A GIRL’S RIGHT TO LIVE

THE MISSING GIRL: WHAT IS AT STAKE?

 

Launching of the Report

Female Foeticide and Girl Infanticide

 

 

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

 

1 PM - 2 PM

 

Room XXII

 

Panel Moderator: Brigitte Polonovski, ICW-CIF

 

Panelists:

Yakin Erturk, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women

Indira Patel, Global Expert in Harmful Cultural, Traditional and Religious Practices (GB NCW)

A Representative of the Chinese Delegation to the HRC (invited)

Lois A. Herman, Women’s UN Report Network (WUNRN)

 

Organized by the Working Group on the Girl Child of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women-Geneva (CONGO)