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70. Presentations were made by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Coordinator
of the United Nations Population Fund; Mr. Werner Obermeyer, Executive Director
ad interim of the World Health Organization, New York Office; Dr. Julia Kim, the
Cluster Leader for mainstreaming HIV and health into action on gender equality,
poverty and broader Millennium Development Goals, within the United Nations
Development Programme; Mr. Christopher Benn, Director of External Relations and
Partnerships, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Ms. Mayra
Buvinic, Sector Director of Gender and Development, Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management at the World Bank; Ms. Diane Summers, senior specialist in
public policy with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI
Alliance); and Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human
Rights.
71. The Commission held a dialogue with the panellists, in which the following
delegations participated: the Sudan, Norway (on behalf of the Nordic countries),
Zimbabwe, Greece, Ghana, Chile, the United States, Mali, Canada, China, France,
Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Portugal, Switzerland and Japan.
72.
The observer for the European Union also made a statement.
73. The representative of Global Youth Action Network, a non-governmental
organization, also participated in the dialogue.
74. At its 16th meeting, on 4 March, the Commission took note of the moderator’s
summary of the discussions held by the panel (E/CN.6/2011/CRP.8).
Action taken by the Commission
Agreed conclusions on access and participation of women and girls in education,
training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal
access to full employment and decent work
75. At the 17th meeting, on 14 March, the Commission had before it the agreed
conclusions on access and participation of women and girls in education, training,
science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full
employment and decent work, submitted by the Chair on the basis of informal
consultations, as contained in document E/CN.6/2011/L.6.
76. At the same meeting, the Vice-Chair, Filippo Cinti reported on the informal
consultations held on the text of the draft agreed conclusions.
77. Also at the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft agreed
conclusions, and decided to transmit them to the Economic and Social Council, in
accordance with its resolution 2008/29 of 24 July 2008, as an input to the annual
ministerial review of 2011 (see chap. I, sect. A).
78. After the adoption of the agreed conclusions, statements were made by the
observers for Hungary (on behalf of the European Union) and Venezuela (Bolivarian
Republic of), as well as by the observer for the Holy See.
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