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7-10 july, 2013 • The netherlands The ICPD Beyond 2014 International Conference on Human Rights will take place in The Netherlands from 7-10 July 2013. As part of the UN mandated review of the implementation of the 1994 ICPD Programme of Action, for its follow up beyond 2014, the conference will bring together representatives from government, civil society and international organisations, youth, as well as experts and human rights defenders. While relating the story of the past twenty years, the conference will also look forward, building on key achievements, lessons and good practices and pointing towards strategies that will ensure we deliver on the goals of ICPD.

Hosted by the Government of the Netherlands in partnership with UNFPA , the United Nations Population Fund and OHCHR, the Office of theU nited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the conference will focus on critical human rights issues and challenges with a particular focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights and its intersection with gender equality, as well as population and development issues more broadly, from the perspective of two key overarching human rights dimensions, i.e. inequality and accountability.

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3 Sunday 7 July

17:00 – 20:00 Official Opening & Welcome Reception

Key speakers • Renée Jones-Bos, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former Ambassador for Human Rights, the Netherlands • Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA Executive Director • Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Host: Rob Swartbol, Director-General International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands

Location: Pické

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5 Monday 8 July of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Chair of the Working Group on Prevention of Unsafe Abortion of FIGO 09:00 – 09:20 Introduction Session: The contribution of this conference to the ICPD Beyond 2014 and UN post 2015 review processes. Host: (tbd)

• statement of the UN Secretary-General, BanKi-Moon delivered Location: Pické by UNFPA Executive Director, Babatunde Osotimehin 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee and Tea Break • Presentation on the ICPD Beyond 2014 Review Process by Kwabena Osei-Danquah, Executive Coordinator, ICPD Beyond 10:45 – 11:15 Session 2: Addressing inequalities and discrimination. 2014 Coordination Secretariat, UNFPA Human story: Location: Pické • Nice Nailantei, young indigenous woman working against FGM, to share a testimony emphasizing intersecting forms of inequality 09:20 – 09:45 Opening Keynote Speech - Human Rights, Sexual and Reproduc- and discrimination. tive Health and Development; ICPD at its 20th anniversary: a historical overview and the way ahead. Panelists: • Irene Khan, Director-General of the International Development Speaker: Nafis Sadik, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General Law Organization (IDLO) and his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific • Ana Maria Larrea, Buen Vivir National Planning Secretary, Ecuador (tbc) Location: Pické • Carmen Barroso, IPPF Western Hemisphere / member of iERG • Asma Khader, Women Commissioner,Jordan 09:45 – 10:45 Session 1: Human rights in the ICPD and major human rights • Virginia Bras Gomes, Member of The Committee on Economic, achievements in the last two decades. Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

• Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA Executive Director Chair: Javier Miranda, National Director of Human Rights, • Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ministry of education and Culture, Uruguay (tbc) • Anuradha Gupta, Additional Secretary & Mission Director Location: Pické (NRHM), Government of India • Heisoo Shin, Member of the Committee on Economic, 13:00 – 14:30 lunch Social and Cultural Rights and former CEDAW member • Babu Ram Pant, Member of Youth Coalition for Sexual and 14:30 – 16:00 Session 2 (continued) Parallel group discussions on causes of Reproductive Rights, Nepal inequality and discrimination with a focus on women, young people • Anibal Faúndes, Professor of obstetrics at the State University and different marginalized and excluded groups , according to the

6 7 following three themes : Group 3B: (D) Virisila Buadremo ,Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, (Ch.) Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Director of Social Development, Women’s autonomy and reproductive rights South Africa (tbc) Location: Panorama 7 Group 1A: (D) Myrna Cunningham, former Chair of the permanent forum on indigenous peoples and indigenous leader, (Ch) 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee and Tea Break Riet Groenen, Chief, Ending Violence Against Women, UN Women Location: Pické I 16:30 – 18:00 Session 3: Debriefing, and wrap up of Day 1 Location: Pické Group 1B: (D) Ximena Andion, RESURJ & Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir, (Ch) Marleen Temmerman, director of the Department for Reproductive Health and Research, WHO (tbc) Location: Van Berckel Lounge Breakout sessions

Sexual health and wellbeing and human rights The breakout sessions will be held on both Monday and Tuesday, giving an opportunity for all conference participants to engage actively in informed, inspiring Group 2A: (D) Sandeep Prasad, Executive Director, Action Canada and forward looking discussions. Monday’s breakout session will focus on issues on Population and Development, (Ch) Elizabeth Lule, director of the of equality, diversity and inclusion, where-as Tuesday’s two sessions will focus on Family Planning Programme, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (tbc) the accountability cycle. The sessions will all talk to one of three specific themes, Location: Pické II consistent across the Conference: Women’s autonomy and reproductive rights; Sexual health and wellbeing and human rights; and Gender based discrimination Group 2B: (D) Sunil Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, (Ch.) and violence. Running across the discussions participants will also be asked to focus Gisela Blumenthal, Senior Health Adviser at Ministry of Foreign on lessons learnt, achievements, and good practices moving towards progressive Affairs, Finland (tbc) forward looking strategies that can be scaled up. Location: Panorama 8 In each session a discussant will set the scene and present guiding questions that will structure ensuing conversations. A rapporteur will take full notes of the session. Gender Based Discrimination and Violence Key issues arising from the session will be fed back to all conference participants by the session chair in a debriefing session. They will also be posted on public boards Group 3A: (D) Morissanda Kouyate, Executive Director of the where all conference participants can take in other break out session conversations Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices affecting the and add their comments. As the conference progresses these boards will be Health of Women and Children, (Ch.) Hooria Mashhour, Minister of increasingly populated, informing the concluding sessions on Wednesday morning. Human Rights, Yemen Location: Pické III

8 9 Tuesday 9 July Reproductive Health and Rights, (Ch.) Marcela Huaita Alegre, Vice-Minister for Women and Vulnerable Populations, Peru(tbc) 9:00 – 9:30 Session 4: Review of Day 1 and overview of Day 2 Location: Pické I Location: Pické Group 1B: (D) Vicky Claeys, Regional Director of the IPPF 9:30 – 11:00 Session 5: Making accountability come to life European Network, (Ch.) Eunice Brookman - Amissah, Vice-President IPAS Afrika Voices from the frontline: Location: Van Berckel Lounge • Dawn Cavanagh, Coalition of African Lesbians Sexual health and wellbeing and human rights Panelists: • Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, General Secretary WYWCA Group 2A: (D) Sara Vida Coumans, Youth Coalition for Sexual and • Adrienne Germain, former President of International Women’s Reproductive Rights , (Ch.) Malaka Parker, Parliamentary Secretary, Health Coalition Ministry of Health and Social Transformation, Antigua and Barbuda • Alicia Yamin, Lecturer on Global Health and Director of the Location: Pické II Program on the Health Rights of Women and Children at Harvard University Group 2B: (D) Susan Timberlake, UNAIDS, Chief, Human Rights • Rocio Villanueva, Professor of Law at the Pontificia Universidad and Law Division, (Ch.) Geeta Misra, Executive Director CREA Catolicia del Peru. Former Ombudsperson from Peru Location: Panorama 8 • Winfred Lichuma, Chairperson of the National Gender and Equality Commission, Kenya Gender Based Discrimination and Violence

