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SARAJEVO, November 4 (FENA) - The UNFPA Global Grantee Convention of the Trust Fund for combating violence against women will open today in Sarajevo.
The UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is on an official visit to BiH to mark the opening of the Global Grantee Convention of the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women Fund, which will be held from November 4-7 in Sarajevo, and will also mark the start of the global campaign "16 Days of Activism against violence against women, which is taking place around the world and seeks to mobilize the public to combat gender-based violence.
This year's "16 Days of Activism" global campaign will focus on the topic of rape and that is why the visit to the Safe House in Sarajevo has been a part of this campaign.
The opening session of the Convention will take place in the Building of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the participation of the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željko Komšić, as well as the Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and feature prominent civil society representatives including Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University and Hakima Abbas, Co-Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). Aldijana Šišić, Chief of the UN Trust Fund, will welcome all participants to the convention in the opening session.
During this unprecedented gathering, participant discussions will focus on topics including current issues in ending violence against women programming, managing evidence and knowledge, building effective institutions, and ensuring sustainable funding to organizations working to create change and support survivors around the world. Participants will examine these specific aspects of global work to end violence against women and girls implemented through three generations of active projects funded by the UN Trust Fund.
The convention takes place in the context of important global convening taking place in 2020; 25 years since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, 20 years since the landmark United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security, and the development of the UN Trust Fund’s new strategy for 2021-2025, stated the UN Women.
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