3. Agenda
Thursday, December 7 | ||
| 6:30 – 9:00 | Participant Dinner: Meet in hotel lobby at 6:30 pm | |
Friday, December 8 | ||
| Session One: | What Is This Meeting About? Goals, Agenda, and Logistics | |
| 9:00-10:00 | ||
| Session Two: | Who are We? A Feminist Round | |
| 10:00-1:00 | Participants will introduce themselves and their work on women’s economic inequality and/or women’s economic, social and cultural rights/issues and, where relevant, the major obstacles and barriers in their work. | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch Break: Lunch is served at Stonebreakers restaurant in the hotel | |
| Session Three Part 1: | What Does Equality for Women Mean? | |
| 2:00-3:15 | This session will explore different ideas about the meaning of women’s equality in literature and practice in the field of human rights and women’s rights. There will be a 15-minute presentation and participants will be encouraged to discuss understandings of equality in different countries/regions, and how ideas of equality are related to economic, social and cultural rights. | |
| 3:15-3:30 | Break | |
| Session Three, Part 2: | Equality in South Africa | |
| 3:30-5:00 | This session will focus on South Africa’s new equality rights legislation. | |
| Session Three Part 3: | What Have We Learned? | |
| 5:00-5:30 | Participants will be asked to consolidate some of the key principles of women’s equality in theory and practice as discussed throughout the day. | |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner: Meet in Lobby of hotel at 7:00 pm | |
Saturday, December 9 | ||
| Session Four Part 1: | Women’s Conditions of Social and Economic Inequality | |
| 9:30-10:45 | This session will focus on women’s conditions of social and economic inequality and the impact of macro economic policies on women in different contexts. Participants will be encouraged to discuss conditions of women as they relate to social and economic rights. | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | |
| Session Four, Part 1: Continues | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | ||
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch Break: Lunch is served at Stonebreakers restaurant in the hotel | |
| Session Four, Part 2: | Transforming Social and Economic Rights | |
| 1:00-2:45 | The central question for this session is: how do women’s conditions and knowledge inform and change how we interpret and practice economic, social, and cultural rights? This session will include presentations on specific rights such as housing and food, for which background papers will be provided. Participants will be encouraged to discuss how rights should be interpreted to take women’s conditions into account. | |
| 2:45-3:00 | Break | |
| Session Five: | Working on the General Comment | |
| 3:00-5:00 | This session focuses on the draft General Comment on Women and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Participants will be asked to provide comments and suggestions for improvement on the content of the draft General Comment. | |
| 6:00 | Dinner: Meet in Lobby of hotel at 6:00 pm | |
Sunday, December 10 | ||
| 7:30 | Breakfast On Table Mountain for those who so wish. Meet in hotel Lobby at 7:30 | |
| Session Six: | What Are The Barriers In Our Work and What | |
| 10:30-1:00 | Strategies Are We Using to Promote Women’s Economic Equality? | |
| After identifying some of the key barriers in the promotion and protection of women’s economic, social and cultural rights, this session will focus on a discussion of the solutions/strategies that participants have used to address these barriers and to promote/enforce women’s economic, social and cultural rights. | ||
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch: Lunch is served at Stonebreakers restaurant in the hotel | |
| Session Seven: | Planning Next Steps | |
| 2:00-4:00 | This session will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss future activities and potential collaborations with a view to developing an action plan for 2001. | |
| 4:00 | Possible afternoon trip. | |
| 7:30 | Dinner: Meet in hotel Lobby at 7:30 p.m. | |