Chair: Flavia Pansieri, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Group 3A: (D) Vicky Corpuz, Development Consultant and Location: Pické Indigenous Activist, Philippines, (Ch.) (tbc) Location: Pické III 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and Tea Break Group 3B: (D) Françoise Girard, President of the International 11:30-12:45 Session 6: Legal and policy reform, Planning and budgeting, Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), (Ch.) Isanga Nakadama, Programming and service delivery Minister of State for Gender and Culture Affairs, Uganda (tbc) Location: Panorama 7 Women’s autonomy and reproductive rights 12:45 – 14:15 Lunch Group 1A: (D) Marta Szostak, Network Coordinator at ASTRA, Central and Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual and 14:15 – 15:30 Thematic Breakout Sessions (continued): Monitoring and

10 11 evaluation of human rights commitments and efforts, Claiming and Location: Pické III enforcing rights, International cooperation and accountability Group 3B: (D) Stephanie Ortoleva, international human rights lawyer and the President and Founder of Women Enabled, Inc., Women’s autonomy and reproductive rights (Ch.) Alma Viviana Perez,Director of the Presidential Program for Human Rights and IHL, Colombia Group 1A: (D) Luisa Cabal, Vice-President of Programmes, Center Location: Panorama 7 for Reproductive Rights, (Ch.) Heisoo Shin, member of the UN Com- mittee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Republic of Korea 15:30 – 16:15 Session 7: Debriefing, and wrap up of Day 2 Location: Pické I Location: Pické

Group 1B: (D) Stephanie Schlitt, Researcher and Policy Adviser on 16:15 - 16:45 Coffee and Tea break Gender, Amnesty International Secretariat, (Ch.) Serour Gamal, director of the International Islamic Center- Al Azhar University, Egypt 16:45 – 18:30 Session 8: Human Rights Café on emerging issues and Location: Van Berckel Lounge innovative solutions Location: Keizerzaal Sexual health and wellbeing and human rights 19:00 - Dinner hosted by the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Group 2A: (D) Sofia Gruskin, Professor and Director Program on Cooperation of the Netherlands Global Health and Human Rights, University of Southern California, Location: Pické (Ch.) Albachir Macassar, National Director of the Ministry of Justice, Mozambique Location: Pické II Human Rights Café: Emerging Issues and Innovative Solutions: 9 July 16h45 – 18h30. This session offers participants the opportunity to discuss in one or more different Group 2B: (D) Ana Cristina Gonzalez, Independent consultant for groups additional themes and questions that have emerged from the discussions UNFPA and researcher for ECLAC, (Ch.) Angellah Kairuki, Deputy during the previous sessions of conference. The topics will be set in the course of Minister of the Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs, United the first and second day on the basis of ideas and suggestions from participants, Republic of Tanzania organisers and facilitators. Hosts will facilitate the dialogues, ensuring a constructive Location: Panorama 8 and balanced approach. Hosts, rapporteurs and members of each session are invited to prepare a brief written summary of their conversation which will be posted for all Gender Based Discrimination and Violence to read and form one of the inputs into the work of Wednesday morning. The overall topic of the session is: “Emerging Issues and Innovative Solutions: inspired from the Group 3A: (D) Charles Ngwena, Centre for Human Rights at the Conference and in line with the ICPD agenda which motivate further conversation, University of Pretoria, (Ch.) Virginia Bras Gomes, Member of The insight and constructive debate and which will help point the way for the further and Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), Portugal accelerated implementation of the ICPD PoA in the future.”

12 13 Wednesday 10 July 12:30 – 13:00 Session 12: Closing session

9:00 – 9:30 Session 9: Review of Day 2 and overview of Day 3 • Marijke Wijnroks, Ambassador for Sexual and Reproductive Location: Pické Health and Rights, incl. HIV/AIDS of the Netherlands • Kate Gilmore, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy 9:30- 11:00 Session 10: Key SRHR parameters and criteria to be taken up in Executive Director of UNFPA the future post 2015 framework building on the different range of • Flavia Pansieri, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights proposals being developed Location: Pické Keynote presenter: Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; and DAWN 13:00 – 14:30 lunch

Panelists: During lunch Flying kites for Human Rights on the beach • Christopher Wallace, Vice Minister of Planning, Liberia Note: (D)* - Discussant • Paulini Turagabeci, Youth Activist (Ch.)* - Chair • Sivananthi Thanenthiran, ARROW. Concluding speaker: Kitty van der Heijden, Ambassador for Sustainable Development, the Netherlands Language of the conference: The working language of the Conference is English. For all the plenary sessions, simultaneous translation is available in French, Spanish Chair: (tbd) and Arabic. In the breakout sessions, whisper translation support is available for Location: Pické French, Spanish and Arabic speaking participants, as well as for Russian speakers.

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and Tea break

11:30 – 12:30 Session 11: Main issues and conclusions of the conference - Take home messages Location: Pické

14 15 Kites for Human Rights

Flying kites is something we have all either done ourselves or seen children in all our respective countries do. Kites made from old newspapers, plastic bags, kite tails brightly coloured with pieces of fabric, kites flown through slum areas, at the top of hills, across ploughed fields, along beaches… This is the positive and forward energy we are hoping to capture and build on this week in the Netherlands. We’d like you to join us in taking your kite, handed to you at registration, and in just a few words marking on it your, message, vision and hopes for a world where all our human rights, and particularly our sexual and reproductive human rights, are respected, protected and fulfilled. What would this world look like to you? What is your message? After you have written your message on the kite, please return them to the registration desk. During the conference, the kites will be displayed together along the staircase in the hotel for everyone to be able to share their inspirational comments. On Wednesday, during lunch time, we would like to set these kites free into the open air on the beach. Altogether these ‘kites for human rights’ will send a wonderful message. At this time, we welcome you to take a kite (not necessarily your own) and help us send these hopeful messages into the sky. If you haven’t flown a kite before don’t worry. There will be many others to help you.

Let the messages on the ‘kites for human rights’ be an inspiration to all of us.

16 17 Key Note Speakers

Babatunde Osotimehin On 1 January 2011, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, a physician and public health expert, became the fourth Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. He holds the rank of Under- Secretary-General of the United Nations. Before this appointment, Dr. Osotimehin was Nigeria’s Minister of Health. Prior to that, he was Director-General of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS, which coordinates HIV and AIDS work in a country of more than 160 million people. Dr. Osotimehin qualified as a doctor from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1972, and went to the University of Birmingham, England, where he received a doctorate in medicine in 1979. He was appointed Professor at the University of Ibadan in 1980 and headed the Department of Clinical Pathology before being elected Provost of the College of Medicine in 1990. Years later, he served in several organizations, including as Chair of the National Action Committee on AIDS, from 2002 to 2007. Dr. Osotimehin received the Nigerian national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) in December 2005. At UNFPA, he has introduced major reforms to make the Fund more focused and results-oriented as well as intensified efforts to promote the rights and ability of young people to build a better world in the context of sexual and reproductive health.

