International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
At the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November 2014, the WFC and UN Women co-hosted the discussion about “Violence against Women: Best Laws and Policies – Learning from the winners of the 2014 Future Policy Award” at the UN Headquarters in New York. Alexandra Wandel, WFC Director, chaired the session that brought together the Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and the President of the IPU’s Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians, Margaret Mensah-Williams, as well as representatives of the FPA winners: Marja Ruotanen (Council of Europe), Michael Paymar (Minnesota House of Representatives), Melissa Scaia (Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs Duluth), Andreas Riecken (Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations) and Nafissatou J Diop (UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on FGM/C).
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