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Celebrating
60th Anniversary BPW-UN BPW
members celebrated the 60th Anniversary
of our consultative status with the United
Nations with a delicious cake during BPW
International Dinner on Friday 2 March 2007.
At this same event, BPW Moscow presented
Antoinette Ruegg and President Chonchanok
Viravan with Silver Medals, a Peace Award
from Russia for BPW International in recognition
of BPW International's work world-wide for
Peace. We also publicised "Empowering
Women Worldwide”, the history of Project
Five-O, written by Sylvia Perry. To view
the photo gallery of this celebration, visit
the BPW web site at
www.bpw-international.org/un-connections/un-connection-activities-at-un-60th-anniversary-bpw-consulative-status-gallery.htm
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BPW
International Panel "Violence against
Women and the Girl Child : Urgent Issues
and Solutions"
United Nations Conference Room 4, 5 March
2007
Featuring Nobel Prize winner
Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini and other experts
in BPW from Italy, Egypt, United States
and Brazil. Co-Sponsor by Ministry of Foreign
Affair of Italy
BPW Panel on
Violence Against Women: Urgent Issues
and Solution
On 5 March 2007, BPW
International and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Italy held a Panel Presentation
inside the United Nations Headquarters
in New York, in parallel to Commission
on Status of Women 51st Session. We had
many distinguished speakers including
a Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini
(BPW Italy), Anita Palmeri (BPW Italy),
Talia Carner (Award winning author of
Puppet Child and China Doll - BPW Manhattan,
New York), Beatrize Fett (President of
BPW Brazil) and Dr. Amany Asfour (President
of BPW Cairo, Egypt).
We had a room filled with an audience
of over 200 people! Many issues on violence
against women and the girl child were
discussed through the work of Dr. Rita
Levi-Montalcini helping over 12,000 children,
and the problem of infanticide in China.
The solutions presented include the promotion
of the Bill of Rights of the Girl Child
by BPW Italy, Maria da Penha Law –
the new legislation about violence against
women in Brazil and the ways to gain financial
independence in order for women to break
free from their abusers. Annarosa Colangelo,
Chair of UN Committee for BPW International,
did a splendid job in arranging the venue
within the UN. Photographs from this event
as well as the presentations from this
UN panel can be downloaded from www.bpw-international.org/activities/activities-conference-NGO-CSW-2007.htm
Dr. Chonchanok
Viravan,
International President
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Joint Written Statement with Project Five-O
for 51th CSW Session. |
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Joint
Oral Statement with Project Five-O for 51th
CSW Session.  |
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Highlight of BPW social events during CSW |
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BPW Caucus
Byblos Restuarant,
Monday 26 Feb 2007, 3:00 am - 5:30
pm.
About 230 BPW members
from 34 countries attended Commission
on Status of Women (CSW) 51st Session
in New York. BPW held a caucus to
work on key issues to lobby for
changes the draft document of CSW
51st session. Two key things were
finalized. The first is to add the
text to indicate that teaching self-defence
to women should be used to prevent
violence against women. The second
is to ensure that in rehabilitation
victims of gender based violence
require comprehensive programmes
for physical, psychological, economic
and social recovery. Members were
asked to lobby the government delegates
from their countries on these two
points.
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BPW Dinner,
Byblos Restuarant, Friday 2 March
2007, 7:00 am - 9:30 pm.
Reservation with President's office
is required. Cost 35 USD per person.
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For more details listing of events and other
information regarding CSW 51st Session, visit
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/51sess.htm
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4-15 March 2002,
United Nations, New York, USA |
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Dr.
Chonchanok Viravan, Asia-Pacific regional
coordinator of BPW International and member
of BPW Thailand, attended as NGO as well
as a Thai government delegate. She made
several contributions to the final agreed
conclusion on the issues of Women in poverty.
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Joint
Oral Statement with Project-Five-O for 46th
CSW Session.  |
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June 2001, United
Nations, New York, USA |
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Dr. Chonchanok Viravan,
Asia-Pacific Regional Coordinator of BPW
International and member of BPW Thailand,
joined BPW delegates led by BPW International
president Dr. Pat Harrison in New York
to attend the Beijing +5 Review. She also
gave a talk at the Youth Forum on behalf
of Young BPW International.
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