Navi Pillay The appointment of Navi Pillay as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was approved by the General Assembly on 28 July 2008. She took up the post on 1 September 2008. Her mandate has been renewed for two years beginning on 1 September 2012. Ms. Pillay, a South African national, was the first woman to start a law practice in her home province of Natal in 1967. Over the next few years, she acted as a defense attorney for anti-apartheid Biographies activists, exposing torture, and helping establish key rights for

19 prisoners on Robben Island. Marketing Management (1992). She also worked as a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, In 1995, she founded Ploumen Projecten, an organisation specialising and later was appointed Vice-President of the Council of the in market research and innovation for commercial and non-profit University of Durban Westville. In 1995, after the end of apartheid, clients. In the same year, she also began working as a fundraising Ms. Pillay was appointed a judge on the South African High Court, coordinator for Mama Cash, an international fund supporting wom and in the same year was chosen to be a judge on the International en’s initiatives, where she later took on the leadership role of direc- Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she served a total of eight years, tor of the organisation from 1996 to 2001. From 2001 to 2007, Ms. the last four (1999-2003) as President. She played a critical role in Ploumen worked for the development organisation Cordaid, first the ICTR’s groundbreaking jurisprudence on rape as genocide, as well as head of quality and strategy and later as director of international as on issues of freedom of speech and hate propaganda. In 2003, programmes. She was Chair of the Labour Party (PvdA) from she was appointed as a judge on the International Criminal Court in October 2007 to January 2012. The Hague, where she remained until August 2008. Ms. Ploumen previously held the position of Vice Chair of the Evert In South Africa, as a member of the Women’s National Coalition, Vermeer Foundation, and was a member of the Dutch Labour Party’s she contributed to the inclusion of an equality clause in the coun- South-North Committee, advising on international cooperation. try’s Constitution that prohibits discrimination on grounds of race, She has also been a board member of the feminist organisation religion and sexual orientation. She co-founded Equality Now, an Opzij and Women Inc. and member of the Stop Aids Now! supervisory international women’s rights organization, and has been involved board. with other organizations working on issues relating to children, detainees, victims of torture and of domestic violence, and a range Nafis Sadik of economic, social and cultural rights. Dr. Nafis Sadik, a national of Pakistan, is Special Adviser to the UN Ms. Pillay received a BA and a LLB from Natal University South Secretary-General, with the rank of Under-Secretary-General and Africa. She also holds a Master of Law and a Doctorate of Juridical UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Sadik Science from Harvard University. undertook her medical studies at Dow Medical College and Johns Hopkins University. She was Pakistan’s Director-General of the Lilianne Ploumen Central Family Planning Council; she was responsible for developing, On 5 November 2012, Lilianne Ploumen was appointed Minister for preparing, and evaluating the country’s health and family planning Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Rutte-Asscher programme as part of the nation’s development plan. government. Dr. Sadik joined (UNFPA) in 1971, served as its Executive Director In 1983, while still at university, Ms. Ploumen became a community from 1987-2000, and was the first woman in the UN system to head outreach worker in the Crooswijk area of Rotterdam. Two years one of its major voluntarily funded programmes. Under her leader- later, she joined the Institute of Psychological Market Research ship as Secretary-General of the landmark International Confer- (IPM), working in the statistics department and as a research project ence on Population and Development (ICPD), Cairo, 1994, leader. IPM focuses on research-based consultancy. Ms. Ploumen a groundbreaking change in approach to reproductive health holds a Master’s Degrees in Social History (1988) and Strategic -including empowering women through education and economic

20 21 opportunity- was unanimously agreed upon by the international Medical Center; the Board of the Netherlands Society for Inter- community. Dr Sadik said of the ICPD. national Affairs; the Advisory Board of Tilburg University; and the “When the essential needs of the individual are addressed, those Selection Board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. of larger groups--the family, the community, the nation and indeed She holds a degree (MA) in Russian Studies from the University of the planet are more likely to be kept in the right perspective. One Sussex (UK) and a degree in Russian and English Studies, Politics of the challenges to the Conference is to find the balance between and Economics from the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Apart individual rights and responsibilities on the one hand, and the rights from Dutch and English, Renée Jones-Bos speaks French, and has a and obligations of the wider society on the other.” basic knowledge of German, Russian and Italian. She was born in the Dr. Sadik is well-known for her dynamism and guiding force in the Dutch town of Oud Beijerland in the province of South Holland and fields of maternal and child health, reproductive and sexual health, grew up in Zeist near Utrecht. Renée Jones-Bos and her husband, and advocacy for education in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. She has Dr Richard Huw Jones, have two children. received many international and national awards and was the Lau- reate, in the individual category, of the UN Population Award 2001. Conference chair Currently, Dr. Sadik serves on the Board of Trustees/Directors of several national and international organizations. She is the author Marijke Wijnroks of publications on reproductive health and family, population and Marijke Wijnroks was appointed deputy director for Social Develop- development, women, and gender and development. ment and the Netherlands’ Ambassador for HIV/Aids and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in July 2011. She has worked Renée Jones-Bos at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1998, her previous positions Renée Jones-Bos took up her position as Secretary-General of the being Ambassador for HIV/Aids between 2009 and 2011, and Senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 1 July 2012. From 2008 to 2012 she Adviser on Health and HIV/AIDS. was Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Marijke Wijnroks is a qualified physician and has for many years States of America. been involved in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, and other health Renée Jones-Bos served as the (Deputy) Director-General for issues. Before joining the ministry she worked for the Pan American Regional Policy and Consular Affairs from 2003 to 2008 and as Health Organization in El Salvador (1993-1998), Helen Keller Inter- Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights from 2000 to 2003. national in Bangladesh (1991-1993) and Médecins Sans Frontières in From 1998 to 2000 Renée Jones-Bos was the Head of the Security Southern Sudan and Uganda (1987-1991). Council Task Force of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previous duties within the Ministry included: Deputy Head of Mission at the Dutch Embassy in Prague (Czech Republic); Head of Recruitment and Training; and postings in Washington (USA), Paramaribo (Suriname), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Moscow (USSR). Renée Jones-Bos has held several board positions during her career including on the Supervisory Board of the Leiden University

