SI UN Representative, Liliana Mosca examines the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on global food security.
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A blog by Helen Yang, following the NGO CSW66 parallel event “Asia Actions in Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment”.
A report released in February 2022 recognises the devastating and deadly consequences of climate inaction for humanity. Beverly Bucur reports.
Evelyne PARA, UN SI Representative at UNESCO discusses women's leadership in multilateralism.
Nina Smart follows the work of Rugiatu Turray, member of the Soroptimist Six, as she advocates to end the practice of female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone.
Helen Harvey brings us the highlights from SI's CSW66 Event, 'Opening Doors to a Bright Future: Educating, Empowering and Enabling Women'.
Older women face disproportionate economic empowerment challenges. Immediate Past President, Sharon Fisher lead an important session at CSW66.
Following many hours of discussion and negotiation, the Commission on the Status of Women in its 66th session (CSW66) finally adopted by consensus the Agreed Conclusions on the priority theme ‘Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies, and programmes.
This CSW66 event focused on the feminisation of climate change by sharing women's best practices from Nepal and Taiwan.
Women, Water and Climate Change: Roles and Risks Tackling the Challenges, highlighted the importance of enabling and empowering women to contribute to effective climate action, and demonstrated the necessity of integrating gender-responsive approaches to climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.
Our role as advocates is to continue to sound the alarm on the important issues addressed at CSW66 such as gender, climate, as well as old age.
Climate change and conflict are two of the biggest challenges facing the world today.
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