UNESCO Forum on Gender Equality Held on a regular basis, the UNESCO Forum on Gender Equality series is organized by the Division for Gender Equality of the Bureau of Strategic Planning. The seminars focus on the achievements and challenges in the field of gender equality within UNESCO’s five fields of competence. The objective is to raise awareness of the Priority Gender Equality and to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality.

 
Organized by the Division for Gender Equality of the Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP/GE), the initiative is in line with the designation of “Gender Equality” as one of UNESCO’s two global priorities in the new Medium-Term Strategy for 2008-2013.

A summary of the various seminars of the UNESCO Forum for Gender Equality can be found here

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7th Forum on Gender Equality
Beijing: 15 Years After
19 October 2009 - Room IX - 6 pm to 7.30 pm

In collaboration with the Permanent Delegation of the United States of America, the Division for Gender Equality in the Bureau of Strategic Planning is organizing a Round Table within the framework of the “Forum on Gender Equality”. The event will be followed by a Reception.

The Round Table, on the theme “Beijing: 15 Years After”, will explore the progress made in the twelve critical areas of action of the Beijing Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.

The seminar will feature:

- Ambassador Melanne Verveer - US Global Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

- Ambassador Irina Bokova - UNESCO Director-General elect

- Ambassador Shi Shuyun, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the People's Republic of China to UNESCO

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List of previous speakers on the UNESCO Forum on Gender Equality :

• "Justice and Equality : Myths and Stereotypes".
  This 6th Forum was held in the presence of The Honourable Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, former Judge of the Canadian Supreme Court.

Date : 6 November 2008.



• The Status of Women in Turkey in the Last Decade".
  This 5th Forum was held in the presence of H. Exc. Ms. Nimet ÇUBUKÇU, State Minister for Women and Family Affairs of Turkey. The session focused on the Status of Women in Turkey in the Last Decade
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Date : 8 October 2008.


• "Gendered dimensions of Climate Change" -
  with the presence of Ms Yianna Lambrou, Senior Gender Equality, Energy and Climate Change Specialist with the FAO, Mr Patricio Bernal, Assistant Director-General, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and Mr. Badaoui Rouhban, Chief of UNESCO’s Disaster Reduction and Renewable Energy Section.
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The video of the event is available on line.
Date : 19 June 2008.


• "Gender Equality in the UN and Beyond" -
  with the presence of Ms Mayra Buvinic, Sector Director of the Gender and Development Poverty Reduction and Economic Management at the World Bank, and Ms Elizabeth Longworth, Director of the Cabinet of the Director-General at UNESCO.
  The video of the discussion is available online.

Date : 30 January 2008.


• "What Do Bonobos Have to Do with the Millennium Development Goals?" -
  Dr Rae Lesser Blumberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

Date : 7 December 2007


• >"Gender, Culture and HIV in the XXIst Century: Social Triage – Gender and the Response to HIV in Africa" - Professor Vinh-Kim NGUYEN, physician and medical anthropologist, Associate professor in the department of social and preventive medicine, University of Montreal, Canada.

The video of this event is online.
Date : 4 October 2007

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Source	BSP/GE
Author(s)	UNESCO (BSP/GE)