22 23 Host official opening and welcome reception been a leader in innovation both in advocacy and services, especially for young women. Rob Swartbol Dr. Barroso holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Social Mr. Swartbol is the Director-General for International Cooperation at Psychology. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Population Department the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Previous positions of Cornell University and received numerous academic and public held by Mr. Swartbol include, amongst others, the position of Deputy service awards and honors, including Ford Foundation and Fulbright Director-General for International Cooperation and that of Direc- Scholarships, and most recently was named among the world’s 100 tor of the United Nations and International Financial Institutions most influential leaders for maternal health by Women Deliver. She Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. has published numerous articles in professional journals and popular Additionally, he has been Ambassador to the Royal Netherlands media in Brazil and internationally, and has consulted for numerous Embassy in Bratislava as well as the Foreign Policy and Defense international and intergovernmental agencies. Advisor to the Dutch Prime Minister. Mr. Swartbol received his Master degree in Political Science from the Erasmus University in Dawn Cavanagh Rotterdam. Dawn Cavanagh is a feminist activist from South Africa. She works for the Coalition of African Lesbians which is a membership based Panelists and speakers organisation operating in Sub Saharan Africa. There are two main issues – sexuality and gender and the right to defend human rights Carmen Barroso - on which they engage using advocacy, skills building and research A native of Brazil, Dr. Carmen Barroso was a professor of the as the main programme areas. Dawn has worked for many years sociology faculty at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and a senior on the right to health, women’s rights, sexuality and more recently researcher with the Carlos Chagas Foundation, where she created with some focus on sexual orientation and gender identity and the Brazil’s first and foremost women’s studies center. She was a intersections of women’s rights and HIV and AIDS. She is passionate Presidential appointee to the National Council on Women’s Rights about development work with local activists to generate knowledge and wrote a regular op-ed column in one of the major Brazilian for transformatory change that leads to freedom and autonomy, newspapers. In 1991, Dr. Barroso became the first non-American especially of people on the margins of society. woman to be appointed as director in a major U.S. foundation. She was the Director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Population & Anibal Faúndes Reproductive Health program until 2003. Aníbal Faúndes was born in Chile where he became Full Professor Since 2003, Dr. Barroso has served as the Regiona l Director of in Obstetrics and coordinator of the Women’s Health Program in International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere 1970-72. He was advisor in MCH / Family Planning for the Govern- Region (IPPF/WHR). Through its 40 member associations in the ment of Dominican Republic in 1974-76, Professor of Obstetrics, Americas and the Caribbean, IPPF/WHR provides almost 27 million State University of Campinas, Brazil, since 1976, and President of services annually. As the director of one of the most dynamic regions the Center for Research in Reproductive Health (Cemicamp) 1977- of IPPF and as a member of IPPF global senior team, Dr. Barroso has 2003. Currently he is Emeritus Professor of the State University of

24 25 Campinas and President at Cemicamp. He has published more than Royal Women’s Hospital, Australia. From 1992-93, she was CEO of 440 articles in scientific journals, edited several books including Broadmeadows Community Health Service, then Australia’s largest The Human Drama of Abortion, with Jose Barzelatto, published in Community Health Service based in Melbourne and from 1993-96, Portuguese in 2004, in Spanish in 2005, and in English by Vanderbilt she was manager of the division of community care in the Royal University Press in 2006. Women’s Hospital. In 1996, Ms. Gilmore joined Amnesty Interna- tional Australia as National Director and in 2000, she was appointed Adrienne Germain Executive Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International based Adrienne Germain, President Emerita, International Women’s in London. Health Coalition, has worked for women’s health and human rights for 43 years. Following 14 years with the Ford Foundation, including Maria Virginia Bras Gomes four in Bangladesh as the country representative, she led IWHC’s Maria Virginia Bras Gomes is a member of the UN Committee on work on international health and population policy with the UN Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and rapporteur for the period system, governments and NGOs especially in Africa, Asia and Latin 2013-2014. Senior social policy adviser in the Ministry for Solidarity America. In addition to her sustained support for th e building of and Social Security (Portugal). Faculty member of the Leadership women’s health and rights organizations in low-income countries, Institute in Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in 2011 she is a widely recognized architect of the international move- and 2012. Training in treaty body reporting in a number of States ment for women’s health and human rights, and of the concept of parties to the ICESCR. Member of the Board of Trustees of the sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRRH). Ms. Germain was European Roma Rights Centre; of the European Social Network a pivotal member of US government delegations to The International High-Level Advisory Group on De-institutionalization; of the Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and the Fourth International Board of the Programme for Women’s Economic, World Women’s Conference, shaping both US policy and the final Social and Cultural Rights; of the Board of the UNICEF National intergovernmental agreements. Ms. Germain received the 2012 Committee and of the National Committee for Human Rights. United Nations Population Award in recognition of her lifetime work. She is a member of the editorial board of Reproductive Health Mat- Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda ters and the Advisory Committee of the Women’s Rights Division of Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a human rights lawyer, is World YWCA Human Rights Watch, and served on the external Evaluation Advisory General Secretary since 2007. The World YWCA movement Group for the International Health Partnership Plus (IHP+), among extends across 108 countries reaching 25 million women and girls other professional roles. and its priorities are women’s inter-generational leadership, women’s rights, and movement building and governance, with Kate Gilmore special focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and Ms. Gilmore brings to UNFPA more than 20 years of strategic AIDS, violence against women, peace with justice, and economic leadership experience, working on social issues in her govern- empowerment. Gumbonzvanda worked for over 10 years with the ment and in not-for-profit organizations. From 1986-1992, she was United Nations, as UNIFEM Regional Director, and as UNICEF coordinator and then programme development manager of the human rights officer in Liberia and Zimbabwe. She currently chairs

26 27 the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva and recently Administrative Services officer in 1981. She has an MBA from Australia, served in the UN Commission on Information and Accountability and Public Policy education from the Maxwell School in the US. She on Women and Children’s Health. Gumbonzvanda has a Master’s has received executive education at Stanford Business School and degree in Private Law with specialisation in Constitutional Property Kennedy School of Public Administration at Harvard. With extensive Law from the University of South Africa and completed postgraduate experience in policy, planning and program implementation, she has work on conflict resolution at Uppsala University, Sweden. She serves served on the board of India’s leading business schools- the Indian on various Boards of development organisations including Action Aid Institute of Management. International, CIVICUS and Save the Children UK. She is the founder and chairperson of Rozaria Memorial Trust and active member of Kitty van der Heijden women’s organisations including the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Kitty van der Heijden is the Dutch Ambassador for Sustainable Association. Development and Director of the Department for Climate, Energy, Environment and Water at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She will Anuradha Gupta lead the negotiations on the United Nations summit on sustainable Ms. Anuradha Gupta holds the post of Additional Secretary, the development (‘Rio+20’) for the Netherlands. In her current position second highest bureaucrat position in the country, in the Govern- she is also responsible for development programmes in climate ment of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. She heads change adaptation, renewable energy, integrated water manage- India’s National Rural Health Mission, an ambitious and large public ment, and environment. As well as interdepartmental coordination health program, aimed at improving maternal and child health and of EU environment policy for the Netherlands government and policy improving health systems. development on global public goods issues such as resource scarcity The NRHM is the largest primary health care program being run in any and energy security. Before she took up her current position, she had country. The Government of India launched the health program in a brief stint as the Ambassador for the MDGs in 2009. 2005 to improve India’s health delivery system to provide accessible She is an economist by background and has over the past twenty primary healthcare to the rural poor in remote parts of the country, years held positions in the ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Africa with universal access for women and children. Reducing maternal Department, the Departments for multilateral affairs and humani- and child mortality and the Total Fertility Rate of the country are the tarian aid, as well as in embassies in New Delhi, India and New York key aims of the health mission. (Netherlands mission to the UN). During 2006-2009 she was on a As Mission Director of NRMH, Ms Gupta is the architect of a success- strategic secondment to the UN, was responsible for the UN reform ful maternal and child health scheme- Janani Shishu Suraksha programme (‘One UN’) in Vietnam. Karyakram- that marks a historic shift in eliminating out of pocket health expenses for mothers and children and entitles them to free Asma Khader health services as a matter of right. Asma Khader (Jordan), a lawyer and human rights activist, is Presi- She also led the successful Universal Immunisation Programme dent of Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan (SIGI/J) and Secretary and the Pulse Polio Programme in the country. General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women. She Ms. Gupta joined India’s prestigious civil services as an Indian is former Minister of Culture & Government Spokesperson for the

