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The League of Women Voters has received approval to organize a parallel NGO forum during the 57th meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) that will take place in New York. Implenting Laws Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls-Successfully will feature Dr. Bea Hanson, Acting Director, Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, Dr. H. B.
The League joined over 100 organizations in sending a letter to the U.S. Senate urging ratification of the convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
The fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 March 2013.
Calling for sustainable democracy, sustainable prosperity, and sustainable security and peace U.S. Deputy Secretary William J. Burns brought to a close the 9th Forum for the Future in Tunis, Tunisia last week. Deputy Secretary Burns attended in Secretary Hillary Clinton’s absence after she took ill last week.
Since 2004, the outset of the G8 BMENA Initiative, civil society participants from the region have held a "parallel" meeting concurrent with the meetings of the Forum. The 2012 Civil Society Preparatory Meeting, which included for the first time the participation of the private sector, was called to order at 9:00 am on Tuesday, December 11, under the leadership of the League of Women Voters and its Tunisian partners, ARFORGHE and the Tunisian American Chamber of Commerce.
Here is a selection of foreign-language press coverage for the 9th Forum for the Future, with English summaries:
FRENCH-LANGUAGE NEWS CLIPS
With the cancellation of the scheduled labor strike at the 11th hour, and without the attendance of U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton due to illness, the 9th Forum for the Future was called to order by Dr.
