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This exhibition, titled "Look at the World Through Women’s Eyes", was on display through April 21, 1996. On September 28, 1996, the collection was exhibited at George Washington University in Washington D.C., during the National Women's Satellite Conference hosted by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. From April to June 1997, a selection of ...
The year 2015 marked a number of milestones, such as the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, [32] which was the focus of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) from 9–20 March 2015, [33] where global leaders took stock of progress ...
The United Nations and human rights: a critical appraisal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Riofrio Bueno Martha de los A. Gender Equality special report of discrimination against indigenous women. UN Security Council, 1998; CSW March 1, 2010 meeting. Archived November 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine; Jain, Devaki. Women, Development ...
United Nations Free & Equal is a global public information campaign led by the United Nations Human Rights Office. [1] The campaign advances equal rights and fair treatment for lesbian, gay, bi, trans, and intersex individuals around the world, and is actualized in association with UN offices, common society associations and, in certain countries, national and civil specialists. [2]
The U.N. agency promoting equality for women said Friday that violations of the U.N. Code of Conduct requiring impartiality by a mid-level manager, who reportedly supported pro-Palestinian and ...
The 1985 Conference held from 15 and 26 July in Nairobi, Kenya was the final review of the decade [2] and was led by conference president Margaret Kenyatta. [6] Leticia Shahani, widowed mother of three children and a Philippine diplomat served as the Secretary-General and made the crucial suggestion that off-the-record discussion by delegates would decrease the polarity which had plagued the ...
World Conference on Women, 1975 was held between 19 June and 2 July 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first international conference held by the United Nations to focus solely on women's issues and marked a turning point in policy directives.
The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) is an international documentary film festival. It was founded by Jasmina Bojic, a Stanford educator and film critic, in 1998 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . [ 1 ]