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Event Space, Technology and Procedure at the UN
Event Space and Technology
Each room contains:
Note: The UN does not provide projectors or computers for PowerPoint presentations in this room.
NO FOOD OR DRINK IS ALLOWED IN UN MEETING ROOMS.
Procedures
Before your event:
1. Please enter through the Visitor’s Entrance of the UN building at 46th Street and First Ave.
2. Go to the NGO CSW Forum information desk (in the lobby of the UN main building) 15 minutes before your event starts. An NGO CSW Forum representative will provide an event tag for you to enter the UN building. You must have your grounds pass as well.
Speakers for event-passes
If your speakers do not have ECOSOC grounds passes and are not pre-registered for CSW, they can obtain event tags. Please send their names to Lyna Castillo-Javier (Lyna CJ <lyna@ngocsw.org>) before February 20th. They should pick up their event tags at the NGO CSW Forum desk inside the Visitor’s entrance after security.
During your event:
1. Please make sure people do not sit on the tables or the floor in the meeting room.
2. Please do not use tape to put anything on the walls.
3. Please ensure that there is no food or drink.
After your event:
1. Return any event tags o the NGO CSW Forum representative as you exit the room
2. Please clean up all papers and trash so the room is ready for the next event
3. Please end on time so that the next group can get in 15 minutes before their event to set up.
4. Participants MUST return the tags to the NGO CSW Forum representative after the event
THANK YOU!
MICHELLE BACHELET TO SPEAK AT NGO CSW FORUM CONSULTATION DAY
UN Women Executive Director to Discuss Economic Empowerment of Rural Women
February 5, 2012 – New York, NY – The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY (NGO/CSW/NY), one of three women’s committees of CoNGO that advocates for women’s rights and gender equality, today announced that Michelle Bachelet, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UN Women, will address attendees at this year’s NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day (26 February). She will discuss progress made by the UN to achieve gender equality as well as the economic empowerment of rural women, the priority theme of the UN Commission on the Status of Women for 2012. Ms. Bachelet, a long time champion of women’s rights, is the Under-Secretary- General and Executive Director of UN Women. Previously, she served as President of Chile (2006-2010), and held ministerial portfolios in the Chilean Government as Minister of Defense and Minister of Health.
Other events at the NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day include a performance by children from the National Dance Institute, a non-profit education program founded by Jacques d’Amboise. Giving the keynote address will be the NGO/CSW/NY’s 2012 Woman of Distinction, Mirna Cunningham Kain from Nicaragua, Chair of the UN Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues. The program also includes a Regional Perspectives Panel moderated by Ilona Graenitz, Chair of the NGO/CSW/Vienna, and a Rural Women Panel, moderated by Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, Chair of NGO/CSW/Geneva and Secretary-General of the worldwide YWCA.
During the afternoon, attendees will have their choice of three sessions in which to participate: Orientation for new participants to the CSW, Advocacy training or Training for Rural Women Leaders Speak-out. A draft program for the full NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day is available online.
The NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day will be held on Sunday, 26 February 2012 from 9am – 5pm at the Salvation Army (120 West 14th Street, New York NY). Registration for the NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day remains open until 17 February 2012.
About the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY
The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY (NGO/CSW/NY) is one of three women’s committees of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the UN (CoNGO). Under CoNGO’s umbrella, the NGO/CSW committees helped plan the NGO Forums at the UN World conferences in Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi and Beijing. The NGO/CSW/NY works in partnership with other CoNGO committees to organize the NGO CSW Forum that includes Consultation Day in preparation for the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings. It also facilitates interaction between NGOs and the UN on a wide range of issues including peace and security/violence against women, women’s health, migrant and refugee women, climate change and the environment. The NGO/CSW/NY represents approximately 80 organizations and is a volunteer-based, non-profit NGO funded largely by individual contributions.
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The NGO Committee on the Status of Women/New York
Welcomes young women and men,
boys and girls and university students
To NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day
in preparation for the UN Commission on the Status of Women meeting
26 February 2012
9 – 5 pm
The Salvation Army
(120 West 14th Street, New York, NY)
- Learn about the international women’s movement and the United Nations
- Participate in advocacy training for youth
- Share your ideas on international issues such as rural women and economic empowerment, human rights, peace and security, and health
Program highlights:
• Michelle Bachelet, UN Undersecretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
• Mirna Cunningham Kain, Chair, Indigenous Peoples Forum and NGO CSW Forum Woman of Distinction Awardee
• Bineta Diop, Peace advocate and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world (invited)
Register online: www.ngocsw.org.
The fee is $80 (includes lunch)
