EGM: prevention of violence against women and girls explained

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The Expert Group Meeting (EGM): prevention of violence against women and girls was convened as part of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women's multi-year programme of work for 2010–2014. The "Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls" forms a priority theme for its fifty-seventh session in 2013 (CSW57). The meeting took place in Bangkok, Thailand, 17–20 September 2012 and was organised by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), in collaboration with the following organisations:

Participants

Experts
NAME ORGANISATION
INFORM, Sri Lanka
Mary Carroll EllsbergInternational Center for Research of Women, USA
Marai LarasiEnding Violence Against Women Coalition, UK
Lori Lynn HeiseTackling the Structural Drivers of HIV (STRIVE), USA
Tatiana MouraPROMUNDO, Brazil
Mallika DuttBreakthrough, India
Edwina KotoisuvaFiji Women's Crisis Centre, Fiji
Lori MichauRaising Voices, Uganda
Dean PeacockSonke Gender Justice, South Africa
Dubravka ŠimonovićMember of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Jean WardIndependent Consultant, Kenya
Fatuma ChegueSchool of Education, Kenyatta University, Kenya
Margareta GrapeUN Office of the World Council of Churches
Yasmeen HassanEquality Now, USA
Henriette JansenIndependent Consultant, Fiji
Hibaaq OsmanED Kamara, N.Africa/M.East
Nandita BhatlaInternational Centre for Research on Women Asia Regional office (ICRW)
Keshan LatchmanUNiTE Global Youth, Trinidad Tobago
Molly MelchingTOSTAN, Senegal
Observers
NAME ORGANISATION
Nanette Braun Social Media and Communications, UN Women
James LangPartners for Prevention (UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women & UNV Regional Joint Programme for Asia and the Pacific)
Emma FuluPartners for Prevention (UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women & UNV Regional Joint Programme for Asia and the Pacific)
Soon-Young YoonUN representative for International Alliance of Women
Carole ShawAsia Pacific Women's Watch
Gail FarngaloGovernment of Liberia
Sofia DohmenSwedish SIDA
Kathryn LockettDfID
UN System
NAME ORGANISATION
Roberta Clarke Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN Women
Nanda KrairikshDirector, ESCAP Social Development Division
Saraswathi MenonDirector, Policy Division, UN Women
Ramanathan BalakrishnanDeputy Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN Women
Kalliopi MingeirouUN Women
Tania FarahUN Women
Shoko IshikawaUN Women, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Meryem AslanUN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women
Aldijana SisicSecretary-General Campaign UNiTE to End Violence Against Women
Clarice Da Silva E PaulaUNICEF
Upala DeviUNFPA
Riet GroenenUNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office
Avni AminaWHO
Suki BeaversUNDP
Cai CaiESCAP
Jori JorgensenESCAP
Heike AlefsenOHCHR
Anna-Karin JatforsUNiTE Campaign, Asia Pacific
Sara De La Pena EspinUN Women, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Nelien HaspelsILO
Claudia BaroniUNODC

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.unwomen.org/en/events/59/expert-group-meeting-prevention-of-violence-against-women-and-girls/ EGM announced