Category: Blog
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The Road to Equality: Preparing Women and Girls to Lead – CSW Parallel Event
SI Advocacy Coordinator, Hannah Agius, blogs from the Soroptimist International CSW65 Parallel Event.
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CSW65 Parallel Event – Fix the System: Get Her Elected
Blog by Dawn Marie Lemonds, SI Newport Harbor Area. A jam-packed interactive session featured our own Immediate Past President Mariet Verhoef-Cohen as one of the keynote speakers along with other leaders from Women for Water Partnership, and elected leaders – Rachel Dodge former Attorney General in Brazil, Bonita Zarrillo from Canada, and Sonja Thorbergsdottir from…
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CSW65 Official Sessions for 16 March: Follow up to the Beijing Platform for Action
Blog by Pat Black, SI Special Advisor to Advocacy. The Committee of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) continues to meet in formal session at the United Nations and online. During the last session on 16 March, the members have been considering Agenda Item 3: Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women…
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CSW65 side event – Australia’s eSafety model for addressing gendered-based violence online
While the COVID-19 pandemic had revolutionised the way we communicated and in many ways offered us a variety of tools to socialise, work or attend school online. Social media, video-conferencing apps, voice calls and text chats had also increased the amount of online harassment, intimidation and abuse which was directed at women.
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Virtual Townhall CSW65 Meeting with UN Secretary-General, António Guterres
UN Secretary-General António Guterres candidly speaks of gender inequality as “a shadow pandemic” during the Virtual Townhall Meeting with Women’s Civil Society.
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CSW65 Opening Session
This year because CSW is virtual, everyone who wanted to attend the Opening Session were able to do so. It probably didn’t feel quite as grand as it would have done to be there in person but I appreciated being able to listen to some giants of the UN system.
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What is happening at CSW65?
The excitement is mounting as we welcome the start of the 65th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65), 15 – 26 March 2021. Please have a read below to see what events you can attend online – there is something for everyone! At the annual Commission on the Status of Women,…
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CSW65 Consultation Day
While we may be living through a gender crisis at this time, we are being presented with the opportunity for gender equality advocates from every sector of society – governments, civil society, private sector, entrepreneurs, trade unions, artists, academia and social influencers – to drive urgent action and accountability in order to build back better,…
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NGO CSW/NY Youth Series: A Conversation on Male Allyship
In the last of the Youth Preparation series, NGO CSW/NY hosted an impactful webinar on male allyship.
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14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
SI Advocacy Advisor, Linda Witong, blogs from the 14th Session of the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ).