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CSD NGO Women's Caucus


For a list of International Days / Observances
on the Toolkit for Women site.

Schedule of Upcoming Meetings
of the UN CSD and other bodies

 

Calendar of UN Events of Special relevance to Women and Development Activities, Jan - Sept 2002

Calendar of International Events Leading up to Earth Summit 2002

      

Calendar of UN Events of Special relevance to Women and Development Activities, Jan - Sept 2002

JANUARY 14 - February 1, 2002
CEDAW 26th Session: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Countries Reporting: 
1. Estonia: Combined initial, second and third periodic report
2. Fiji: Initial report
3. Iceland: Combined third and fourth periodic report
4. Portugal: Fourth and fifth periodic reports
5. Russian Federation: Fifth periodic report
6. Sri Lanka: Combined third and fourth periodic report 
7. Trinidad & Tobago: Combined initial, second and third periodic report 
8. Uruguay: Combined second and third periodic report

      

JANUARY 14 - 25, 2002, New York
International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) Final PrepCom 
During the PrepCom, the FfD-NGO Ad Hoc Working Group is facilitating several events. These events are open to all NGOs. For more information, please contact Wendy Flannery (Sisters of Mercy) at email: mercyun@aol.com] or UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) at email: ngls@un.org

      

JANUARY 28 - February 8, New York
World Summit on Sustainable Development: PrepCom 2 
Documents for the informal meeting and for PrepCom 2 can be found on the Summit website at: http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/prepcom2.html

Women's Caucus Strategy Session : Sunday, 27h January, 1-4 pm. Location to be announced; details from rebecca@wedo.org.
The session will develop priorities for the MSHD participants to negotiate directly with governments during the four MSHD sessions.

Women's Caucus meetings Daily at 10am.

Panel on Women's Action Agenda Monday, 1/28 1:15-2:45pm

Multi-stakeholder Dialogue Sessions
Opening plenary Tuesday 1/29 3-6pm
Parallel dialogues Wednesday 1/30 10-1pm
Parallel dialogues Wednesday 1/30 3-6pm
Final plenary Thursday 1/31 10-1pm

      

MARCH 4-15, 2002, New York
UN Commission on the Status of Women: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/46sess.htm
(See IWTC website: http://www.iwtc.org for further details)

      

APRIL 8-12, 2002
Second World Assembly on Aging (WAA2), Madrid, Spain http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/ageing/waa/
To subscribe to the Aging Assembly Listserve, please e-mail: ageingassembly-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

      

APRIL 5-9, 2002
World NGO Forum on Aging, Madrid, Spain
Information about the Forum including registration form can be found on the official NGO Forum website at: http://www.forumageing.org/index.htm

      

MAY 8-10, 2002 
UN Special Session on Children, New York.
http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/ 

      

MAY 6-10, 2002 
Children's NGO Forum: 
NGO information can be found on the NGO Committee on UNICEF site at: http://www.ngosatunicef.org/ 

      

JUNE 3 - 21, 2002, New York (Tentative) 
CEDAW 27th Session: Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. 
Countries Reporting: 
1. Belgium: Combined third and fourth periodic report 
2. Costa Rica: Initial report
3. Denmark: Fourth and fifth periodic reports 
4. Tunisia: Combined third and fourth periodic report
5. Ukraine: Combined fourth and fifth periodic report
6. Zambia: Combined third and fourth periodic report

      

SEPTEMBER 2-11, 2002
The World Summit on Sustainable Development will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre just outside Johannesburg. 
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/

      

Calendar of International Events Leading up to Earth Summit 2002

 2001

6th – 8th June

Eminent Persons Roundtable – Europe & North America

Vail, USA

11th – 22nd June

UN Forum on Forests (1st Session)

UNHQ, New York

14th – 15th June

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Southern Cone

Santiago, Chile

17th – 24th June

Sustainable Development: Fact or Dream 10 Years After the Rio Summit

Havana, Cuba

18th – 20th June

Eminent Persons’ Roundtable – Latin America & Caribbean

Bridgeport, Barbados

20th –22nd June

North America Local Government Conference (ICLEI)

Ann Arbor, USA

25th – 27th June

Eminent Persons’ Roundtable – Africa

Cairo, Egypt

25th – 27th June

Special Session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS

UNHQ, New York

27th – 28th June

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Central & Eastern Europe

Bucharest, Romania

28th – 29th June

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Caribbean

Havana, Cuba

2nd – 3rd July

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Andean

Quito, Ecuador

2nd – 4th July

7th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment

San Francisco, USA

9th – 11th July

Regional Roundtable for East Asia & Pacific

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

10th – 13th July

Challenges of a Changing Earth: Global Change Open Science Conference

Amsterdam, N’lands

12th – 13th July

Regional Consultative Meeting - Europe

Geneva, Switzerland

17th – 18th July

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Meso-America Region

San Salvador, El S’dor

25th – 27th July

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – North East Asia (Senior Environment Official Meeting ASPEC)

