Vienna (OTS/SK) – MONDAY, January 29, 2024:
12:00 Petra Bayr, SPÖ spokesperson for foreign policy and global development, takes part in the memorial event of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations and UNIS (United Nations Information Service) at the Vienna International Center (VIC). The event is supported by the “United Nations Holocaust Outreach Programme” and the UK Permanent Mission to the United Nations (Vienna International Centre).
6:00 pm The 2nd Prof. Symposium takes place. Rudolf Gelbard under the title “Dialogue of Religions”. The “Dialogue of Religions” represents an important platform that brings together people of different religions to promote understanding, tolerance and cohesion. In this context, the educational legacy of Prof. Rudolf Gelbard, a Holocaust survivor who, after his release, was intensely committed to raising awareness of Nazi crimes. More information and registration for the event can be found at http://tinyurl.com/5cjezpz7 (Kardinal-König-Haus, Kardinal-König-Platz 3, 1130 Vienna).
19:00 As part of the event series “Changes in the Middle East/Arab”, curated by Gudrun Harrer, Eckart Woertz (Director of the GIGA Institute for Middle Eastern Studies in Hamburg and Professor of Contemporary History and Middle Eastern Politics at the University of Hamburg ) will give a lecture on the topic “Wheat, weapons, resistance: Russia’s policy towards the Middle East after the wars in Ukraine and Gaza”. More information about the event and registration can be found at http://tinyurl.com/hbmud8nv (Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Armbrustergasse 15, 1190 Vienna).
WEDNESDAY, January 31, 2024:
9:00 The National Council meets for a meeting (Parliament, National Council Chamber).
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2024:
10:00 Online press conference with Petra Bayr, SPÖ spokesperson for foreign policy and global development and founder of the stopFGM platform, on the topic “The contribution of science to the fight against female genital mutilation”. Other interview partners are Nadja Taumberger (senior doctor for gynecology and obstetrics at KH Spittal ad Drau/Medical University of Graz), Mirijam Hall (assistant doctor for gynecology and obstetrics at the Ottakring Clinic, where she is part of the medical team at the FGM outpatient clinic ) and Elena Jirovsky-Platter (university assistant at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Unit for Medical Anthropology and Global Health at the Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna). Link to online press conference (Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/96794937158 – Meeting ID: 967 9493 7158. We ask that you provide your name and middle name when joining the online press conference. Registration for the press conference is requested at [email protected].
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024:
10:00 SPÖ Federal Women's President and member of the National Council, Eva-Maria Holzleitner, participates in the SPÖ Upper Austria and SPÖ Women Upper Austria event “Morning with Michael – brunch and conversation”. The theme of the event is “Discrimination in prescription and sport”. Participants: female president of the SPÖ Upper Austria and member of the state parliament Renate Heitz, gender medicine specialist Anna Maria Dieplinger, businesswoman Isabella Kling and the host, regional party chairman of the SPÖ Upper Austria LR Michael Lindner . More information and registration at http://tinyurl.com/3ee67rhb (Central in Linz, Landstraße 36, 4020 Linz).
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