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The NCW Foreign Affairs committee
maintains a watching brief on international developments of concern to
women and keeps NCW members informed of work to improve conditions for
women and children worldwide.
The Foreign Affairs
Committee held a Seminar
in March 2007
at
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
on -
Indigenous
peoples:
are they on the brink of extinction?
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The group supports the vital work of the United Nations and UNIFEM
and Juliet Coleman, the President of UNIFEM UK came to speak to the
committee
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The
International Council of Women
NCW has
an international dimension through our active membership of the
International Council of Women (ICW), to which we affiliated in 1897.
ICW has over 70 member countries worldwide, listed below, ranging from
the
developed countries of the west to some of the least developed
societies in the world.
It has long-standing consultative status with
the United Nations. NCW in Britain was accorded UN special
consultative status in 2000, and participates in annual meetings of the
UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. Indira Patel OBE
is the NCW representative on this committee.
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The European Centre of the International
Council of Women (ECICW)
The European Centre has members from twenty countries, both within and
beyond the European Union. It meets twice yearly in different
countries to discuss problems of common interest and to extend contacts,
particularly with women from the former East European countries and
others joining the European Union.
The next meeting will be in April 2008,
hosted by NCWGB and held in the Thames Valley region.
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NCWGB delegation to the ICW Triennial Conference in Kiev with Anamah Tan,
ICW President
A Chinese delegation at Danbury Street
The International Council of Women Great Britain Committee (ICWGB)
The ICWGB Committee, which usually meets three times a
year in London, works within
NCW to coordinate links with ICW, and to
direct NCW international policy within the international agenda for improvements in women's lives through the United Nations
and the European Centre of the International Council of Women
(ECICW)
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