Posted 9:37 PM
by Mary
Thursday, February 2, 2006
1:15-2:45 pm
Bahá’í Offices
866 UN Plaza (48th St & 1st Ave)
Suite 120 (1ST Fl)
“In an effort to move beyond a community of nations bound by primarily economic relationships to one with shared responsibilities for one another’s well-being and security, the question of values - the underlying ethical principles shaping worldview and decision-making – must take a central place in deliberations, be articulated and made explicit.” -Search for Values in an Age of Transition
An earnest search for and recognition of common values are needed to establish relationships of understanding and trust required for sustained cooperation.
We will use this document, prepared by the Bahá'í International Community, as a point of discussion, in which we’ll consider the challenges before the United Nations in its 60th year from the perspective of values.
We invite you to read this statement before the meeting and come prepared to share your thoughts and perspectives in an interactive discussion exploring its core questions:
Why have the current systems of governance failed to provide for the security, prosperity and well being of the world’s people?
What responsibilities do nations have towards their neighbors and their citizens?
Is multilateralism a sufficient tool for international cooperation?
What is the role of religion in the public sphere? What is an appropriate role of religion in the public sphere?
What core values or principles can guide relationships between nations to secure a peaceful future?
NGOs & UN Staff Invited
for further information
Carl Murrell 212.803.2531 * valuescaucus@valuescaucus
Posted 8:10 PM
by Mary
Contact: Ana Lita (212) 687-3324 | AnaLita@iheu.org
Top Bioethics, Physicians & Activists at UN Panel
To discuss Women?s Reproductive & Sexual Rights
IHEU - Appignani Center for Bioethics to host panel, Friday, Jan. 27, 2005
Who: IHEU - Appignani Center for Bioethics & the Alden March Bioethics Institute
of Albany, N.Y.
What: UN Bioethics Panel on Women's Rights
Where: 777 UN Plaza, New York City, 12th floor
When: Friday, Jan. 27, 2006, 5 p.m. - 7:15 p.m., 12th floor
Cost: Pay at door: $12 General Public | $6 Students
Contact: 212-687-3324 (tel) | 212-661-4188 (fax) | www.iheu.org/bioethics | RSVP
by e-mail: AnaLita@iheu.org
NEW YORK On Friday, Jan. 27, 2005 a panel of leading bioethicists will
discuss women?s reproductive and sexual rights at the United Nations.
Speakers include:
Judy Norsigian is a founding member of the Boston Women's Health Book
Collective, an educational nonprofit organization committed to women and
health, and a contributor to the 1998 update of Our Bodies, Ourselves. She is
executive director of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Ruth L. Fischbach, PhD, MPE, is professor of Bioethics and director of the
Center for Bioethics at Columbia University. She is a faculty member in the
Department of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons, and also in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health.
Marsha J. Tyson Darling, Ph.D. is professor of History and Interdisciplinary
Studies and Director of the Center for African American & Ethnic Studies at
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. She is a historian who focuses on women of
color, political power, and political equality. She published numerous articles
and a book examining the social construction of race and sex in American
scientific thinking.
Adrian Sângeorzan graduated from the Medical School at the University of Cluj,
Transylvania and worked as a doctor in Romania until 1990 when he immigrated to
the United States. He lives in New York and works as a specialist obstetrician
and gynecologist. His prizewinning, best selling volume of memoirs and fiction,
titled Between Two Worlds ? Tales of a Women's Doctor, is published in
Romanian. He is a full time attending and faculty adviser at Jamaica Hospital,
New York.
James Stacey Taylor is an assistant professor of Philosophy at The College of
New Jersey. His is the editor of Personal Autonomy: New essays (Cambridge
University Press, 2005), and the author of Stakes and Kidneys: Why markets in
human body parts are morally imperative (Ashgate Press, 2005). He will moderate
the panel.
The event, titled "Bioethicists, physicians and feminist activists reconsider
the terms of the debate about women?s reproductive and sexual rights at the
UN," will be held on the second floor of 777 UN Plaza in New York City, from
5:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., 12th floor.
The panel is co-sponsored by the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics and the
Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany, N.Y.
The IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics focuses on raising awareness of
bioethical issues confronting the international community and promotes a
human-centered approach, developing and implementing an international program
for lobbying. The Center is a new initiative of the International Humanist and
Ethical Union, the international umbrella organization for humanist, ethical
culture, rationalist, secularist and free-thought groups. IHEU holds a special
consultative status with the United Nations, a general consultative status with
UNICEF and the Council of Europe as well as operational relations with UNESCO in
Paris.
Posted 8:02 PM
by Mary
The 41st Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child will begin next Monday at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland. The session will take place between 9th and 27th January, and the Committee will sit in two chambers to consider the reports of 16 States parties. Indeed, at its 59th session (2004), the UN General Assembly agreed to the request of the Committee to work simultaneously in two chambers during 2006, in order to increase the working capacity of the Committee and decrease the existing backlog of reports.
Therefore, at the 41st session, the Committee will examine reports from Azerbaijan, Ghana, Hungary, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Trinidad and Tobago. It will also examine reports on the implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (OPSA) for Andorra, Kazakhstan and Morocco, and reports on the implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC) for Andorra, Bangladesh and Switzerland.
Note: the Italian government was scheduled to present its report at the 41st session, but has requested postponement.
Posted 8:01 PM
by Mary
NGO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS of the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
Please join us on Thursday January 5th, 2006, 1:15 – 2:45 PM, in the Conference Room on the 12th Floor, UNICEF House.
II. Report on the joint NGO Committee on Children’s Rights-Kids Meeting Kids Planning Meeting on Wednesday, December 14, in preparation for a Children and Youth Forum Cristina Blanc, Jennifer Galvan, Melba Smith
III. Report on the Steering Committee Meeting on Thursday December 15 Corann Okorodudu, and other Steering Committee Representatives
Statement on Marginalized Children
IV. epresentation of Children’s Issues at Upcoming UN Meetings
· UNICEF Executive Board Meeting
· CSW – Commission on the Status of Women
· Commission on Sustainable Development
· Forum on Indigenous Issues:
· UNAIDS Review of Government Agreements
Feel free to email or call Corann Okorodudu (okorodudu@rowan.edu; 856/848-4961) or Cristina S. Blanc (csblanc@igc.org 718-548 4170) if you would like to suggest items for the agenda
