Women’s Peace: Applying UNSCR 1325 to Cyprus and the Region Conference

The Gender Advisory Team (GAT) and the PRIO Cyprus Centre cordially invite you to a conference entitled Women’s Peace: Applying UNSCR 1325 to Cyprus and the Region that will take place on 6 December 2012 at Chateau Status in Nicosia's Ledra Palace buffer zone. Gender has been recognized as a critical component of peace-building processes in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 but no significant attempt has yet been made to implement UNSCR 1325 in the peace-building process in Cyprus. This conference highlights concerns around the lack of implementation and invites Cypriot women and men, international experts, and activists from the Middle East and southern Europe to share insights on local concerns and international practice. Download the programme here. Due to limited seating, pre-registration is required. Simultaneous translation into Greek and Turkish will be provided.

Migrants & Equal Treatment

“The World We Want” Global Civil Society Symposium 22-23 November 2012

CYINDEP, the Cyprus Island-wide NGO Development Platform would like to invite you to the Beyond2015 conference in Cyprus “The World We Want” Global Civil Society Symposium focusing on Food Security and Nutrition in the Post-2015 Framework on 22-23 November 2012 in UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia Cyprus. In accordance with the vision of the European Task-Force of the Beyond2015 Campaign, CYINDEP envisions the post-2015 development framework to contribute to a just, equitable and sustainable world in which every person can realise their human rights, fulfil their potential and live free from poverty. CYINDEP envisions the post-2015 framework to be a global framework with global goals and nationally adapted targets according to the common-but-differentiated principle in order to ensure higher legitimacy, ownership and commitment of every stakeholder involved.The symposium will focus specifically on the food security – nutrition dimension of a potential future goal related to human development. It will analyse in detail six key issues related to food security, namely:

1. Nutrition,

2. Sustainable Agriculture;

3. Resilience;

4. Water;

5. Governance;

6. The Role of the Private Sector.

Each of these key issues will be addressed in one Working Group. Three cross-cutting aspects are crucial to be integrated into the formulation of positions and recommendations:

(1) the Human Rights based approach – the symposium is build on the concept of the right to food;

(2) Policy Coherence for Development; and

(3) Sustainable Development with its three dimensions (environmental; economic; and socio-political).

Each Working Group will focus on one of the six key issues and will address all three cross-cutting issues.If you would like to participate please visit the website here to register. . our website on  to register for the conference. Please note that CYINDEP can cover a limited number of travel and accommodation expenses for participants to attend the conference. If you need financial support for your travel and accommodation, please complete the application form attached or alternatively download from our website and send the form to this email address to  latest by 10 November 2012. For more information click here. 

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