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Update from CSW69: HRC Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women unable to attend
Due to unforeseen complications with an ESTA visa, attendance of the HRC Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women at #CSW69 has not been possible.
Due to internal changes, the CSW Secretariat has confirmed that delivering the opening ceremony speech virtually, submitting a recorded statement, or having it read by another representative will not be permitted. However, they have assurance that the statement will be placed in the UN Journal.
Despite this circumstance, the NGO CSW Geneva has taken the decision to support the HRC Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women by publishing the full statement. Please find the link to the website here: https://lnkd.in/dbwJpNBS.
The NGO CSW Geneva UNECE Task Force organizes Beijing +30 review, spearheading Civil Society consultation process
The NGO CSW Geneva is proud to have organized the Beijing +30 review for Civil Society in the UNECE region. Civil Society engagement is vital and NGO CSW Geneva has encouraged all NGOs to become involved in the process of the review on the 12 critical areas for the UNECE region (56 countries including Europe, Türkiye, Russia, Canada, and the USA). To ensure full participation, NGO CSW Geneva invited all interested Civil Society members from the UNECE Region to participate in online working groups for each of the 12 critical areas of concern. (Please see this background document). This process culminated in the Civil Society Forum on October 19 and 20, 2024.
Statements and videos from the 12 working groups are available on our Beijing +30 page.
UN Women – Europe and Central Asia also published an article on the UNECE Beijing +30 Consultation and Forum, and the work done by NGO CSW Geneva for it. You can read it here.
NGO CSW Geneva Executive Bureau
President: Carolyn Handschin, Women’s Federation for World Peace International
Vice Presidents: Berthe De Vos-Neven,Soroptimist International;
Brigitte Polonovski Vauclair, Regards de Femmes & International Council of Women;
Zarin Hainsworth, Widow’s Rights International
Treasurer: Donatella Benjamin, Soroptimist International;
Assistant Treasurer: Paula Daeppen, Biovision Foundation & FAWCO
Executive Secretary: Sallie Chaballier, FAWCO;
Assistant Secretary: Jo Thompson; National Alliance of Women’s Organizations UK
CSW68 Agreed Conclusions (the advance unedited version)
The Commission adopted agreed conclusions on “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective” on March 22, 2024.
https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/csw-68-agreed-conclusions-advance-unedited-version-2024-03-22-en.pdf
The 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
CSW68 delivered robust commitments by UN member States to strengthen financing and institutions to eradicate women’s and girls’ poverty.
Read the press release from UN Women here.
“Nourishing Equality and Peace: Addressing Poverty and Food Insecurity”
On February 29, 2024 we hosted our annual Consultation Day event for CSW68.
Read our Call to Action here
NGO CSW Geneva 50th Anniversary Celebration
On September 21, 2023, the International Day of Peace, the NGO Committee on the Status of Women celebrated its 50th Anniversary. Representatives of member organizations and distinguished guests gathered in Palais Anna and Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Geneva.
Click here to read the event summary and view photos from the day.
Oral intervention by Carolyn Handschin, for the NGO CSW Geneva to event convened by UN Women and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Thursday, May 11, 2023.
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: Gender snapshot 2022
Presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 goals calling out the long road ahead to achieve gender equality. The latest available Sustainable Development Goal data on SDG 5, shows that the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. Read it here: https://bit.ly/3WqJs5IGendersnapshot2022
About Us
The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva (NGO CSW Geneva) is a not-for-profit association established under Articles 60 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code. The NGO CSW Geneva acts as a strategic platform for UN accredited Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) with consultative status with ECOSOC for the advancement of human rights and the empowerment of women. It facilitates the activities of its member organizations, in support of the United Nations and its goals and with Member States, for gender equality and the empowerment and defense of the rights of women and girls across the globe.
The Committee acts as a forum for the exchange of information and views on matters of common interest and coordinates the drafting of joint statements to UN agencies and commissions. It cooperates with its sister committees in New York and Vienna and supports the work of UN Women and the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
In particular the NGO CSW Geneva supports implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, UN Security Resolution 1325, the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) in particular SDG #5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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The NGO Committee on the Status of Women Geneva (NGO CSW Geneva) welcomes new members and any form of support or participation! The NGO CSW Geneva brings representatives from NGOs in consultative relationship with the UN together to share information, coordinate NGO participation at various UN meetings and bring their expertise to jointly work on substantive projects, such as joint statements, the organization of panel events and others advocacy activities around Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.
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