bios.

TO PARTICIPATE, register here:
PROGRAM:
NGO CSW/NY Business Meeting
Updates from Houry Geudelekian, Chair of NGO CSW/NY and UN Representative, Unchained At Last
NGO CSWs in the Regions:
Dr. Nata Menabde, Executive Director of the World Health Organization Office at the United Nations
Nafissatou J. Diop, Ph.D., Chief, Gender and Human Rights Branch, UNFPA
Crystal Simeoni, Afrifem Economics Collective
Crystal J. Rogers, Community Organizer, New York State Nurses Association
Moderated by Rosa Lizarde, NGO CSW/NY Member-at-Large and Global Director, Feminist Task Force
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CoNGO NOTES: To learn more about the NGO Committee on Status of Women-New York, visit its website. To learn more about CoNGO’s committees on the status of women, and other substantive and regional committees, in Geneva and Vienna, and other regions, visit us here.
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