-----Original Message----- From: Julia Tavares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: INSTRAW activities on gender aspects of ageing
Dear Colleagues, As you know, as part of its activities on Gender Aspects of Ageing, INSTRAW has organized an electronic forum on Gender Aspects of Violence and Abuse of Older Persons which will take place on 15-26 April 2002 through a listserv. If you are interested in participating, please register soon so that you may receive the background paper and other materials that will serve to stimulate the discussion before the discussion begins. You may register by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word subscribe on the subject line. You do not need to write anything else on the body of the message. In this way, you will get an automatic reply and welcome letter. In view of the interest that has been shown in the discussion forum on violence and abuse, we are thinking of organizing another discussion forum towards the end of April on the topic of Volunteer/unpaid Work of Older Women, which would be moderated by Nancy Lewis and Jeanne Smith of the NGO SubCommittee on Older Women of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. We would like to know if there would be interest in such a forum on the part of our GAINS network members. If so, please drop a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the GAINSNet expressing your interest. Finally, I would like to announce that the Bulletin Board is now operating and you can enter comments, information, experiences and concerns on the ageing dimension of the 12 critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action. You do not need to register for this. You just go into the webpage http://un-instraw.org/discus/messages/38/38.html and enter your comments. These comments will be synthesized and used by INSTRAW and the NGO Subcommitte on Older Women for the consideration at policy making forums within and outside of the United Nations. We do hope that you will participate in these activities. Your views and experiences will no doubt enrich the discussions and stimulate policy considerations aimed at redressing the invisibility and marginality of older women. Regards, Julia Tavares =========================================================================== This is GainsNet, the mailing list of the UN-INSTRAW-GAINS Network Members. To reply to the GainsNet group, click on "reply all" To reply to an individual, click on "reply" To unsubscribe from GainsNet, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line
