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34. Statements were also made by the following representatives of non-governmental
organizations: Rounaq Jahan (Bangladesh), Carmen Barroso (Brazil), Vina Nadjibulla
(Afghanistan), Wanda Nowicka (Poland) and Mona Khalae (Lebanon).
35. At the resumed 20th meeting, on 22 March, the Commission decided to
include the Chairpersons’ summary of the high-level round table in the report of the
Commission (see annex I).
B.
Panel discussions on agenda item 3 (c)
Synergies between national-level implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
36. At its 7th meeting, on 3 March, the Commission held a panel discussion and
dialogue on synergies between national-level implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women.
37. Presentations were made by the following panellists: Louise Arbour, United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Rosario Manalo, Chairperson,
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; Melanie S. Griffin,
Minister of Social Services and Community Development of the Commonwealth of
the Bahamas; Valerie Knowles (Bahamas), Programme Director of the Health and
Family Life Resource Centre of the Bahamas Family Planning Association;
Dubravka Šimonović, Head of the Human Rights Department, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Croatia; and Sanja Sarnavka (Croatia), President of the
Women’s Health Rights Group, “Be active, Be emancipated”.
38. The Commission then held a dialogue with the panellists, in which the
following delegations participated: Algeria, Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Colombia,
Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, El Salvador, Guinea, Indonesia, Morocco, Norway, Philippines,
Republic of Korea, Senegal, Switzerland and Tunisia.
39. The representatives of the following non-governmental organizations in
consultative status with the Economic and Social Council also participated in the
dialogue: Japanese Association of International Women’s Rights (on behalf of the
Asian Pacific Caucus); Women’s Human Rights International Association (on behalf
of a coalition of non-governmental organizations); and Equality Now (on behalf of
18 non-governmental organizations).
40. Also at its resumed 20th meeting, the Commission decided to include the
moderator’s summary of the panel discussion in the report of the Commission (see
annex II).
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