NGO CSW Forum 2015 - NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY

NGO CSW Forum 2015
PROGRAM FOR CONSULTATION DAY
“Celebrate the Feminist and Women’s Movements 1975-2015”
8 March 2015, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
The program emcees are Houry Geudelekian, Armenian Relief Society and
Susan O’Malley, International Federation of Business and Professional Women
9:00 – 9:30 am
9:30 – 10:00 am
Opening Event: Women of the World – Songs from Mexico, Denmark, Kenya,
and China- Readings from the UN Conferences in Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi
and Beijing by Mahnaz Afkhami, former Minister of Women’s Affairs of Iran and
President/CEO of Women’s Learning Partnership, H. E. Ambassador Ib Peterson
from Denmark, Sheila Katzman, Chair of the Cities for CEDAW/New York City, and
Tanya Selvaratnam, Producer/Artist and author of “The Big Lie”.
Welcome messages
Soon-Young Yoon, Chair, NGO Committee on the Status
of Women/New York
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women
Video clips: World Conferenced on Women in Mexico City 1975, 1980, 1985
and 1995
10:00 – 10:20 am
10:20 – 11:45 am
Keynote address: “The Selling of Innocents”, Ruchira Gupta, Women of
Distinction Awardee and winner of a Clinton Global Citizen award (with film clips)
“Beijing + 20 - Voices from the Regions”
Historic review of the UN/international women’s movement from 1975-1995 and
impact by region, regional Declarations, Indigenous women’s Declaration
Panelists:
Dinah Musindarwezo – The African Women’s Development and Communication
Network (Femnet), Kenya
Asma Khader – Vice-President of Independent Elections Commission and former
Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women, Jordan
Sepali Kottegoda - Women and Media Collective, Sri Lanka
Simone Ovart – Zonta International, Switzerland
Mabel Bianco – Fundacion para Estudio e de la Mujer (FEIM), Argentina
Gertrud Astrom – Swedish Women’s Lobby, Sweden
Agnes Leina – Ll’laramatak Community Concerns (ICC-K)
Ambassador Dubravka Simonovic – Ambassador of Croatia to the OSCE and UN in
Vienna and former CEDAW expert
Moderator: Ambassador Carlos Garcia Gonzalez – former Permanent
Representative for El Salvador to the United Nations
Discussant: Charlotte Bunch – Board of Governor's Distinguished Service Professor
in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University
11:45 – 1:00 pm
Lunch: (participants on their own)
1:00 – 1:30 pm
“What Beijing Plus 20 Must Accomplish”
1:30 – 2:45 pm
“Strategic Action to Strengthen the BPfA: Young Activist Perspectives”
Dr. Gertrude Mongella – “educator, politician, diplomat activist”, former UnderSecretary General, UN Fourth World Conference on Women
This panel will feature young activists who are actively carrying out the vision of
the Beijing Platform for Action, CEDAW, and the post-2015 development agenda.
With audience participation, the speakers will develop ideas for a strategic plan of
action.
Introductory Remarks:
Mary Robinson-Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and former President
of Ireland
Panelists:
Emilia Reyes –Equidad de Genero
Esther Kimani – Young Women’s Leadership Institute Nairobi
Diana Mao – NOMI Network
Geraldo Porteny Backal – Young Men for Gender Equality
Faith Nenkai Metiaki - Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Forum
des educatrices africaines
Moderator/Panelist: Fabio Palacio – International Movement ATD 4th World
Discussant: Thayvie Sinn – Save Cambodia
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Announcements about the March and Closing Song
NGO CSW theme song – “Keep on Movin’ Forward”
Led by Laura Kroh, singer