[WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [WSIS-CT] One question - Urgent

Tue Sep 9 09:00:58 BST 2003

Dear Saeid,

You might try the NGO Geneva Welcome Centre, and see if they can help (see information below)

kind regards
Rikke 

Senioradviser
The Danish Institute for Human Rights
National Department
Wilders Plads 8 H
1403 Copenhagen K

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-----Original Message-----
From: Neshat Saeid [mailto:saeidneshat at yahoo.com]
Sent: 8. september 2003 21:58
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org; ct at wsis-cs.org
Subject: [WSIS-CT] One question - Urgent

Dear friends,

I am writing you from Iran, from the Institute for
Women's Studies and Research, a non-governmental
organization in Special Consultative Status to ECOSOC.
It is so important for us to be in Geneva, and
therefore, four active women are going to attend at
the meetings of PrepCom3 in Geneva. When they were
arranging their programs, they had a limited fund for
their accomodation in Geneva. Now that they have
bought their tickets, and made themselves ready, they
have been informed that they do not have the fund. Now
they are facing with this problem they are going to
leave the country next week, but they do not have any
accomodation in Geneva. 

I am just asking you - all list members - especially
those who are based in Geneva - to help us and to show
if there is any possibilities for these four women
from the Institute to be accomodated in Geneva, at
least for one week.  Is there any contact that might
be helpful to facilitate such representation in
Geneva?

I hope that you can give us good guidelines what to
do?

Best regards
Saeid N. Neshat

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