Beijing, China

30th July – 1st August

Eminent Person’s Roundtable – Central & South Asia

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

August (Week 1)

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Southeast Asia

Manila, Philippines

19th – 23rd August

World Assembly – CIVICUS – World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Vancouver, Canada

August (Week 4)

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – South Asia

Bhutan or Kathmandu

31st August – 7th Sept

World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance

Durban, South Africa

2nd – 9th Sept

Youth Earth Summit (YES2001) (Peacechild)

Baku, Azerbaijan

5th – 6th Sept

Global Round-Table on Inter-Linkages (for Rio +10)

Tokyo, Japan

3rd – 5th Sept

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – South Africa (South African Development Community (SADC))

Gaborone, Botswana

5th – 7th Sept

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Central Asia

Almaty, Kazakhstan

5th – 7th Sept

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Northern Africa

Tunis, Tunisia

Sept (Mid)

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Pacific (during South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Ministerial Governing Council Meeting, 10th – 14th?)

Apia, Samoa

10th – 12th Sept

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – East Africa (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD))

Djibouti, Djibouti

11th Sept

General Assembly (56th Session)

UNHQ, New York

17th – 19th Sept

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – Central Africa (Economic Commission for Central African States (ECCAS))

Libreville, Gabon

20th – 21st Sept

Accelerating Local Sustainability: Evaluating European Local Agenda 21 Processes (ICLEI)

London, UK

24th – 25th Sept

Regional Preparatory Meeting – Europe & North America

Geneva, Switzerland

23rd – 25th Sept

Regional Stakeholder Roundtable – West Asia

Manama, Bahrain

24th – 26th Sept

Sub-regional Preparatory Meeting – West Africa (Economic Commission For West African States (ECOWAS) and Inter State Committee on Fight Against Drought in the Sahel (CILSS))

Abuja, Nigeria

2nd – 4th October

World Bank Group & IMF Annual Meeting

Washington, USA

8th – 10th October

Southern NGO Summit

Algiers, Algeria

15th – 18th October

Regional Preparatory Meeting – Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

21st – 24th October

13th Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of the Environment of Latin America & Caribbean

Rio, Brazil

23rd – 24th October

Regional Preparatory Meeting – Latin America & Caribbean

Rio, Brazil

28th – 29th October

Special Session of the Joint Committee on Environment & Development / Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment / part of Rio +10 Preparations

Cairo, Egypt

November (early)

Regional Preparatory Meeting – West Asia

Cairo, Egypt

5th – 9th November

Rome +5 (World Food Summit: Five Years Later)

Rome, Italy

9th – 13th November

WTO Fourth Ministerial Meeting

Qatar

12th – 13th November

Equity for a Small Planet: An International Forum on the WSSD 2002 (IIED)

Canada

27th – 29th November

Regional Preparatory Meeting – Asia & Pacific

Phnom Penh, Camb’ia

3rd – 7th December

International Conference on Freshwater

Bonn, Germany

5th December

GEF Council Meeting – NGO Consultation Meeting

Washington, USA

6th – 7th December

GEF Council Meeting

Washington, USA

22nd – 24th December

Special CAMRE / Economic Council / Ministers of Planning Rio +10 Meeting

Cairo, Egypt

 

2002

14th – 25th January

International Conference on Financing for Development (PrepCom 4)

UNHQ, New York

9th – 11th February

Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2002: Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods: Challenges for Governments, Corporates and Civil Society at Rio +10 (TERI)

New Delhi, India

March

Global Youth Forum

Copenhagen, Dmk

18th – 22nd March

International Conference on Financing for Development

Monterrey, Mexico

28th Jan – 8th Feb

World Summit on Sustainable Development (10th Session – PrepCom 2)

UNHQ, New York

25th Mar – 5th April

World Summit on Sustainable Development (10th Session – PrepCom 3)

UNHQ, New York

22nd – 24th May

4th UNEP International Children’s Conference on Environment

Victoria, Canada

27th May – 7th June

World Summit on Sustainable Development (10th Session – PrepCom 4 – Ministerial)

Bali, Indonesia

5th June

World Environment Day

-

26 August – 4th Sept

Earth Summit 2002 – WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Jo’burg, South Africa