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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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.
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.
Blog by Dawn Marie Lemonds, SI Newport Harbor Area.
A jam-packed interactive session featured our own Immediate ...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres candidly speaks of gender inequality as "a shadow pandemic” during the Virtual Townhall Meeting with Women's Civil Society.
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.
Blog by Pat Black, SI Special Advisor to Advocacy.
The Committee of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) ...
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.
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, achieve the goal of gender equality and meet the goals of the 2030 Agenda.
The excitement is mounting as we welcome the start of the 65th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women ...
In the last of the Youth Preparation series, NGO CSW/NY hosted an impactful webinar on male allyship.
SI Advocacy Advisor, Linda Witong, blogs from the 14th Session of the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ).
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