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On September 17, 2025 NGO CSW Geneva Held 8th Meeting of the Breakfast Briefing Series“Men and Women Working Together for Gender Equality”
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“Human Rights and the United Nations Crisis: Protecting Women, Security, and the United Nations System The Link between Liquidity Issues, Human Rights and Global Governance”
Submitted by WFWPI for the NGO CSW Geneva’s Task Force on Climate Change and Health and endorsed by members of NGO CSW Geneva with consultative status with ECOSOC.
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FAWCO for CEDAW
Watch the FAWCO for CEDAW Panel discussion moderated by Jessica Buchleitner, including guests, Dr. Gail James, Elahe Amani and Pam Perraud. Recorded October 27, 2022.
CEDAW is the human rights treaty, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women.
Graduate Women International offers this comprehensive International Day of Rural Women Toolkit that celebrates the limitless potential of rural women and girls everywhere. International Day of Rural Women is celebrated annually on 15 October.
The complete toolkit can be downloaded HERE.
The easy-to-use toolkit offers advocacy graphics that you can download for social media, action ideas, striking facts, relevant connections between rural women and the Sustainable Development Goals and much more.
Let’s join together today to celebrate rural women and raise awareness about their needs and resilience.
Are we on track to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls? This newly release publication from UN Women brings together the latest available evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, underscoring the progress made as well as the action still needed to accelerate progress. A concise 22 pages in length, the publication take a spotlight approach, selecting one indicator per goal to illustrate progress, gaps and challenges to date. The exception to this approach is SDG 5, which is covered at the target level using corresponding indicators with available data and presented in a two page infographic style spread. In the case of the environmental goals, data gaps are a serious challenge. Women and men differ in their vulnerability to environmental challenges but data gaps hampers deeper understanding of the gender-environment nexus. The publication presents what information is available in the form of an infographic and emphasizes the lack of data and need to address this gap. On Leave No One Behind the report makes clear: an analysis on leaving no one behind is inherently an analysis of women and girls from poor, rural and marginalized groups.
NGO CSW Geneva encourages the global sharing on all platforms of this excellent report. Please click here to read, download and share this report.
“What we once enjoyed and loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us,” Helen Keller.
With deep regret we are sharing the sad news of the passing Simone Ovart on 9 January 2019. All of us from the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva have regrettably lost one of our own; a bright light of compassion and distinction. Her commitment to the Committee through her leadership, current Bureau Advisor, Past-President, Committee Chair and overall influencer and leader, reveals a lifetime of dedication to advancing the status of women and girls.
Remembering Simone brings us strength, ignites compassion and reminds us that all things are possible. She will be deeply missed and may you Rest in Peace, dear Simone. Our Committee’s deepest condolences and prayers go out to Simone’s family, friends and Zonta colleagues.
Most sincerely,
NGO CSW, Geneva Bureau
Stacy Dry Lara
Carolyn Handschin
Anne Riz
Angela Sauvage
Claudia Williams
Paula Daeppen
A message from Claudia Williams, NGO CSW Geneva Secretary
I was deeply saddened to learn today of Simone’s passing. She was a vibrant, strong woman, to whom many have looked for leadership and friendship. I join the many women of CSW and Zonta who especially feel this loss, and together are mourning her passing.
I served as secretary of CSW-Geneva during the last year of Simone’s tenure as president. One of the highlights of our time together was observing her work on the Forum on Women and Global Migration, which she masterminded. She personally knew many influential UN leaders, and was able to suggest many speakers, including the Director General of the UN and several prominent Ambassadors. Under her leadership, the CSW Bureau worked to provide panelists qualified to explore the root causes of migration and to suggest innovative solutions. The Forum was very well attended and successfully met its goal of bringing to light important ways migrant women themselves can bring about change. Given her deep concern for the plight of migrant women, it must have been especially satisfying to Simone to inspire further progress in an area where much improvement is needed.
A message from Carolyn Handschin, NGO CSW Geneva Vice President
I was so shocked and very sorry to hear of the passing of Simone. It was just a few months ago that she was leading the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in Geneva with such vitality. I feel a very personal closeness to her. We sometimes met as members of the Committee at Conchita’s home in the past. We would spend hours in the garden drinking tea while discussing issues, planning events and writing statements. She would always drive all the way from Turin for these meetings and I would think how important she feels this is. She was very strong, focused and caring, about the larger issues and also about the team.
It was because of Simone that I recently re-joined the Committee and I feel very grateful to her for that. She very warmly invited me little more than a year ago to join her and several other members to organize the Migration Forum. For several months, we communicated almost daily and her high expectations and strong leadership guided the process, especially getting confirmation from some of the key speakers. I often thought that she must’ve been very good in her professional experience as a business leader and entrepreneur.
I personally and surely we all, as the NGO Committee on the Status of Women are very grateful to have shared important times with her and benefitted from her knowledge, experience and love.
Thank you Simone!