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To Ms. Verveer from Hope Miller re: Kosovo Benefit (partial) (1
07/26/99
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First Lady's Office
Eric Massey (Subject Files)
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PHONE NO. :
Jul. 26 1999 12:11PM P2
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Tel: 212-808-4988
Fax: 212-972-0164
HONORARY CO-CHAIRS
The Hon Lindy Boggs
Sharon Capeling-Alakia
The Hon, Nancy Kassebaum Baker
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The Hon. Barbara A. Mikulski
The Hon. Charlos H. Percy
Margarot C. Shyder
July 26,1999
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Paul C. Wamke
UNIFEM GOODWILL AMBASSADORS
Dear Mr. Verveer:
Julie Androws
Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Executive Committee
Many thanks for your
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President
Mal Johnson
Susan Rubin
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Catherine D. White
Vice Presidente
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Carol Capps
Mary P. Haney
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Carol Poteal-Buchanan
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Gwendolyn C. Baker
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Annie A, Blackwell
Ellon $. Blalock
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PHONE NO. :
Sep. 24 1999 12:52PM P1
MEN
UNIFED
MCC
United States Committee for UNIFEM
United Nations Development Fund for Women
777 United Nations Plaza
7th Floor
New York, New York 10017
Tel: 212-808-4988
Fax: 212-972-0164
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UNIFEM supports the self-help initiative of women in developing countries, thus making their lives more productive.
By increasing their economic power, UNIFEM helps to improve the lives of women, their families, and their communities.
When UNIFEM helps 250,000 women, 1,000,000 children benefit.
FOR THE WOMEN OF KOSOVA
A SPECIAL BENEFIT
THE UNITED STATES COMMITTEE FOR UNIFEM
PRESIDENT
Sheryl J. Swed
VICE PRESIDENTS
Neale S. Godfrey
Brenda Kagle
Wendy A. Trager
SECRETARY
TREASURER
Carol M. Poteat-Buchanan
Catherine A. Wood
THE METROPOLITAN NEW YORK CHAPTER
PRESIDENT
Ruth E. Zeller
VICE PRESIDENTS
Alison Fay
Toney Gordon
Janet T. Stovin
SECRETARY
TREASURER
Mary C. Wolf
Ruth B. Cowan, Ph.D.
BENEFIT COMMITTEE
Patricia Altshuler
Monique Golby
Eurydice Kelley
Margaret Sokol
Nina Azer
Toney Gurdon
Robbyn Kilbane-McFadden
B. Max Stamper, PH.D.
Joan Brew
Jacqueline Greenfield
Jean-Paul Lausell
Janet T. Stovin
Debbie Cregledy
Nadine Hack
Mildred Robbins Leet
Ashley T. Suhler
Jessica 1). Ehrlich
Janice P. Haggerty
Norma U. Levitt
Junnko Tozaki
Alison Fay
Brenda Kngle
Nora London
Sidney Willner
Delina Fico
Mary T Keane
Horst and Susie Schneider
Mary C. Wolf
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PHONE NO. :
Sep. 24 1999 12:53PM P3
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Annan
HONORARY BENEFIT COMMITTEE
H.E. Dr. Gerard Pfanzelter and Mrs. Pfanzelter
Ambassador of Austria 10 the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Maurice Moore and Mrs. Moore
Ambassador of the Commonwealch of the Bahamas to the United Nations
H.E. M. Ion Gorita and Mme. Gorita
Ambassador of Romania to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Asda Jayanama and Mrs. Jayanama
Ambassador of Thailand to the United Nations
H.E. Prof. Mata Mulumba Semakula Kiwanuka and Mrs. Kiwanuka
Ambassador of the Republic of Uganda to the Uniced Nations
Ms. Julie Andrews
UNIFEM Goodrvill Ambassador
BENEFACTORS
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation, Inc.
Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group
(list incomplete)
PATRONS
Marcal Paper Mills, Inc.
