WUNRN
UN Human Rights Council Session 23 - Panel
UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW (UPR)
& VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & GIRLS
May 30, 20l3
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Palais des Nations - Room XXVI
Geneva, Switzerland
The UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of UN Member States is an important mechanism/opportunity for NGO's to review gender components of individual country UPR Reports on human rights. The Final Reports of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group often contains gender-focused text that can be very useful in advocacy for the human rights of women and girls.
"The issue of violence against women was by far the most prominent of UPR Review recommendations made by countries on women's rights.......Within violence, the issue that received the more attention was Domestic Violence...which was followed by Female Genital Mutilation and Rape, and also Sexual Violence."
Distinguished
Speakers:
- OHCHR -
Chief of Women's Rights & Gender - Ms. Isha Dyfan
- Due
Diligence Project - Ms. Janine Moussa, Co-Director
- Center
for Women's Global Leadership - CWGL, Rutgers University - Ms. Radhika
Balakrishnan, Executive Director
- Women's
International League for Peace & Freedom - WILPF - Ms. María Muñoz
Maraver
- WUNRN
- Women's UN Report Network - Ms. Lois A. Herman, Coordinator - UPR
Power Point
Moderator: Ms. Afton Beutler, Worldwide Organization for Women – WOW
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