Prevention of Human Trafficking and Protection of its Victims, especially Women and Children
Report on UN General Assembly Interactive Dialogue
4 April 2012, New York
Speakers:
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the 66th General Assembly
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary- General
Milos Koterec, President of ECOSOC (Statement read)
YuryFedotov, Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UNODC
Mira Sorvino, UN Goodwill Ambassador against Human...
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FAWCO member Paula Lucas was named a Reader's Digest Hometown Hero. She founded the American Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center (AODVCC). FAWCO partnered in 2009-2011 with AODVCC in their worldwide Ambassadors Training. Read article.
UN Conference Focuses on Rural Women
By Erica Higbie, FAWCO UN Representative in New York
The 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW56) was held at the United Nations in New York from Feb 27 to March 9. This year’s forum, organized by UN Women and civil society organizations like FAWCO, was focused on issues faced...
Nov 16 2011
Recent Developments on the Right to Food
Church Center, 44th St, New York
by Erica Higbie
Speaker:
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur (a knowledgeable speaker and outstanding presenter)
Presentation and Discussion, as part of a forum series at the UN; The Future of Global Food Policy
The main focus of the program was advocating an approach...
In the past few years the United Nations has been viciously attacked in Iraq and Afghanistan by terrorists when it sought to give humanitarian aid, but it has also been severely attacked by politicians and the media. At a recent NGO meeting at the headquarters in New York, representatives of the UN sought to enlist public support...