Mildred Robbins Leet
Dr. Arthur and Hope S. Miller
(list incomplete)
UNIFEM's programme for Kosova women refugees will support and strengthen the capacity of these women to rebuild their
lives and those of their families and communities. The women of Kosova will thus bc enabled to go beyond the cycle of violence
and play a leadership role in shaping a peaceful and economically secure future based on tolerance for diversity and respect for
women's and men's human rights.
WHEN UNIFEM HELPS 250,000 WOMEN, 1,000,000 CHILDREN BENEFIT.
THE UNITED STATES COMMITTEE FOR UNIFEM
(The United Nations Development Fund for Women)
AND
THE METROPOLITAN NEW YORK CHAPTER
cordially invite you to attend
A SPECIAL BENEFIT FOR THE WOMEN OF KOSOVA
CO-CHAIRPERSONS
Lidia Basrianich of Felidia
Angelo Vivolo of Vivolo
Hope S. Miller
Catherine D. White
Margaret G. MacBain
(Immediate Past
Special Video Greeting on Kosova by
UNIFEM is NEW
Misident of The
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
4. s Com. He UNIFEM)
using The spelling
Stars and Celebrities
Kosovo
Thursday, October 7, 1999
Delegates' Dining Room, United Nations
Champagne Reception: 6:30 p.m.
Gourmer Chefs Dinner: 7:30 p.m. 10:00 p.m.
Black Tic or National Dress
All tickets will be held at the door,
RSVP Enclosed Reply Card
United Nations Visitors' Entrance
Space Limited
First Avenue and 46th Street
PHOTO IDENTIFICATION AND INVITATION ESSENTIAL FOR ENTRY.
FROM : NCWUS
PHONE NO. :
Sep. 24 1999 12:54PM P4
THE BEST GOURMET CHEFS
WILL PERSONALLY PREPARE AND SERVE
THEIR SIGNATURE DISHES WITH
ACCOMPANYING WINES
LIDIA MATTICCHIO BASTIANICH & BETH COLLINS, FELIDIA
SERGIO BITICI, TOSCANA
SEGUNDO CALLE, BRUNO
GINA DIPALMA, BABBO
ODETTE FADA, SAN DOMENICO
CODY HOGAN, LIDIA'S KANSAS CITY
SARAH JENKINS, I COPPI
MAURO MAFRICI, I TRULLI
CHARLIE PALMER, AURHOLE
FRANCOIS PAYARD, PAYARD PATISSERIE
MICHAEL ROMANO, UNION SQUARE CAFE
ANNE ROSENZWEIG, THE LOBSTER CLUB
KATY SPARKS, QUILTY'S
ANGELO VIVOLO, VIVOLO
plus
LOU PIUGGI, UNITED NATIONS DELEGATES DINING ROOM
(LIST IN FORMATION)
FROM : NCWUS
PHONE NO. :
Sep. 24 1999 12:54PM P5
Hope A. Suiller
United States Committee For UNIFEM
777 United Nations Plaza - 7th Floor
New York, NY 10017
A SPECIAL BENEFIT
FOR THE WOMEN OF KOSOVA
THE UNITED STATES COMMITTEE FOR UNIFEM
THE METROPOLITAN NEW YORK CHAPTER
Champagne Reception and Dinner
United Nations Delegates Dining Room
First Avenue and 46th Street
Thursday October 7, 1999
Please make checks payable to UNIFEM/USA/TIY. Any amount over $100.00 per ticket is tax-deductible.
Tickets - $325 each
Sponsor - $750 each
Patron-$5,000** table
Supporter - $500 each
Angel - $1,000* each
Benefactor - $10,000** table
"Names will be listed in the program. Plus special pre-events and publicity for each category.
1 cannot attend but enclose a completely tax-deducrible contribution of $
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KINDLY LIST THE NAMES OF YOUR GUESTS ON THE REVERSE SIDE
AND/OR THOSE WITH WHOM YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE SEATED.
