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ACTION PLAN of IAW’s Human Rights Representatives at UN Geneva
We are willing to further deepen our commitment to promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls globally through our work at the UN in Geneva.
Against the background that we want to take our work on a new level, that we want to focus our work even more on the needs of the member organizations of the IAW, that we want to distribute the tasks in the team and that we want to strengthen our cooperation and team spirit, we have developed and adopted the following action plan:
Our main goal
«We monitor and report to IAW on human rights activities at UN Geneva. We provide advocacy.»
Our target groups
are both IAW’s member organizations and individual women and girls in all their diversity.
We will monitor and report on the following entities:
Human Rights Council, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Human Rights Committee, NGO CSW UN Geneva
When distributing the work within the team, we respect personal resources.
We have established the following working methods
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Every representative makes a selection regarding the information she will share in the report.
- In making this selection, we have our member organizations in mind on the one hand and what we personally consider important on the other.
- The on-site presence at UN Geneva is crucial because our mission is tied to the UN location in Geneva. Some events can be followed online. Some information can be gathered online. However, being present in person at meetings in Geneva is part of our working method.
- Meetings of IAW representatives at the UN in Geneva are usually held twice a year on site.
- The reports are sent to the main representative. They form the basis for the annual report to the IAW.
We are willing to further deepen our commitment to promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls globally through our work at the UN in Geneva.
IAW’s Human Rights Team at UN Geneva (updated January 2023):
Main Representative: Dr Sibylle von Heydebrand
Additional Representatives: LL.M., Mlaw Derya Akinci Briand, Dr Laoura Alipranti, Sanja Jeraj, Dr. Ernestine Ngo Melha
Ex officio Representatives: Alison Brown (President) and Miranda Ruzario (Secretary General)