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Representations

AIWEFA has been participating in International and National Conferences, Meetings, Workshops and Consultations. The contributions of members of AIWEFA have been greatly acknowledged. AIWEFA has been utilising these opportunities to represent different sections of the community, at appropriate Fora like:

  • UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Regional and Preparatory Meetings of the CSW, for issues relating to women, and the girl child, at meetings of the UNICEF on issues relating to children.
  • UN Conferences of NGOs where NGOs get special opportunities to share their views on several social, political and economic issues of common interest.
  • Meetings convened by the UN both at New York and other venues on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) etc.
  • Meetings organized by the UN ECOSOC at various venues for UN NGO IRENE (Informal Network).
  • Meetings of the WTO including the Ministerial in Cancun (Mexico) and Hongkong.
  • UN meetings on the Convention of Sustainable Development (CSD), at New York as well as in the Asia Region.
  • Various UN and other Regional meetings on Climate Change.

Most significant amongst these are the 4th UN World Conference on Women at Beijing, China (1995), 44th session of the commission on Status of Women at New York (2000), UN General Assembly on ‘Women 2000 on Gender Equality Development and Peace for the 21st Century’ at New York (2001), 49th session of the Commission on the ‘Status of Women’ at New York (2005).

The attendance at the 27th session of UN General assembly on ‘Child Rights’ at New York (2002) has been significant with further follow up action at the National level.

Attendance at World Summit on ‘Sustainable Development’ at Johannesburg (2002) has been followed by attendance in various regional meetings and 15th, 16th and 17th sessions for the Commission on Sustainable Development held in UN Headquarters at New York in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Other significant occasions have been CONGO General Assembly on ‘Inclusive Global Governance';“Challenge and Opportunities for CONGO in partnership with UN”’ (2003), The 57th UN-DPI (Department of Public Information ) / NGO Conference at New York (2004), ‘High Level Segment Meeting of UN’ at New York (2005), UN-FCC meeting on ‘Climate Change’ at Poznan, Poland (2008).

AIWEFA has been attending the annual meetings organized by the China NGO network for International Exchange (CNIE) successively from 2006 -2009.

At the National Level AIWEFA networks with major organisations like Lady Irwin College, the All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), Indian Child Rights Alliance, Sulabh International, Women’s Watch, Lawyers’ Collective apart from various UN Agencies located in Delhi, and other Bi-lateral Organisations working on various social and economic issues.

AIWEFA takes lead roles in many of these meetings and effectively participates in the critical issues of priority from time to time.