The WNC is involved in a numbers of ways to represent women in the UK in the international arena. We are committed to undertaking work on specific international endeavours (mainly United Nations conventions and commissions), as well as facilitating the operation of a European and International E-Network .

Here you can find links to some of the reports, letters and guides we have produced concerning our international work.  

CSW

View information about the WNC's involvement in CSW 49 (2005)

View information about the WNC’s involvement in CSW 48 (2004)

View information about the WNC's involvement in CSW 47 (2003)  

Beijing Platform for Action

Women 2000 (word 336Kb)

What's Beijing got to do with me? (pdf 1.6Mb) 

Activities of the European & International E-Network (formerly the Women and Human Rights Working Group)

• Letter to Kim Howells MP about UK nomination to the Human Rights Council May 2006 (pdf 235 Kb)
  
• Letter to Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs about new UN Human Rights Council (pdf 268 Kb)
  
• WNC response to DfID development consultation – April 2006 (pdf 102 Kb)
  
• Joint response with the Violence Against Women Working Group to the Home Office ‘Paying the Price: a consultation on prostitution’ — November 2005 (pdf 168Kb)
  
• Letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs about the women’s rights and the draft Iraqi Constitution — July 2005 (pdf 60Kb)
  
• Letter to the Prime Minister about the importance of linking the Millennium Development Goals and the Beijing Platform for Action — July 2005 (pdf 587Kb)
  
•  Letter to the Minister for Europe about gender issues during the UK Presidency of the EU — June 2005 (pdf 423K)

The European and International E-Network (formerly the Women and Human Rights E-Network) was established to bring together the views of women from around the UK on international issues, to lobby government on key topics, and to contribute to government policy.