28 29 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and former President of the Jordanian Ana María Larrea Women’s Union. A member of the Arab Lawyer’s Union, the Arab Ana María Larrea Maldonado is an anthropologist, Master in Local Organization for Human Rights, the Executive Committee of the Development, majoring in social movements. She was President International Commission of Jurists, and the Advisory Committee of the High National Studies Institute, General Undersecretary of the Women’s Division of Human Rights Watch, she has received of Democratization of the State, Undersecretary of Democratic numerous awards and honors for her work. Asma has written and Reform of the State, Substitute congresswoman for the province spoken widely on the topics of women, children’s rights, and human of Pichincha, Director of the Institute of Ecuadorian Studies and rights. She recently served on the UN International Commission of member of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Council Inquiry investigating human rights violations in Libya. of Social Sciences (CLASCO), representing Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. She has advised many Ecuadorian indigenous Irene Khan local governments on issues related to social participation and Irene Khan is Director-General of the International Development local development. Her main publications are about development, Law Organization (IDLO). The first woman to hold this office, she good living, transformation of the state, indigenous groups, local was elected by Member Parties on 17 November 2011 and took up governments, social participation and social movements. She is her position formally on 1 January 2012 for a term of four years. currently the General Undersecretary of Planning for Good Living and An international thought leader on human rights, gender and social Secretary of the National Planning Council, at the National Secretary justice issues, Irene Khan was Secretary General of Amnesty of Planning and Development of Ecuador. As a representative of the International from 2001 - 2009. Prior to that, she worked for the UN Ecuadorian government and the National Secretary of Planning and High Commissioner for Refugees for 21 years at headquarters and Development,(SENPLADES) she chairs the Regional Conference on in various field operations. She was Visiting Professor at the State Population and Development of ECLAC, until August 2013. University of New York Law School (Buffalo) in 2011. Ms. Khan is Chancellor of Salford University (UK), and a member of Winfred Lichuma the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention. She sits on Winfred Lichuma is the current Chairperson of the Kenyan National the boards of several international human rights and development Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC). The NGEC is a Consti- organizations. Ms. Khan received the Sydney Peace Prize in 2006 tutional Commission with the functions that include promoting for her work to end violence against women and girls. Her book, The gender equality and freedom from discrimination in accordance Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights has been translated into with Article 27 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. Among other seven languages. Born in Bangladesh, Irene Khan studied law at the functions of the Commission is to monitor, facilitate and give University of Manchester and Harvard Law School. advisory on the integration of the principles of equality and freedom from discrimination in all national and county policies, laws and administrative regulations in all public and private institutions. Winfred is Lawyer of over 20 years standing. She holds an LLB from the University of Nairobi, an LLM in International Human Rights law from the University of Essex in United Kingdom and a MA in Gender

30 31 and Development from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Previously she has served as a Commissioner at the Kenya National Programme (UNDP) in Yemen (September 2004 – January 2008). Commission on Human Rights where she headed a public inquiry to Ms. Pansieri started her UN career in 1983 with UNDP in China, investigate sexual and reproductive health rights violations in Kenya where she was responsible for the UNV and TOKTEN (Transfer of that culminated in a report released in April 2012 on “Realizing Knowledge Through Expatriate Nationals) programmes, as well Sexual and reproductive Health Rights in Kenya: A myth or reality? as for projects in the energy sector. She continued with UNDP in The report exhibits how National Human Rights Institutions can Bangladesh (1987 – 1990) and Myanmar (1990 – 1993), followed by move to hold the government accountable in realizing the right a posting to Laos as Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs to health including reproductive health. Previously Mrs Lichuma and Crime (UNODC), and thereafter from 1995 to 1998 at UNODC has worked as a legal adviser to the National Aids Control Council. Headquarters in Vienna directing, planning and evaluating activities. She also has worked as a practicing Advocate of the High Court As the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for of Kenya. She began her career as a Magistrate of the High Court Women (UNIFEM) in New York (1998 – 2001), she engaged in of Kenya, a position she held for ten years and served around the promoting women’s economic, social and political participation country, growing up the ranks to Senior Resident Magistrate. and in raising awareness about gender equality issues. Before taking up the Resident Coordinator / Resident Representative position in Nice Nailantei Yemen, she was in charge of the Country Division of the Regional Nice Nailantei Lengete, a 22 year old Maasai girl from Kenya is a true Bureau for Arab States at UNDP, providing guidance and support to agent of change by opening up the discussion in her Maasai com- programme activities in the various countries of the Arab region. munity on Female Genital Mutilation. Ms. Pansieri is an Italian national with a doctoral degree in Nice brings girls together to talk about their bodies and their rights. Philosophy from Milan University, and one in Chinese Language and She realized that to make real progress she had to speak with the Literature from Venice University. She is a fluent speaker of English, boys as well. Nice has been honored for her work with an ‘oringo German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Italian. orok’ – a Maasai leader’s talking and walking stick – and a cultural symbol for leadership. Babu Ram Pant Babu Ram Pant is a young human-rights activist from Nepal working Flavia Pansieri on issues of youth human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, Flavia Pansieri was appointed United Nations Deputy High Commis- migration, sustainable development and youth participation. He sioner for Human Rights on 15 March 2013. has been involved in training, research, and policy-advocacy on In the past 30 years she has held a number of increasingly respon- youth human rights with a focus on sexual and reproductive rights sible positions in a number of UN system agencies and in various issues at national, regional and international levels through various countries and headquarters locations. Most recently, Ms. Pansieri youth and civil society networks. He has significantly worked on a served as the Executive Coordinator of the UN Volunteers (UNV) range of issues related to ICPD and MDG issues in Nepal at local and Programme, from February 2008 to December 2012. Prior to joining national level. In 2012, he was involved in carrying out national and UNV, she served as the United Nations Resident Coordinator and regional consultations with adolescents and young people on their

