FEZANA Supports the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
Call for Participants at the United Nations
The FEZANA UN-NGO Committee is looking for participants to attend the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women Conference at the UN Headquarters in New York from March 12-23, 2018.
This year’s priority theme is, “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls” and the review theme is, “Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (agreed conclusions of the forty-seventh session)”.
For more information on the NGO CSW62 check the NGO CSW Website:
http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw62-2018
Individuals interested in attending the conference, are requested to send their resume and letter of intent by December 15th, 2017. Please send the e-mail to both individuals below:
Behram Pastakia bpastakia@aol.com
Afreed Mistry mistry.afreed@gmail.com
While FEZANA, as an NGO in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council [ECOSOC] and the Department of Public Information (DPI), will facilitate registration to the CSW Conference, the selected participants are expected to make their own financial arrangements regarding visas, tickets, accommodation, food, and transportation in the city. Details about the vision, mission and activities of the United Nations can be accessed at www.un.org.
Regards,
Afreed Mistry
Behram Pastakia
Co-Chairs, FEZANA UN-NGO Committee