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Photos from the 2012 G8 BMENA Initiative
A selection of photographs from the events of the 2012 G8 Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative is now available on the League of Women Voters Flickr site.
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Women of the World: Looking to the Future: 2013 and Beyond
| Zaida ArguedasWomen of the World 11th Annual Awards Luncheon co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Calvert County, Maryland and the Commission for Women of Calvert County. Speaker: Zaida Arguedas, Deputy Executive Director, League of Women Voters of the United StatesBegin Event:2013-03-16 14:30:00End Event:2013-03-16 18:00:00 -
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Implementing Laws Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls-Successfully
| Zaida ArguedasThe 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.
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League Urges Senate to Ratify CEDAW
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).
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Looking Back on What We Accomplished
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English-Language News Clips from the 9th Forum for the Future
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Announcing the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
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.
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Durable and Meaningful Democracy is about more than Elections
| Zaida ArguedasCalling 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.
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BMENA CIVIL SOCIETY REACH AGREEMENT ON FINAL DOCUMENT
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.
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Foreign-Language News Clips from the 9th Forum for the Future
Here is a selection of foreign-language press coverage for the 9th Forum for the Future, with English summaries:
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