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July
2011
Online training course for e-tutors of the interregional course "Measurement of violence against women through statistical surveys"
Online, through 11 July 2011
Host / Sponsor: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
The online training course will be carried out in English from 20 June to 11 July 2011. This 30 hours course is offered without any cost to select a group of experts from the five regions of the world (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and West Asia) who could be hired for a two-months period to tutor groups of participants to the e-course "Measurement of violence against women through statistical surveys" that will be implemented from 8 August to 3 October 2011. The applicants should have specific interest and/or experience in the area of violence against women (VAW) as well as knowledge on the production, use and analysis of gender indicators and VAW statistics.
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World Population Day
Worldwide, 11 July 2011
Host / Sponsor: United Nations
In 1989, in its decision 89/46, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that, in order to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues in the context of overall development plans and programmes and the need to find solutions for these issues, 11 July should be observed by the international community as World Population Day.
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CEDAW: 49th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
New York, USA, 11 - 29 July 2011
Host / Sponsor: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will hold its fortyninth session from 11 - 29 July 2011.
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CEDAW: General Discussion on "women in conflict and post-conflict situations"
New York, USA, 18 July 2011
Host / Sponsor: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
On the occasion of its 49th session, to be held in New York from 11 July to 29 July 2011, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will hold a general discussion on the protection of women in conflict and post-conflict situations in the context of the following provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): -
Articles 2 (a – g) on the core obligations of States parties to the Convention; Article 4 on temporary special measures; Article 5(a) on the modification of social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women;
- Article 6 on the suppression of trafficking and exploitation of women; Article 7 & 8 on women’s participation in political and public life and their representation in government and at the international level; Article 9 on women’s rights to a nationality; Article 10 on the right to education; Article 11 on the right to work; Article 12 on the right to health; Article 15 (1) on women’s equality with men before the law.
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women invites United Nations specialized entities and bodies, United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms, non-governmental organizations and other interested organizations and individuals to participate in the general discussion and to provide written submissions.
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