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at CSW 58
Please join AWID, our members, allies and partners
at the following events and activities.
58th Session of the
Commission on the
Status of Women
March 10 – 21, 2014
United Nations Headquarters
New York
Monday March 10 Monday March 10
Protect women human rights defenders:
From resolution to solutions
Sweden’s side event: The role of men and
boys in contributing to the achievement
of gender equality goals and female
empowerment
1:15 – 2:30pm
UN North Lawn Building, Room 7
The first ever resolution on the protection of Women
Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) was passed by the UN
General Assembly in December 2013.This event will provide
background on the resolution and its significance in terms
of the need to implement protection mechanisms and other
measures to create an enabling environment for WHRDs.
The event will also provide space for conversation about the
connection between the priority theme of the 2014 CSW
and the role WHRDs can play in the post-2015 development
agenda. In this regard, the resolution recognizes the role of
WHRDs in the promotion and protection of all human rights,
democracy, the rule of law and development. It is crucial to
give WHRDs a voice both in shaping the future development
agenda, and to recognize that they are actors of change in
supporting its implementation. WHRDs can play an important
role in ensuring that development efforts leave no one behind
by highlighting gaps and challenges, in particular as they
relate to the most vulnerable and marginalized in society.
Introduction and Welcome: Hans Brattskar, Deputy
Foreign Minister, Norway
Moderator: Charlotte Bunch, Founder, Center for Women’s
Global Leadership at Rutgers University and Board Member,
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
Panelists:
·· John Hendra, Deputy Executive Director, Policy and
Programme Bureau, UN Women
·· Sussan Tahmasebi, Co-founder and MENA/Asia Regional
Director, International Civil Society Action
Network (ICAN) and Iranian Woman Human Rights Defender
·· Cristina Hardaga Fernández, JASS (Just Associates),
Regional Office for Mexico and Central America
Tuesday March 11
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Church Center United Nations (CCUN) Boss Room,
777 UN Plaza, 8th Floor
Implications of the Funding Landscape for
Delivering on the MDGs for Women & Girls
In recent years a host of ‘new’ actors on the development
scene—many from the private sector—have expressed
strong interest in supporting women and girls. Despite this
interest, the latest research by AWID shows that women’s
organizations continue to be significantly under-resourced.
This session will examine the importance of women’s rights
organizing, and will explore opportunities and challenges
in engaging with diverse private sector actors to advance
women’s rights agendas.
Speakers:
·· Julia Miller, AWID
Organized by:
·· K. K. Verdade, Fundo Elas
AWID and Mama Cash
·· Cathy Feingold, AFL-CIO
Zohra Moosa, Mama Cash
Hakima Abbas, AWID (Moderator)
1:15 – 2:30 pm
Conference Room D (CB)
Sweden’s side-event puts the MDG gender equality goals
and targets of women and girls empowerment at the center,
whilst investigating how the work with men and boys
can contribute to their realization. Why involve men and
boys in gender equality work? What is the evidence that
male involvement contributes to improving the situation of
women and girls? What can we learn from interventions on
engaging men in relation to achieving MDG goals related to
gender equality? And finally, what recommendations do the
panelists have on engaging men and boys in gender equality
within the post-2015 agenda?
Organized by:
Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency (SIDA)
Welcome remarks by Ms Maria Arnholm, Minister for
Gender Equality, Sweden to be followed by a panel with
senior experts from the World Bank Group, the Men
Engage Global Alliance, the Association for Women in
Development (AWID) and the Swedish Association for
Sexuality Education (RFSU) moderated by Sida’s Lead
Policy Specialist on Gender Equality.
Tuesday March 11
4:30 – 6:00 pm CCUN Chapel, 777 UN Plaza
Moving Beyond the MDGs for the Realization
of Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
This panel will discuss key priority for the realization
of women’s rights and gender equality within the
emerging post-2015 sustainable development goals agenda.
The speakers will lay out challenges and opportunities for
goal setting; provide a critique of the MDGs from a feminist
perspective; discuss challenges for reducing poverty and
inequality while highlighting moving beyond human rights
rhetoric to implementation.
