DRAFT STATEMENT FOR THE UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN

Dear All,

This is a follow up of an email sent to your earlier concerning the up coming Commission on the status of Women (CSW).

While you were busy collecting data, information and hopefully doing analysis on the tasks assigned to you in the last email, Marge Christie and a group of other women he re, put together this draft statement.

"Submitting a written statement 

NGOs can provide written statements on the thematic issues considered by CSW. ECOSOC Resolution 1996/31 provides details on the conditions regarding the submission and circulation of written statements. The written statement shall be submitted in one of the official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish). In case of NGOs with general consultative status, the statement should not exceed 2,000 words, and in case of NGOs with special consultative status, it should not exceed 1,500 words. Please note that all text, including the names of the organizations in the text will be counted.

For detailed guidelines relating to written statements, please check resolution 1996/31 at http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/

NGOs must submit their statements no later than 10 weeks prior to the start of the session, i.e. for the 52nd session, the deadline for submission was 10 December 2007 . Please keep in mind that the United Nations requires ample time to process these statements as official United Nations documents for the Commission.”

I am therefore sending this out to you for your comments and additions. I have also attached the resolutions from the Anglican TEAM conference. These may give you additional issues to consider for the statement. The other issues may have emerged form your research. Feel Free to raise these as well.

• Download draft_outline.doc
• Download resolution_1325.doc

Please note our deadline is 5^th (not 10^th!) So if I do not read from you by the 5^th of December I shall assume that you have no additions/comments or questions for clarification to make.

Merry Christmas!

Hellen.

Comments

[Marge Christie]

the only changes I would make are to correct the small Roman Numeral in the second paragraph from (iv) to (v) and at the top of page 2 to include Australia as one of the places where there is a woman's desk.

I hope this gets submitted to DAW tomorrow morning December 7) at the latest.

[Florence Wakoko]

Here are a few comments:

In the second paragraph titled: "The Participation of Anglican Women", the sentence starting with "....women and girls are the poor, the oppressed ..." would sound stronger if you quoted some statistics to reinforce the point.

Fourth paragraph 14th line. Quote the year in which the conference was held in the Great Lakes Region to address gende-based violence.

The paragraph titled: 52nd Session of the UNCSW
Second paragraph -- it would be interesting to have a general picture of the proportion of women currently involved in microfinance to support our argument that there is a need to expand these initiatives to benefit more women.

Thanks.