UNDP and National Association of NGOs of Uzbekistan (NANNOUz) is organizing an educational workshop and a roundtable in the frameworks of the visit of Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Paris, member of administrative board of Paris Center of Information on rights of women Ms. Françoise Guyot to the Republic of Uzbekistan from 25 April till 4 May 2007.

UNDP and NANNOUz, in cooperation with Women’s Committee of Uzbekistan, and with the support of the Embassy of France in the Republic of Uzbekistan will conduct the following activities with the participation of Ms. Guyot:

Two-day "Workshop on Improvement of fFmily Protection Mechanisms" covering international and national experience, based on the model of experience of France, to be held on 2-3 May 2007 at the "Shodlik Palace" hotel in Tashkent;

A roundtable on "The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women. Experience of France and Uzbekistan", to be held on 4 May 2007 at the "Shodlik Palace" hotel in Tashkent.

The participants of workshop and roundtable include deputies of Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, law-enforcement agencies, lawyers, and National Center on Human Rights of Republic of Uzbekistan - experts who are dealing with promotion and protection of women’s rights in their day-to-day work.

The workshop and the roundtable are conducted in the framework of gender project of United Nations Development Programme in Uzbekistan, which aims to support and build the capacity of the government, civil society and mass media in reducing the gender gaps via raising awareness of and implementing the recommendations of the CEDAW Committee to Uzbekistan.