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SEP. 99 (MON) 10:20
P. 002
Eric Massey
UNIFEM
phone 202
456-
United Nations Development Fund for Women
2787
fax 202
IN SUPPORT OF KOSOVO WOMEN REFUGEES
456 258,
Today's wars have no delineated front lines. Civilian populations are not only directly in the line of fire, but are also often
used as direct targets to put pressures on the military. In addition to these dangers that affect men. women and
children, rape and sexual violence against women is used as a weapon to demoralize combatants and the community.
Women are also targetted due to their reproductive role and their identity as the keeper of culture and tradition, with
total disempowerment as a goal. It is ironic that when women's pivotal role in the building and maintenance of their
community and nation is finally recognized, this knowledge is used against them for destructive purposes, to cause the
complete disempowerment of a society or a nation. The systematic use of this weapon against women to destroy the
very fabric of a society was never as clearly seen as with the scale and the organization of the horrific rape camps in
the "ethnic cleansing" of Bosnia. Today, as we speak, reports are coming in from relief and aid workers, eyewitnesses
and the victims themselves about the use of rape and sexual violence against ethnic Albanian Kosovar women as a
weapon of war.
Women are very vulnerable to social attitudes in their own societies that make the woman herself responsible for
having been raped. In some cultures, a women who has been raped is considered as "shamed", "polluted", or
"damaged goods" and is often ostracized by her family and her community; in some societies, it is even considered
best that she be killed to "wipe out the shame" she has brought to the family name. There are also the children of rape,
those few have the courage to mention, and even fewer know how to deal with.
Lack of food security, lack of adequate health and psychological care, lack of most basic types of security all
contribute to increase women's trauma, suffering and burden as an individual and as provider and protector to her
family. While food, care for children, the elderly and the handicapped are specifically a woman's task in many
cultures, women find themselves trapped in the role of passive recipients in most refugee and displaced camps.
Women are not part of the definition of their own needs nor in the development of solutions to their own problems
and issues. Women's access to power and decision-making arenas, which under normal peaceful circumstances is
widely unequal in most countries of the world, is severely curtailed in times of conflict.. Women's traditional role,
experience and contribution to conflict defusion, mediation and reconciliation within the home, the extended family
and the community is completely ignored, or more accurately scorned as irrelevant.
pleasenting
UNIFEM is developing an important initiative In support of the Kosovo Women refugees In the two
countries that have received the largest number of refugees, Albania and Macedonia . This programme's
overall objective Is to empower the Kosovo women refugees by supporting them to organize themselves to
define their own needs and concerns and to actively participate In the decisions that affect their life and
future. Towards that end, UNIFEM will:
widen the space for Kosovo Women refugees to assist relief, development and other donor agencies In
the development of solutions to their own problems and issues, as well as and to have a say In the
negotiation, conflict resolution and peace processes;
support trauma counselling and rehabilitation particularly for women victims of rape and sexual
violence and for their families;
assist in documenting cases of war crimes to be brought before the International War Crimes Tribunal;
contribute to setting up a communications (radio, printed media and Internet use) component to enable
sharing of critical information; and
enable an ongoing dialogue with and support to the host communíties with regard to the social,
political, economic and environmental impact of the massive influx of refugees.
SEP. 27 99 (MON) 10:21
P. 003
UNIFEM
United Nations Development Fund for Women
Fonds de Développement des Nations Unles pour la Femme
Fondo de Desarrollo de Las Nacionas Unidas para la Mujer
BUILDING CAPACITY FOR
A PEACEFUL AND ECONOMICALLY SECURE FUTURE
FOR KOSOVA WOMEN
PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION
UNIFEM's programme in support of Kosova Women refugees, returnees and IDPs is
geared towards providing the support and strengthening the capacity of Kosova women
to enable them to rebuild their lives, families and communities, participate in the
structure and institutions that will govern their present and future, and play a leadership
role in shaping a peaceful and economically secure future, based on tolerance for
diversity and respect for women and men's human rights
PROGRAMME DURATION
3 years, starting 1 August 1999
EXECUTING AGENCY
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
FUNDING STATUS
UNIFEM has allocated US$300,000 from core resources to this initiative, and the
Government of Italy has pledged US$150,000. We continue to fundraise for the entire
amount needed, namely US$3.5 million.
