Overview
The Journalists and Writers Foundation, with its Women’s Platform, will undertake the Istanbul Summit 2015 entitled “Women as the Beneficiaries and Actors of Humanitarian Action”.
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Aim, Objectives and Expected Outcome
Aim: To raise awareness of the international community to the plight of the refugees and displaced persons in the war torn areas, especially in the Middle East, by emphasizing the special condition of woman refugees and displaced persons.
Expected Outcome: It is expected that field accounts by specialized CSOs as well as UN’s specialized bodies’ theoretical and technical inputs would provide a framework for a renewed awareness this issue.
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Date
May 9-10, 2015
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Venue
To be announced.
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Participation
Istanbul Summit is open to all CSOs women representatives, academics, specialists and journalists. For those wishing to attend please register to a session of interest at http://istanbulsummit.org/index.php/registration.
Registration Fee: $100 registration fee covers opening ceremony and sessions attendance, lunches, break refreshments and Bosphorus Cruise event. Registration fee does not cover transportation expenses or hotel accommodations. Reduced hotel rates are available.
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Languages
The working language will be in English. There will be simultaneous interpretation to Turkish, Russian and French on the opening & closing ceremonies and sessions.
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Transportation
Round-trip shuttle service is provided from the surrounding hotels to the Congress Center.
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Visa
Please be informed that some foreign nationals will require a visa to enter Turkey. You are encouraged to check http://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/ to see if they are required a Turkish visa. In case you will have a connecting flight you might want to check if you will need a transit visa connection.
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Insurance
The participants are expected to have for their own insurances and shall be responsible to cover expenses related to medical treatment, etc.
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Name Badges
Name badges are distributed upon on-site registration. Please make sure to bring your badge to all events and meals.
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General Information about Istanbul and Turkey
You can find some useful information about Istanbul and Turkey at this page.
The colorful Family Photo of the Summit reflects the energy and dynamism of the program. Please visit below link for all the photos from Summit.
Istanbul Summit 2015 Video Message of Atefeh Riazi, the United Nations Chief Information Technology Officer, Assistant Secretary-General, Office of Information and Communications Technology, with responsibility for all of the organization’s needs relating to information and communications technology.