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UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - one of 5 UN Regional Commissions - UNECE's major aim is to promote pan-European economic integration. To do so, it brings together 56 countries located in the European Union, non-EU Western and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and North America.

1st July 2014: deadline for answers to our Call for Abstracts / Input to the review
31 July 2014: dealine for “early bird” registration
15 October 2014: deadline for registration

Call for Abstracts / Input – Online Registration Open!

In collaboration with the UN ECE*, the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva (NGO CSW Geneva), will host an NGO Forum in preparation of the Beijing+20 UN ECE Regional Review on 3-5 November 2014 in the Palais des Nations – Geneva, prior to the UN ECE regional review meeting of 6-7 November.

National & International Women’s Rights Advocates,
Grass-roots Women’s Groups and Networks,
as well as UN Agencies and Academic Institutions, Media and Private Sector Actors
from the 56 countries of the UN ECE region
are cordially invited to participate and contribute!

General Information on the Geneva NGO Forum is available here. See also the concept note.

Online registration is now open!

Take advantage of special conditions for early registration (until 31 July 2014)
and proceed with online registration.

Call for Abstracts / Input to the review process

Contribute to this review by bringing your grass-root perspective to the review and by sharing

· your assessment of
(a) the achievements, remaining gaps and challenges of implementation of each of the 12 critical areas of the Beijing Platform for Action in your country or region, as well as
(b) cross-cutting and/or emerging issues such as migration, human trafficking, demographic trends, impact of the economic crisis, climate change, etc, that particularly affect your country

· your recommendations to your government to further progress on implementation

More information is available on our Call for Abstracts and its guidance note

Answers to the call for abstract must be done together with online registration.

For additional information contact us using the contact form.

Note: The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE), is comprised of 56 countries: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav  Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uzbekistan. More information on the UN ECE is available here.