SEP. 99 (MON) 10:21
P. 004
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES
Objective 1
Working with UN, OSCE, the EU and other intergovernmental and international
organisations and agencies and the Kosova leadership to ensure that gender issues are
taken into considerations in planning. programming and implementation of activities in
support of Kosova
Overall Description of Activities
UNIFEM will recruit and place a senior Chief Technical Advisor (CTA), whose duties will
be twofold: she/he will have an advisory function in terms of mainstreaming gender
issues in the planning, programming and implementation of activities of UN and other
intergovernmental organizations and agencies; and she/he will be responsible for the
overall management and implementation of the UNIFEM programme for Kosova women.
Activities under this objective will also include:
Organizing fora for dialogue between Kosova women leaders and the international
relief and development community to ensure that Kosova women's voices are heard
and acted upon by the international community;
Setting up an Gender Task Force made up of representatives of various
organizations and Government to monitor gender issues, and make
recommendations for action as necessary;
Liaising and collaborating closely with regional intergovernmental and non-
governmental Balkan efforts to promote gender sensitive policies and peace in the
region
Objective 2
Strengthening the capacity and widening the space for Kosova Women refugees, IDPs and
returnees to assist relief, development and other donor agencies as well as NGOs in the
development and implementation of solutions to their own problems
Overall Description of Activities
Activities under this objective will focus on the identification, development and
implementation of tailor-made programmes in response to primary needs, skills
development and empowerment of different groups of women refugees, displaced
persons and returnees.
In close coordination with local groups and international organizations, UNIFEM will set
up women's centers or "spaces" in selected refugee camps, host communities and
resettlement areas where there are not currently adequate support services, where
possible linked with UNICEF child-friendly spaces. Aimed at reaching refugee women
living in host families and to facilitate cooperation with host communities. UNIFEM
proposes to cooperate with on-going women's centers where they exist, and to
encourage organization in communities where there are no such centers. The aim is to
support refugees and host families, while simultaneously building capacities and
sustainability for local women's projects. The programme will also provide support
through the central distribution locations set-up by UNHCR in Kosova. In addition, due to
the dispersed character of returnee communities, UNIFEM will set up two mobile
outreach units. Two-person teams will staff the UNIFEM Mobile Women's Centers that
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P. 005
will provide similar support and services to under-served refugee, returnee and
displaced persons communities.
Three basic types of activities will be supported (including building the capacity to
implement them), of which women's groups in each of the communities to be served can
select the most appropriate for their needs. Described below are these three basic sets
of activities, which are related to: a) Community organization, self-help groups formation,
and facilitation; b) Women's health, security and well-being; and c) development of
traditional and non-traditional skills development, and micro-businesses
Objective 3
Increasing and improving communications and information exchange and dissemination to
support Kosova women refugees, IDPs and returnees in their daily lives, in developing and
sharing solutions to common problems and issues, in maintaining ongoing dialogues with
relevant parties (e.g. returnees with relief and development agencies; refugees with host
communities, etc.) and in sharing general information on available resources
Overall Description of Activities
Rumors, fear, and Inflated expectations can cause confusion amongst refugee and
return populations. Refugees, returnees and displaced persons need reliable and timely
information about the many initiatives by and for refugees, about conditions on-the-
ground in Kosova, and about services available to refugees and returnees. To be
effective, information should presented in an accessible, attractive manner. UNIFEM
will develop and implement several initiatives targeted at the refugee/returnee
communities through a variety of media, which will improve information flow and
exchange. In addition, UNIFEM will develop and support initiatives around a specific
campaign against gender-based violence in Albania, Macedonia and Kosova.
