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Meeting Hours: a.m. 10:00 - 1:00; lunch: 1:15 - 2:45; p.m. 3:00 - 6:00; evening: 6:15 - open 5 September 1995 Room L Colloquium on women and health security WHO/UNFPA (a.m.) Panel on women, health and work WHO/UNESCO (lunch) Panel on women, health and violence WHO/CHR (p.m.) Panel on women,health and AIDS WHO (evening) Room M Panel on changing role of women in the economy and the impact of globalization (a.m.) ILO/UNU/WIDER/WORLD BANK Panel on commitment to the world's women (lunch) UNIFEM Panel on women in conflict situations (p.m.) WFP/UNHCR/UNFPA Roundtable discussion on women and men on the road to Istanbul-HABITAT II (evening) UNCHS (HABITAT) 6 September 1995 Room L Girl child: thematic workshops (a.m.) UNICEF Panel on agents of change in the 21st century (p.m.) UNICEF Room M Panel discussion on industrial global change, women and socio-economic progress (a.m.) UNIDO High level panel on gender, environment and sustainable human development (lunch) UNDP/UNEP Implementing the ICPD: the women's perspectives (p.m.) UNFPA Panel on banking on the poor: women's economic empowerment (evening) UNIFEM 7 September Room L Feeding 5 billion people by 2010: women's share (A.M.) FAO/IFAD/WFP/WORLD BANK Women, population and development: a success story of integrating populations needs with women's empowerment and poverty reduction in China (lunch) FAO Empowering rural women for the 21st century: strategies for employment and organization (p.m.) FAO/ILO/UNIDO/ITC/UNV/DDSMS Sounds and shows by rural women (evening) FAO/INTERAGENCY/NGOs Room M Women and global governance: politics and identity (a.m.) UNIFEM/ENESCO/CONGO Panel on women in leadership positions (lunch) ECA/OAU/UNDP Panel on women and substance abuse, women and addiction (p.m.) UNDCP/NGO Committees World Bank collaboration with borrowers (evening) WORLD BANK 8 September Room L Opening ceremony with the Jomtien partners. Presentation of Global Framework of Action on Education for Girls and Women. Panel discussion (a.m.) UNESCO/UNDP/WORLD BANK/UNICEF/UNFPA Three roundtables chaired by different agencies (UNICEF, UNDP, WORLD BANK, UNFPA and UNESCO) (p.m.) UNESCO Literacy Day Prize award ceremony and cultural event (evening) UNESCO Room M Panel discussion on human rights of women (a.m.) UNCHR/UNESCO/UNIFEM/UNICEF/UNHCR/ILO/UNICRI Panel on reproductive health and refugee women (lunch) UNHCR/UNFPA/WHO Workshop on girl's education and human rights (CEDAW/UNESCO Manifesto) (p.m.) CEDAW/UNESCO Panel discussion on violence against women (evening) UNHCR/UNICRI/UNIFEM/UNCHR 9 September Room L Panel discussion on the complementary of women's rights and the two Conventions: CRC and CEDAW (a.m.) UNICEF/UNIFEM/IPU Legal standards in the context of gender (Book launch) (lunch) UNDP/RBLAC Gender mainstreaming: obstacles and opportunities (p.m.) UNDP/UNRISD/UNV Panel on implementing women's health and its relation to industrial development (evening) UNIDO/GAWH Room M Reclaiming civil society in the global south (a.m.-p.m.) DAW/Centre for the Study of the Global South Panel (evening) WORLD BANK/IDB 11 September 1995 Room L Activities on Youth (a.m.) DAW (UNICEF/UNESCO/UNIFEM/UNFPA) Roundtable on reproductive health of African youth (with video) (p.m.) UNIFEM/UNFPA/DAW Activities on youth (p.m.) DAW (UNICEF/UNESCO/UNIFEM/UNFPA) 12 September Room L Panel on women and natural resources management - water, sanitation, waste management, environment and renewable sources of energy (a.m.) INSTRAW/DDSMS Economics of gender equality (lunch) WORLD BANK Panel on economic and political empowerment of women and the need for gender statistics (p.m.) INSTRAW/DDSMS Panel on women's health in Africa (evening) WHO Room M Panel discussion on women's empowerment and reproductive health (a.m.) UNFPA The missing links: financial services for the majority (lunch) DAW/WOMEN WORLD BANKING Roundtable on women's economic empowerment, globalization and economic restructuring (p.m.) UNIFEM Video documentary on export promotion: villages in Ghana and transitional economies (evening) ITC/ILO 13 September 1995 Room L Building bridges: women speak out on peace (a.m.) UNIFEM A decade of change and challenge, 1985-1995 (lunch) REGIONAL COMMISIONS Workshop panel on gender statistics (p.m.) JCGP/UNSTAT Room M Workshop: dialogue on CEDAW (a.m.) CEDAW/UNIFEM Women and credit (lunch) DAW Panel on gender and science and technology (p.m.) UNCTAD Panel on women's health in the western Pacific region (evening) WHO 14 September 1995 Room L Gender and development: a UNU perspective (a.m.) UNU/WIDER Women and the media (p.m.) UNESCO -----