Wellesley Centers for Women 

Wellesley Centers for Women

Wellesley Centers for Women

Executive Report on the Asian Regional Conference—Women and Children: The Human Rights Relationship, Decemb...

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• Women and Children: The Human Rights Relationship

UNICEF and the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) convened a seminal Asian regional conference, Women and Children: the Human Rights Relationship, December 9-10, 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference was conceptualized by UNICEF’s Global Policy Section as part of a major initiative on human rights-based approaches to women’s and children’s rights. Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, senior advisor for international programs at WCW, led the organizing of this innovative and dynamic conference that had as its aims and goals an exciting agenda for change on the intersections of women’s and children’s rights.