32 33 experiences and concerns related to ICPD and RIO +20 process, in Heisoo Shin close coordination with civil societies, UN agencies and the govern- Trained as a sociologist, Dr. Heisoo Shin from the Republic of Korea ment. He is a member of Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproduc- has been working for thirty five years in the civil movement, tive rights. especially in the areas of women’s human rights. During the 90’s, as the president of the Korea Women’s Hotline, a national organization Gita Sen with 25 branches working to combat domestic and other forms of Gita Sen is Professor of Public Policy at the Indian Institute of violence against women, Dr. Shin has led the legislation movements Management in Bangalore (IIMB), India, and Adjunct Professor of on sexual violence as well as on domestic violence. Regionally and Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health. internationally, representing the Korean Council for the Women She received her M.A. from the Delhi School of Economics, and her Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, she raised the so-called Ph.D. from Stanford University. ‘comfort women’ issue at the United Nations and other international Widely known for her work on sexual and reproductive health and fora, demanding legal reparation. Dr. Shin also served as a member rights, she is a member of the High Level Task Force for ICPD. She of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against co-chaired the Knowledge Network on Women and Gender Equity Women for 2001-2008, as well as a commissioner of the National of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and is a Human Rights Commission in Korea for 2005-2008. Academically, member of the Lancet Commission on Women and Health. She is she was an associate professor at Hanil University and Presbyterian on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of WHO’s Dept of Theological Seminary for 1993-2000, and a visiting professor at Reproductive Health and Research, and Co-Chair of PAHO’s the Graduate School of NGO Studies at KyungHee University for Technical Advisory Group on Gender Equality and Health. 2001-2006. Currently, she is a visiting professor at the Graduate She was a member of the High Level Expert Group on Universal School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University. She is Health Coverage set up by the Planning Commission of India, also the representative of the Korea Center for United Nations whose report has provided impetus to the ongoing debate on UHC Human Rights Policy(KOCUN), and a member of the UN Committee in India. She is also a member of the Mission Steering Group for the on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. National Rural Health Mission; and of the Governing Board of the National Health Systems Resource Centre. Sivananthi Thanenthiran She is the author and editor of a number of articles and books Siva is currently the Executive Director of the Asian-Pacific including Gender Equity in Health: the Shifting Frontiers of Evi- Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), a regional dence and Action (Routledge, 2010); Engendering International partnership organization which is working across 15 priority Health: The Challenge of Equity (The MIT Press, 2002); Women’s countries in Asia-Pacific, and with 4 regional organisations/ Empowerment and Demographic Processes – Moving Beyond networks across the global south. Cairo (Oxford University Press/IUSSP, 2000); Population Policies Siva holds a First Class Honours degree in English Literature and Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment and Rights (Harvard Centre an MA in Critical and Cultural Theory. Her different career choices for Population and Development Studies, 1994). which included teaching, writing, commercial publishing, commu- nications and working at the UN gave her opportunities to explore

34 35 many work disciplines and form her ideals of working in partnerships Academy and Manager of the Prosecutor´s Crime Observatory. She and respecting diversity. She is the lead conceptualizer of the has also worked for the Ombudsman Office as Deputy of Women´s ARROW’s ‘Reclaiming & Redefining Rights’ which monitored the Rights and Deputy of Human Rights at the Ombudsman Office. progress of SRHR across 5 regions of the Global South and is the lead author of the Asia-Pacific report. In her previous life, she co- Alicia Ely Yamin wrote and edited books on Agenda 21 - ‘Cities, Chaos & Creativity: Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH is a Lecturer on Global Health and A Sourcebook for Communicators,’‘Cities, Citizens & Civilisations: Director of the Program on Health Rights of Women and Children Frequently Asked Questions on Good Urban Governance‘ and at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human ‘Agenda for Action: Action for Better Cities.’ Rights at Harvard University. Her work over the last twenty years has spanned academia and activism, where she has been at the fore- Paulini Turagabeci front of the economic and social rights and health and human rights Paulini Turagabeci was introduced to the Women’s Movement fields. Yamin has published dozens of scholarly articles and various when at 19 she attended a yearlong leadership program called the books relating to health and human rights, in both English and ‘Emerging Leaders Forum’ (ELF) an initiative of the Fiji Women’s Spanish, and has received multiple distinctions in respect of her Rights Movement for 18-25 year old young women. Her interests work on maternal health and sexual and reproductive health and and advocacy revolve around gender responsive budgeting and tax rights, in particular. She frequently writes articles and op-eds about justice, women in politics, young women’s empowerment, SRHR, global development processes, in relation to sexual and reproduc- intergenerational leadership and full and effective youth participa- tive health. She is currently editing, together with Andy Sumner and tion in civil society. Malcolm Langford, The MDGs and Human Rights: Past, Present Paulini sits on the board of the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, as its and Future (Cambridge U Press, forthcoming, September 2013). young women’s rep. She was also newly appointed as an advisory Yamin provided expert input into the UN Secretary General’s Global member of the UN Women Asia Pacific Regional Civil Society Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health (2010), and served on Advisory Group and is the Pacific Advisor for FRIDA, the young the Advisory Panel for the 2011 Partnership for Maternal Newborn feminist fund. She is currently the Young Women’s Project and Child Health Commitments Report as well as the WHO Steering Coordinator for YWCA Fiji, heading a project addressing SRHR and Group relating to Evidence of Impact of Rights-Based Approaches intergenerational Leadership for young women. to Women’s and Children’s Health. She is also a member of the WHO-led initiative on equity in achieving universal health care. Rocio Villanueva Flores Yamin is Chair of the Board of the Center for Economic and Social Rocio Villanueva Flores is currently Professor of Law at the Pontificia Rights (CESR) and was elected to represent CESR on the Executive Universidad Catolica del Peru and Academic Director of Institutional Committee of the Beyond 2015 Campaign, the largest civil society Affairs at the same university. Before, she has served as Vice coalition advocating for an inclusive and pro-equity future develop- Minister of Women Affairs (August 2011-December 2011), Director of ment agenda. the Institute of Human Rights at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (October 2009-July 2011), Director of the Prosecutor

36 37 Discussants Ms. Cabal has pioneered the Center’s international litigation and advocacy efforts, overseeing the international litigation strategy Ximena Andión that has yielded groundbreaking results at the United Nations, Ximena Andión Ibáñez is a mexican activist with more than thirteen regional, and national-level courts, and human rights bodies. She years of experience working in the human rights field, particularly has developed human rights training projects and is co-founder of on women’s rights issues. She has an LLM on International Human the first network of Latin American law professors (RED ALAS) work- Rights Law from Essex University and a Diploma on Human Rights ing to integrate a gender perspective and women’s rights into law and Transitional Justice from Universidad de Chile. She has worked school curricula. She has lectured widely and made presentations for national and international non-governmental organizations. before policy and academic institutions in over 15 countries, and She worked as human rights officer for the UN High Commissioner currently serves as a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University School for Human Rights in Mexico and Guatemala. She was the Interna- of Law. Ms. Cabal has published numerous articles on international tional Advocacy Director at the Center for Reproductive Rights and human rights law and gender justice. Deputy Director of the Mexican non-governmental organization Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE). She is Vicky Claeys currently the Director of the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Mrs. Claeys is the Regional Director of IPPF European Network since Beavuoir a civil society organization based in Mexico. She is founder 2003. From 1981 to 1996 she was the Executive Director of the and member of the International Alliance Realizing Sexual and Belgian-Flemish IPPF Member Association (currently Sensoa). Reproductive Justice (RESURJ) and of the organization EQUIS: Afterwards she served as Liaison Officer for IPPF, and was asked to Justice for Women. She is a Board Member of Action Canada for set up an office in Brussels to improve contacts with the European Population and Development (ACPD Canada), OXFAM Mexico and Union. When in 1999 the European Network Regional Office moved the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Network (ESCR-Net). from London to Brussels, she was appointed as the Advocacy She is a professor on Human Rights at Universidad Iberoamericana Manager. Her work then focused on advocating for sexual and and the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. She has written reproductive rights in European institutions and networking with specialized articles on human rights, particularly on reproductive other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and agencies. rights and gender issues. Sara Vida Coumans Luisa Cabal Sara Vida Coumans has been a youth advocate for Sexual and Luisa Cabal joined the Center for Reproductive Rights in 1998 as a Reproductive Rights since she was 16 years old. She has been a legal adviser and then as Director of the International Legal Program member of CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality from 2005 until 2012 from 2005 through 2012. She now leads the Center’s legal and and a member of the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive advocacy efforts in the United States and across the globe as the Rights since 2009. Sara currently serves as Chair of the Board of Vice President of Programs. During her tenure, Ms. Cabal has been Directors of the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. instrumental in the expansion of the Global Legal Program to offices Within the ICPD review process Sara has been heavily engaged with in Bogota, Colombia; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kathmandu, Nepal. the preparations of the Global Youth Forum, as one of the co-chairs

