This
year International Women Day 2007, BPW has
an additional thing to celebrate. International
Federation of Business and Professional
Women (BPW International) gained a consultative
status with the United Nations since the
year 1947, so year 2007 marks 60th Anniversary
of our consultative status at the United
Nations! BPW International celebrates this
60th Anniversary in New York during Commission
on Status of Women 51st Session with a dinner
celebration on 2 March 2007 and the BPW
Panel session at the United Nations Head
Quarter on 5 March 2007.
1. BPW International
Dinner's 60th BPW-UN Celebration (2 March
2007)
If
you are among the 230 BPW members from 34
countries who attended Commission on Status
of Women (CSW) 51st Session in New York
, you may already celebrate this 60th Anniversary
with a delicious cake during BPW International
Dinner on Friday 2 March 2007. BPW Moscow
presented Antoinette Ruegg and I with Silver
Medals which was a Peace award from Russia
for BPW International in recognition of
BPW International's work world-wide for
Peace. We also publicize the newly release
"Empowering Women Worldwide: The history
Project Five-O" book, written by Sylvia
G, Perry (our Past International President)
which documented 25 years of BPW International
contribution to women's capacity building
in collaboration with other 4 International
women organizations.
2.
BPW International's Panel Session at the
United Nations on
"Violence Against Women and Girl Child:
Urgent issues and solutions"
(5 March 2007)
On 5 March 2007, BPW International and Ministry
of Foreign Affair of Italy held a Panel
Presentation inside the United Nations Head
Quarter in New York, Conference Room 4.
We have many distinguished speakers including
a Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini
(BPW Italy), Anita Palmeri (BPW Italy),
Talia Carner (Award winning author of Puppet
Child and China Doll - BPW Manhattan, New
York), Beatrice Fett (President of BPW Brazil)
and Dr. Amany Asfour (President of BPW Cairo,
Egypt). We have a room filled with over
200 people in the audience. It was quite
grand! Many issues on violence against women
and girl child was discussed through the
work of Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini to help
over 12,000 children, and the problem of
infanticide in China. The solutions presented
include the promotion on Bill of Right of
Girl Child by BPW Italy, Maria da Penha
Law - the new legislation about violence
against women in Brazil and the ways to
gain financial independent in order for
women to break free from her abusers.
So for this year International Women Day
2007 or other BPW events in 2007, please
take a moment to celebrate this 60th Anniversary
of BPW-United Nations as well.
Warm
regards,
Chonchanok Viravan (Nok)
BPW International President
7 March 2007 |
