A blog by Mary Muia, SI UN Representative Nairobi
"At the 62nd Session on the Commission on the Status of Women ...
CSW62 (2018)
The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018.
Priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls
Review theme: Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (of the forty-seventh session)
On World Water Day, 22 March 2018, the International Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development ...
The single largest forum for the UN Member States, civil society organizations, and other international actors, ...
Commission on the Status of Women Sixty-second session 12 – 23 March 2018 'Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls'
Agreed conclusions 23 March 2018.
The Nature's Future: Ending Child Marriage hosted by the Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations and Zonta International
Presented by Madre, the theme was Addressing Political Concerns, this was a panel event, allowing 4 strong progressive rural women the chance to tell their story, and advocate on behalf of their communities.
Human Trafficking In America: Risks for Women and Girls in Rural Areas and Faith-Based Prevention and System-Wide Strategy on Gender Parity: How to Walk the Talk by Paula Freschi Kamena, Marin County District Attorney and Soroptimist of Marin County.
Today, 21 March SI Advocacy Manager, Caroline Mulligan read the NGO Oral Statement at CSW62, New York on behalf of Soroptimist International.
The UK Mission and Civil Society held their first joint event at CSW62 - A flagship occasion organised by the UK Gender Equality Office and UK CSW Alliance.
"Some of the most productive time I have spent at CSW starts “IN THE QUEUE" or Line as Americans say. This is a perfect time to start engaging, sharing the story of why we are here, and developing new networks and contacts that further add to my experience and knowledge base.
"UN Women partnered with an extensive group of civil society organisations on Thursday, to hold an innovative flagship event - Leaving No One Behind for Planet 50-50 by 2030: every rural woman and girl everywhere
CSW62 event hosted by The Permanent Missions of Argentina, Bangladesh, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Nigeria, and United Kingdom to the UN, 14 March 2018
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