UNFPA and the Harvard School of Public Health are sponsoring a launch of a new manual that provides step-by-step guidance on how to apply a culturally sensitive, gender-responsive, human rights-based approach to programming in each of UNFPA’s core areas of work.
The manual provides practical tools for designing and implementing a human rights-based approach in the contexts of population and development, sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and women’s empowerment, and emergency responses.
The launch will take place from 1:15 to 2:30 pm in Conference Room 8, 760 UN Plaza (Main UN Building)
Agenda:
Opening Remarks: Werner Haug, Director, Technical Division, UNFPA
The conceptualization of the manual : Aminata Toure, Chief of the Gender, Culture and Human Rights Branch, Technical Division, and Sofia Gruskin, Associate Professor in Health and Human Rights, Director, Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
The contributions of the Manual to Reproductive Rights: Luisa Cabal, Director of the International Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights
The added value for the Human Rights-based Approach: Lee Waldorf, Human Rights Adviser, UN Women
Please contact Thu Cao (cao@unfpa.org) for a UN Grounds Pass