38 39 of the International Steering Committee. She now serves on the revitalization, Indigenous women’s Rights and climate change and Reference Group to the Human Rights Conference within the same its impact on Indigenous communities. process. Sara’s Bachelors Thesis was titled ‘A Double Stigma: HIV In September 2010, Ms. Cunningham Kain was awarded with an & Sex Work’. She analyzed the work of NGOs in South Africa in the Honorary Doctorate by the National Autonomous University of interests of young women involved in sex work and at risk of HIV Mexico (UNAM), thereby becoming the first Indigenous woman to infection. Her field research was done in collaboration with the receive such recognition from the UNAM. UNFPA Sub-Saharan Regional Office and its partners.S ara is currently studying at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Françoise Girard where she is doing a Masters of Social Policy for Development and Françoise Girard is the President of the International Women’s Health specializing in Children and Youth Studies. Her Masters research Coalition (IWHC). She is a longtime advocate and expert on women’s will analyze the meanings of the minimum age of sex work in The health, human rights, sexuality and HIV and AIDS. Previously, Netherlands and the constructions of childhood in this context. Françoise was the Director of the Public Health Program at Open Society Foundations (OSF), where she was also Regional Director Vicky Corpuz for Central and Eastern Europe and Haiti in the 1990s. From 1999 Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a Philippine Development Consultant to 2003, she was Senior Program Officer for International Policy and Indigenous Activist. She is the founder and Executive Director at IWHC, and thereafter a consultant for IWHC, the International of the Tebtebba Foundaton, an Indigenous Peoples’ International Planned Parenthood Federation and DAWN, a network of women’s Centre for Policy Research and Education, founded in 1996. Ms. rights activists from the global South. She has played a key role in Corpuz was also the founder and Executive Director of the Cordillera advocacy on reproductive health and women’s rights with UN Women’s Education and Resource Center, Inc., a position she held agencies and at UN Conferences such as ICPD+5, Beijing+5, from 1987 until 1995. From 2003 until 2004 Ms. Corpuz was a mem- General Assembly Special Sessions on HIV/AIDS and on Children, ber of the Advisory Panel of the UNDP Human Development Report ICPD+10, and the 2005 World Summit (Millennium Development 2004 on Cultural Liberty and Dviserity. Also, from 2004 until 2007, Goals). Françoise currently serves as Chair of the Advisory she was appointed as member of the Advisory Panel of the 2nd Mil- Committee of the Health and Human Rights Division of Human lenium Development Goals Report of the UN-Economic and Social Rights Watch, and as a member of the advisory board of the journal Council of Asia-Pacific (UN-ESCAP). Ms. Corpuz earned a graduate Q/C/Q (Population Council). She was the Chair of the Leadership degree in Nursing and was enrolled in the Masters of Humanities with Programme Committee of the 2010 International AIDS Conference, a Major in Women’s studies. She has published numerous articles a 20,000+ participant biannual scientific conference. focused largely on human rights and indigenous people. She has contributed many articles to peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Health and Human Rights, International Family Planning Myrna Cunningham Perspectives and Reproductive Health Matters. Her other publica- Ms. Cunningham Kain is President of the Center for Autonomy and tions include Global Implications of U.S. Domestic and International Development of Indigenous Peoples (CADPI), which is an organi- Policies on Sexuality, 2004; “Negotiating Sexual Rights and Sexual zation working in areas of intercultural communication, cultural Orientation at the United Nations,” in SexPolitics: Report from

40 41 the Front Lines, 2007; and “Advocacy for Sexuality and Women’s School of Law. Professor Gruskin is Adjunct Professor of Global Rights: Continuities, Discontinuities and Strategies since ICPD” in Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and an associate Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward, 2009. editor for The American Journal of Public Health, Global Public She has been quoted by BBC Radio, NPR, Washington Post, The Health, and Reproductive Health Matters. She was previously at Guardian (UK), CBC/Radio-Canada, Associated Press, Boston the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and The Nation, among others. and Population, where she was an Associate Professor, Director Françoise holds an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University of the Program on International Health and Human Rights, and and an LL.B. from the Université de Montréal. Co-Director of the Interdepartmental Program on Women, Gender and Health. Her work has been instrumental in the concep- Ana Cristina González tual, methodological, policy and practice development of linking Ana Cristina González Vélez is an MD with a Master´s de Degree is health and human rights, with a focus on HIV/AIDS, sexual and social research in health. From 2002 to 2004 she was the National reproductive health, child and adolescent health, gender-based Director of the Public Health Department of the Ministry of Health violence and health systems. in Colombia, and doctor and social affairs officer in the Gender Affairs Division, ECLAC (2010). She advised UNFPA and the Min- Morissanda Kouyate istry of Social Protection, Colombia, in 2011, for the reform to the Dr. Kouyate is the Executive Director of the Inter-African Commit- health sector. She is an external advisor of the Centro de Estudios tee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and de Estado y Sociedad (Center for State and Society Studies) in Children (IAC) a regional and international non-governmental Argentina. Presently she is an advisor in UNFPA for the Cairo + 20 organization affiliated with the United Nations, the African Process and the Post 2015 Agenda; advisor in ECLAC for the regional Economic Commission and the African Union. He is also a Mem- articulation of the agenda of the Regional Conference on Women in ber fonder and Secretary General of the Guinean branch of IAC Latin America and the Caribbean with the Regional Conference on Organization against Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Population and Development in the field of rights and autonomy of Women and Children in Guinea (CPTAFE). From 2002 to 2011, he women. She is also the coordinator of the analytical compilation of was the Director of Operations of the Inter-African Committee on the norms on sexual and reproductive health (with OES and Dejus- Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children ticia). She is a member of the civil society secretariat towards Cairo (IAC). Dr. Kouyate has a Ph.D in Medicine from the Medical School at + 20 in Latin America. She leads the Medical Group for the Right to the University of Conakry, Guinea. Decide in Colombia. Charles Ngwena Sofia Gruskin Charles Ngwena, LLB, LLM, LLD, Barrister-at-Law, is a Professor Law Sofia Gruskin directs the Program on Global Health & Human Rights in the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. at the USC Institute for Global Health, and holds appointments as He has taught at law schools in the United Kingdom, Swaziland, Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine South Africa, United States and Canada. He is widely published at and as Professor of Law and Preventive Medicine at the Gould the intersection between human rights and health, including repro-

