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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF);Women’s UN Report Network (WUNRN) and Worldwide Organization for Women (WOW)

 

                Are pleased to invite you to a Panel during the 7th Session

                           of the UN Human Rights Council  

Panel:                        Women's Human Rights:

                 “Marriage without Consent”

                    Emerging family Patterns

Date:                Wednesday, 12th March 2008


Time:                          11:00 to 13:00 h


Venue:                       Palais des Nations, Geneva–Room XXII

 

Moderator:          Conchita Poncini  (International Federation of University Women)

 

Speakers:    

                 

            • “Violence against Women – Challenges”

                       Yakin Erturk UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women

 

·        “Is Marriage a Contract? Diversity of Laws”

                                    Krishna Ahoojapatel, President NGO Committee on the

                                                                  Status of Women

 

·        “Marriages Without Consent - Global Issues”

                                                Lois A. Herman  WUNRN -Women’s UN Report Network

 

       • “Consequences on Women’s Mental & Physical Health”

                                    Afton Beutler Co-Conveynor of NGO CSW

                                                      Health and Human Rights

 

 

                             Presented in Commoration of the 60th year Anniversary

                                   of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 

              Article 16 (2) “Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and
                                full consent of the intending spouses.





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