Activities will focus on increasing and improving information exchange for the purpose of
assisting women in identifying services and support while refugees, upon return and as
internally displaced persons in Kosova through
Radio programs designed by and for refugees and returnees to provide information,
support and contacts for the entire refugee and returnee community.
Production and distribution of a magazine by and for refugees and returnees.
Compiling, publishing and distributing a resource guide for women's groups,
refugees and returnees
Objective 4
Empowering Kosova women to participate in and shape national institutions, and to assume
a leadership role in shaping a peaceful and economically secure future, based on tolerance
for diversity and respect for women and men's human rights
Overall Description of Activities
In order to support long-term confidence and peace-building particularly between and
amongst the different ethnic groups in the region, UNIFEM will:
facilitate the establishment, organization and operation of a coalition of women's
groups to respond to the current refugee and other social crises.
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P. 006
sponsor and develop a long-term women's initiative for a "Women's Policy Agenda"
which will bring women together, while simultaneously building capacities and skills
in policy-making, coalition-building and lobbying.
support the development of media campaigns which will highlight women's issues
and bring these into the public debate.
SHORT-TERM RESULTS
Missions and plans of UN, OSCE, EU and other intergovernmental and international
organizations and agencies benefitting from UNIFEM gender expertise
Relief and development organizations and agencies sensitized to gender issues and
delivering more gender responsive support and services to Kosova communities
Increased participation of Kosova women in shaping national institutions
Kosova women enabled to help themselves through a variety of activities ranging from
self-help groups to counselling, skills development and small businesses
Lessening of inter-ethnic violence and increased inter-ethnic dialogue between different
communities in Kosova
LONGER-TERM RESULTS
Programmes and activities of UN, OSCE, EC and other intergovernmental and
international organizations and agencies are more gender-responsive
Coordination and collaboration between UNIFEM and partners maximizes benefits to
Kosova women and their communities, and transition from relief to development
facilitated and sped
Good communications and information exchange facilitates the daily life of Kosova
women refugees, IDPs, and returnees and their communities
Women enabled to play a transformative leadership role in national institutions and
structures
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Thank you, Hope, for that kind introduction. It's a pleasure and
honor to be with all of you today -- as we join citizens from around the
world in celebrating International Women's Day. There are many
people here whose tireless commitment to women's rights over the
years has brought us together today: I want to especially thank Noeleen
Heyzer, executive director of UNIFEM, who I stood with so proudly at
the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing; and Margaret
Snyder, UNIFEM's founding director. I applaud Hope Miller for her
strong leadership of the US Committee for UNIFEM, which has inspired
such a dramatic expansion of the Committee's chapters over the past few
years. My appreciation to Ruth Zeller, president of the Metropolitan
New York Chapter, for hosting this event; and to my friend, Nane
Annan; honorary chair of this luncheon. I also want to recognize Norma
Levitt, former president of the NY Chapter.
I am deeply grateful for the honor you have given me today --
particularly when I hear the names of some of the remarkable women
who have been past recipients of the Award for Excellence -- including
our remarkable Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; civil rights
pioneer Dorothy Height; and one of the great New Yorkers -- and
women's advocates -- of all time, Bella Abzug.
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I understand that one of the recipients of this award is here with us
today -- Mildred Robbins Leet -- who was honored with her late
husband in 1992 for their invaluable work in promoting small grants
and loans to women in developing countries around the world. Thank
you all for putting me in such distinguished company.
I've noticed that the US Committee for UNIFEM has chosen as its
logo "Women Hold Up Half the Sky." I heard that expression often
when I accompanied my husband on his historic trip to China last year.
To me, those few words convey such a powerful image of what women
in every country do every single day, in their homes; in the market
place; in their communities; as they struggle to raise their children and
support their families; to pass on the values and traditions of their
culture; to participate in the economic and political life of their
community; and to protect the basic rights of all.
I learned recently that this is not only a traditional saying in China
-- but is also imbedded in the history and culture of our Native
Americans. But that doesn't surprise me -- because that one simple
phrase is a universal message of hope, carried deep within every
woman's heart.
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