Subject: [fem-women2000 103] European WomenAction 2000 (fwd)
From: lalamaziwa <lalamaziwa@jca.apc.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 04:29:14 +0900
Seq: 103
---------------- Original message follows ---------------- From: Lin Pugh <pugh@IIAV.NL> To: KNOWHOWCONF@NIC.SURFNET.NL Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:32:41 +0200 Subject: European WomenAction 2000 -- I would like to inform you of the following: Join us on the web ! European Women in Action for 2000 The European WomenAction 2000 website will go live on November 17th, 1999. It will provide European women's organizations with a platform for strategizing around the Beijing Platform of Action review process. The website is hosted and managed by the International Archives of the Women's Movement (IIAV). Partners in the project are the Karat Coalition, a network of women's NGOs in Eastern and Central Europe, the European Women's Lobby (EU countries), Les Peneopes (France), US Women Connect (USA), FAFIA (Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action) and le Centre de documentation sur l'education des adultes et la condition feminine CDEACF (Canada). In June 2000, the United Nations will review the agreements made at the 4th World Conference on Women held in 1995 in Beijing. This is the so-called Beijing + 5 review. The Platform for Action identified 12 Critical Areas of Concern for women's advancement and empowerment: Poverty, Education & Training, Health, Violence, Armed Conflict, Economy, Decision Making, Institutional Mechanisms, Human Rights, Media and Environment. The European WomenAction 2000 website is a space to collaboratively prepare and strategize for reviewing the results of agreements made in the Beijing Platform for Action, to read the alternative national reports prepared by NGOs in Europe, to hold critical discussions, to find other organizations with whom to lobby in the months leading up to June 2000 and to search for relevant literature. Through a specially designed IIAV database of websites you can link in to the national Beijing + 5 platform in your own country. Use the website in the most effective way for your organisation: its value is your contribution to it. European WomenAction 2000 is part of a global network, initiated by women's information and communication organisations in March this year, to create a strong exchange of strategies and ideas in the months leading up to the UN review meeting in New York, in June 2000. The Global WomenAction 2000 network now has websites in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and soon in Latin America. The focus of the Global WomenAction 2000 website (www.womenaction.org) will be on advocating women's greater access to information technologies (Section J of the Beijing platform for Action). All discussion groups, on all critical areas of concern and other subjects, on each regional website can be accessed through the global site. It too will 'go live' on November 17th. Les Peneopes will broadcast a live interactive television programme at 20.30 on 17 November as part of the European WomenAction 2000 launch. Participate in the launch through the chatroom of the website at http://www.canalweb.net/vers/cyberfemmes.asp. You can discuss issues in the critical areas of the Platform for Action, you can post information. =================================================================== Write to pugh@iiav.nl ; http://www.iiav.nl/european-womenaction-2000 Lin Pugh, IIAV, Obiplein 4, 1094 RB Amsterdam tel: +31-20-6651318