PANEL TWO - Women’s human rights and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls as defined in the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century"
(Tuesday, 4 March 2003, 10:00 am - 1:00pm)

PANELISTS:

Ms. Zhang Lixi, Vice President, China Women’s University, Beijing (China)

Paper: Creating a World Free of Violence against Women

Justice Vera Duarte Lobo de Pina, Coordinator of the National Committee of Human Rights (Republic of Cape Verde)

Paper: Women’s human rights, with a specific emphasis on African human rights instruments and their use over the years to promote and protect women’s human rights (in French only)

Ms. Barbara Limanowska, expert on trafficking in human beings, and participant in the expert group meeting organized by DAW in preparation of the topic for CSW (Poland)

Paper: Trafficking in women – key outcomes and recommendations from the expert group meeting on “Trafficking in women and girls”, held in Glen Cove, USA, 18-22 November 2002

Ms. Ayse Feride Acar, Chairperson, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Paper: Recent key trends and issues in the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women