42 43 ductive health. He is also a disability rights specialist. Prof Ngwena Stephanie Schlitt is a co-author and co-editor of Employment Equity Law which was Stephanie Schlitt is a researcher and policy adviser on gender, first published in 2001 by Butterworths and is updated annually. Amnesty International International Secretariat (Lon don, UK). With Professor Rebecca Cook, he is co-editor of Health and human As coordinator of Amnesty International’s movement-wide policy rights (Ashgate, 2007). With Ebenezer Durojaye, he is also co-editor consultation on sexual and reproductive rights between 2004 and of a forthcoming book – Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive 2007 and now gender expert in the Gender, Sexuality and Identity Rights in the African Region through Human Rights (Pretoria Univer- Unit of the International Secretariat, Stephanie Schlitt provides sity Law Press). He is the Convening Editor of the African Yearbook gender policy, methodology and strategy advice to campaigners, on Disability Rights, Section Editor of Developing World Bioethics researchers and strategists across the Amnesty International (AI) and a member of the editorial committee of Constitutional Court movement on a wide range of issues, including sexual and Review. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of African reproductive rights. Stephanie represented AI on the UNFPA NGO Law, Medical Law International, and Stellenbosch Law Review. Advisory Panel and has also represented AI on the Executive Commit- tee of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition Stephanie Ortoleva since 2010. Prior to joining Amnesty International, Stephanie worked Stephanie Ortoleva is a highly recognized international human rights with human rights organizations and institutions in India, Germany and lawyer, author, researcher and consultant on issues of women’s Switzerland. She holds Master degrees in philosophy and international rights, disability rights and the rights of women with disabilities. She relations from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and in human is the Founder and President of Women Enabled, which educates rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science. and advocates for the human rights of all women and girls, with a special focus on women and girls with disabilities, in collaboration Sunil Babu Pant with organizations of women and girls with disabilities worldwide. Sunil Baby Pant is the first openly gay politician in Nepal, and the She has numerous scholarly publications regarding women’s rights, head of the Blue Diamond Society (BDS) – the only gay rights group disability rights, sexual and reproductive rights, access to justice, in Nepal. The NGO works on human rights, sexual health and HIV/ violence against women, conflict and post-conflict situations and AIDS for sexual minorities in Nepal. Sunil also heads an LGBTI- rule of law, and her papers are on the Social Science Research positive travel agency, Pink Mountains, which provides honeymoon Network at http://ssrn.com/author=1875099. Her work also focuses packages for tourists from abroad. Further, Sunil has conducted on human rights programming and training in developing, transition, a study on the reasons, extent and impact of social exclusion of and post-conflict countries, as well as consulting for governments sexual minorities in Nepal, which resulted in a report in 2005. He and international organizations. Previously Ms. Ortoleva served as an has also trained Nepalese media on LGBTI issues over the past 8 attorney and human rights officer at the U.S. Department of State, years, as well as conducted sensitization trainings for police and where she served on U.S. Government Delegations at various inter- security forces in Nepal. Sunil and BDS also offer training to local national multilateral venues regarding disability rights and women’s activists and organizations in order to strengthen their capacity to rights. Ms. Ortoleva received her J.D. from Hofstra University School document human rights abuses and conduct successful advocacy of Law with outstanding academic honors. campaigns.

44 45 Much due to Sunil’s relentless advocacy, the rights of sexual minori- tion, education and research to help ensure that all individuals ties are now understood as one of the national development, social have access to the information, resources and services needed to and political issues in Nepal. In 2007, Sunil, BDS and others filed a make and exercise informed choices in all aspects of their sexual writ petition at the Supreme Court of Nepal, demanding equal rights and reproductive health. He previously served three terms as its and recognition for sexual minorities. On 21 December 2007, the vice-president. In September 2012, Sandeep was appointed as a Court made the historic decision to protect and defend equal rights Member of the High-Level Task Force for the International Con- for sexual minorities. ference on Population and Development which aims to galvanize political support for sexual and reproductive health and rights, Sandeep Prasad and ensure that international development efforts prioritize these Sandeep Prasad B.A. (Hon.), LL.B., is a lawyer and activist based in issues, including within post-2015 development frameworks. The Ottawa, Canada. Since January 2011 he has served as the Executive Task Force is comprised of experienced and eminent leaders and Director of Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD), activists committed to furthering human rights, equality, dignity a human rights organization working within Canada and international- and justice globally in the 21st century. ly on issues of reproductive and sexual rights and health. His resolve to commit his career to these issues solidified 16 years ago, when Marta Szostak he began his post-secondary education and immediately became a Marta Szostak is affiliated with the Federation for Women and student activist working to promote awareness on campus of issues Family Planning in Warsaw on the position of Network Coordinator at faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Sandeep ASTRA, Central and Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual earned his law degree at the University of Ottawa in 2004. Between and Reproductive Health and Rights. 2006 and 2011, Sandeep served as ACPD’s director of International Prior to ASTRA she was affiliated for three years, also on the position Human Rights Advocacy, where he was responsible principally for of Coordinator, with the ASTRA Youth Network which focuses on ACPD’s advocacy activities within the UN human rights system. In this youth SRHR issues in CEE region. Ms. Szostak is especially interested role, Sandeep established himself as a leader in efforts to advance and focused on regional perspective on Sexual and Reproductive sexual and reproductive rights within the work of key UN bodies and Health and Rights. She graduated in Psychology in 2008. mechanisms. His advocacy was instrumental in prompting the UN Human Rights Council to include maternal mortality and morbidity as Susan Blair Timberlake a human rights issue in a landmark 2009 resolution. Susan Timberlake is the Chief of the UNAIDS Human Rights and Law Mr. Prasad’s work to ensure that sexual and reproductive rights Division based in Geneva, Switzerland. She and the Division work issues receive greater attention from the Human Rights Council with governments, civil society and other partners to promote a and its mechanisms – including the universal periodic review (UPR) rights-based and ethical response to the HIV epidemic. Susan has – has included his active participation in the Sexual Rights Initiative, worked for the UN system since 1984 serving in UNHCR, WHO and a small South-North coalition of organizations that Sandeep helps UNAIDS. She has a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Stanford to coordinate. Sandeep currently serves on the board of directors University; a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of of Canadians for Choice, a national charity that provides informa- Law; and an Masters in international law from Cambridge University in England. She can be reached at [email protected]

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Lobby: hotel reception and registration desk Van Herwaarde Lounge: Media Room

Van Berckel Lounge: Breakout session Bar Maritime: Working lounge

Tappenbeck Foyer: Reception area

first floor Keizerzaal: Breakfast and lunch

Picke: Plenary sessions and breakouts

Panorama 8: Panorama 1-5: Breakout session Crew area

Panorama 6: Prayer room

second floor floorplan Panorama 7: Breakout session