Tag: CSW65
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Negotiating at CSW65: Struggling to Stop the Rollback of Women’s Rights
Francesca Fletcher Williams gives us an insight to how negotiations work at the United Nations, and what they mean for CSW65 and beyond.
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Amplifying The Voices On Ending Female Genital Mutilation
Amplifying The Voices On Ending Female Genital Mutilation Parallel Event at CSW65.
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Liechtenstein to Ratify the Istanbul Convention – President of General Assembly’s Special Event at CSW65
The Special Event of the President of the General Assembly’s event, a CSW65 Side Event, “Political Leadership and Violence Against Women and Girls: Prevention First” was held on 23 March 2021.
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Women’s Health and Gender Inequalities: Lessons and emerging priorities 25 years after the Beijing Platform for Action
The 25 years since the visionary Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for Women have seen dramatic changes globally. While there has been important progress on some fronts, new challenges have emerged, including the current COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the concerns outlined 25 years ago remain deafeningly relevant for women’s and girl’s rights.
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CSW Civil Society Briefing: Making Soroptimist Voices Heard
On the last day of the first week of CSW65, members of Soroptimist International (SI) and others from civil society met with the facilitator of the CSW negotiations, Armenia’s Ambassador Mher Margaryan and Lopa Banerjee, Director of UN Women’s Civil Society Division, during a Civil Society Briefing.
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CSW65 Side Event: Digital Gender Gaps and Opportunities
New York SI UN Representatives, Siren Fadler and Maria Fornella-Oehninger, report on the CSW65 Virtual Side Event, “Digital Gender Gaps and Opportunities”, organised by Germany and the Council of Europe.
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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.