Organized by:
AWID, Center for Women’s Global Leadership,
Feminist Taskforce, FEMNET, Huairou Commission,
IWRAW AP, WEDO, Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom on behalf of the Post 2015
Women’s Coalition
Wednesday March 12
Friday March 14
Women Human Rights Defenders: protecting
our rights, documentation and resistance
What Women Get: Promoting Transparency
and Increasing Accountability in Financing
for Gender Equality in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
8:30 am
Hardin Room, CCUN, 777 UN Plaza
Since 2005, the Women Human Rights Defenders
International Coalition has brought together over 30
organizations to form a global network to protect and
support women human rights defenders (WHRDs).
Our groundbreaking work has helped to identify and
document gender-specific experiences of women defenders
and promote global recognition of the discrimination, abuse
and violence that women defenders face on a daily basis.
Coalition members and defenders will discuss prevention
and protection mechanisms, the importance of documenting
our advocacy and the violations we face, and other creative
acts of resistance.
4:45 - 6 pm
Conference Room D
This session aims to generate new ideas and strengthen
political support for innovative financing initiatives and accountability systems needed to ensure that investments on
gender equality and women’s rights are in line with political
commitments. It will draw on the experiences and perspectives of governments, donors and civil society.
Friday March 14
Speakers:
John Hendra (Assistant Secretary General, UN Women)
Irma van Dueren (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands)
Izaskun Landaida (Director Emakunde Basque Women’s
Institute)
Patti O’Neill (OECD-DAC GENDERNET Secretariat)
Nerea Craviotto (Association of Women’s Rights in Development)
Building Strategic Alliances for Women
Workers’ Rights post-2015
Organized by:
UN Women, AWID and the OECD Network on Gender
Equality
Organized by:
The WHRD International Coalition
4:30 pm Salvation Army Auditorium (221 W. 52nd Street, between 2nd & 3rd Ave.)
This parallel event provides a space for trade union women
activists and their NGO sisters to think and plan together
strategically about how to ensure that women’s rights
as workers are not overlooked in the new post-2015
framework. In the current political context, it is difficult
to secure policy gains for women’s rights, including their
economic and social protection rights as workers, and
the gender-based violence directed toward women who
advocate for these rights, without challenging the multiple
dimensions of power at work. We are operating within a
neoliberal financial/political framework that has a tendency
to frame budget and policy options narrowly, marginalize
rights, and increasingly attempt to ‘outsource’ the fulfillment
of basic human needs to the unregulated caprices of the
private sector. When so much is at stake, and decisions
about the global sustainable development policy framework
are about to be made at the highest levels, women need
to be more strategically organized than ever before,
simultaneously at the local, national and regional levels,
across sectors and issues.
Co-sponsors: ·· International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
·· Association for Women’s Rights in Development
(AWID)
·· Education International (EI)
·· Centre for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL)
·· Public Services International (PSI)
·· International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Friday March 14
12:30 pm
Hardin Room, CCUN, 777 UN Plaza, 11th floor
Lesbian, Bi and Trans Activism:
Creative Strategies, Economic and Social
Rights and Post 2015
Sponsored by:
COC Netherlands, RESURJ, the Center for Economic
and Social Rights, DIVA for Equality, Association for
Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Speakers:
·· Eugenia López (Balance, RESURJ Mexico)
·· Noelene Nabulivou (DIVA For Equality, Fiji)
·· Lalaine Viado (Philippines)
AWID’s Social Media Mobilization
During the first week of the CSW58, on March 10th
and 11th AWID will launch a tweet-a-thon to advocate
for the inclusion of women’s rights and gender justice
in the new development agenda.
We are inviting AWID members, other partners, and
allies to join us in urging CSW 58 to:
·· listen to women’s rights advocates regarding the
limitations of the MDGs in delivering progress for the
lives of women and girls;
·· include women’s rights and gender justice at the
core of the new development agenda; and
·· encourage existing efforts to undertake a broad,
multi-stakeholder consultation to shape the post2015 agenda. During the 2nd week, March 17th to 21st, through our
tweet-a-thon we will respond to CSW negotiations
in an effort to ensure that CSW member states don’t
ignore women’s rights and demands. Please follow us on Twitter (@AWID) and Facebook!
To get regular updates about our online mobilization
become an AWID Member at www.awid.org/AWIDMembership.
Read our CSW58 updates and get the latest
information on awid.org.
We also invite you to follow our CSW blogging on the
Young Feminist Wire at www.yfa.awid.org.

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