SPECIAL ISSUES AND EVENTS
Women's Rights Worlwide
IAW, a call for immediate and ongoing action !
Gender equality and women's rights need constant vigilance and work, to see that the gains made, are not eroded.
This is a list of several issues and actions IAW and Vrouwenbelangen have been working at, like: women in politics, sexual violence against women, quotas, equal pay, peace, sustainable development, health, education etc.
Index of several issues and actions
* Commission on Sustainable Development, 3-14 mei 2010
During CSD IAW will co-sponsor three side events and has signed a 'Position paper' with other NGOs.
* Statement sub
mitted by the International Alliance of Women and the International Network of Women Against Tobacco to the Meeting of the ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) – Annual Ministerial Review 2010 at the United Nations.
Download statement to ECOSOC
During the Commission on the Status of Women 54th Session IAW was represented by a large delegation and presented the following statements:
* Oral statement: Decision-making by Women in Conflict Situations .
Download article: “Decision Making in Conflict CSW54”
* Statement submitted by among others IAW for the session of the Commission on Population and Development - on Maternal Mortality
Download the statement.
* Of Hunger, Climate Change and the Empowerment of Women.
Download article: “Hunger-Climate Change-Empowerment CSW54”
* Joint statement to the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women: International Alliance of Women & IPAS – On Women's Reproductive Rights and Health
Download article: “CSW March 2010 joint NGO Statement – IPAS intitiated”
* CSW54 – what's next? A report and personal analysis by IAW President Rosy Weiss. Download report
* IAW Side event: Keys to Women's Empowerment: Mental Health and Human Rights. Download event document .
* Shadow Report of the IAW submitted to the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York on the Topic of Beijing+15Download the shadow report. (December 2009)
* During CSW IAW has organised two side events on Women and Climatic Change
* Action: the urgent need now is to request your Government to lobby the UN to ensure that sufficient funding is allocated so that the new UN agency can be established quickly and that these other concerns are dealt with promptly 
(Action Sheet, October 2009).
* Issue - Climate change - the Summit in Copenhagen - where are the women? (24-11-09)
* Issue - Women, Peace and Security - Arms Treaty - Campaigns - Overview of the Resolutions of the Security Council (24-11-09)
* Issue - Vrouwenbelangen 2001-2009, Special Consultative Status etc.
* Issue - CEDAW - recent reports 2009/2010, interesting websites and an overview of 25 years of CEDAW (14-10-09)
* Action - GEAR - the urgent need now is to request your Government to lobby the UN to ensure that sufficient funding is allocated so that the new UN agency can be established quickly and that these other concerns are dealt with promptly (October 2009).
* Action - GEAR - Gender Equality Architectural Reform
A campaign of NGOs, including IAW, for a new UN agency to deal with rights of women. With a letter to send to governments (09-09-09)
* Action - Sign the petition on www.independent.co.uk/petition
to save the life of the Afghan journalist, who dared to read about women's rights (01-02-08).
Latest news: Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has been pardoned and been granted asylum in an European country (09-09-2009)
* Action - GEAR - Gender Equality Archtectural Reform
Support the rights of women and girls worldwide.
Click here for the letter to send to your government today! (09-09-09)
* Action: IAW has joined the Campaign of promoting the Optional Protocol to the UN Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, by signature of her President, Rosy Weiss (September 2009)
* Action - Letter by President Lyda Verstegen to the Dutch ambassador, with a request to support Ms Farida Shaheed from Pakistan as candiate for an independent expert on cultural rights at the Human Rights Council (September 2009).
* Action - IAW calls on its affiliated organisations to urge their governments to support the statement of the CEDAW Committee for more women leadership in Climate Change (August 2009)
* Action - IAW calls on its affiliated organisations to urge their governments to ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In time! (August 2009).
* Action - Susanne Riveles, Convenor of the IAW Peace Commission, asked IAW's affiliated organisations to support an Open Letter to the UN Security Council on the implemention of Resolution 1820 (August 2009).
* Issue - women have to live in refugeecamps for years, like in Chad and Pakistan (June 2009)
* Action - The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted unanimously a resolution recognizing maternal death and morbidity (MDI) as pressing human rights concerns.
Helene Sackstein, IAW representative at the UNHRC, worked with other NGOs for three years at this resolution (June 2009).
* Report of four years of special consultative status of Vrouwenbelangen to the UN, by President Lyda Verstegen (25-05- 09)
* Action - A horrifying video was shown by various media of a public flogging of a young woman. IAW called on its affiliated organisations to condemn these practices (April 2009).
* Issue - the Resilience of Girlschools in Kandahar, Afghanistan (14-01-09).
* Action - IAW President Rosy Weiss wrote an Open Letter against the Taliban ordering the closure of all girls’ schools in the war-ravaged Swat district of Pakistan and took it to CSW (January 2009).
* Action - Vrouwenbelangen asks the Security Council to implement resolution 1325 better, because Nobel Peace Prize winner Mathaari forgot the women in Kosovo during Peace negotiations (11-12-08).
* Action - Vrouwenbelangen has sent congratulations to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee (11-12-08).
* Action - President Lyda Verstegen of Vrouwenbelangen signed a petition for the Mexican Federation's Museum of Women and wrote a letter in Spanish (28-09-08)
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Issue - The ten promises of Barack Obama
Let's remind the Obama Adminsitration of these promises in the coming years! You can find the ten promises on: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
* Issue - Quota's - Women in Europe will have to boost women in power (01-07-08)
* IAW Action - Myanmar: support the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and stop the Arms Flow (01-06-08)
* Issue - Celebration of twenty-five years of CEDAW (30-07-08)
* Issue -A Place for Prostitution? Statement by IAW President Rosy Weiss, during a Conference in June 2007 in Iceland (15-06-07).
* Issue - Missing Girls, an IAW side event at CSW (01-04-07)
* Issue - Maternal Mortality is becoming a catastrophe (01-04-07)
* Issue - Courageous Women - several courageous women worldwide, including the women who have won the Nobel Prize for Peace (01-06-07)
* Issue - History of WEL, Australia and the Wollemia (05-06-07)
Commission on the Status of Women
* Commission on the Status of Women - Delegations of Vrouwenbelangen en IAW went to CSW 2009, 2008 and 2007
IAW Board Meetings, Congresses etc.
* 2009 - IAW Board Meeting in Switzerland 11-19 June (01-08-09)
* 2008 - IAW Board Meeting 4-8 October, The Hague (20-07-08)
* 2007 - IAW 34th Triennial Congress 2007, the five IAW Commissions and issues at the Round Tables and Seminars in Delhi, India (01-12-07)
* 2006 - Board Meeting 2006 in Paris (05-05-07)
* 2005 - Board Meeting 2005 in Burkina Faso (in Dutch)
Dit is een verzameling onderwerpen en acties die in het nieuws zijn of zijn geweest en die een speciale vermelding verdienen.
Zowel in het Engels als in het Nederlands.
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