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Building a Stronger United Nations for Women: One year after UN Women’s creation
[ February 29, 2012; 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. ]
Join the GEAR Campaign, a network of over 300 women’s, human rights, and social justice groups from around the world who actively follow the United Nations gender equality architecture process. Panelists will provide brief presentations on the current status of civil society partnership with UN Women and will offer thoughts on potential directions forward.
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When: Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location: Church Center UN, 777 1st Ave (at E 44th St.), …
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WEDO at CSW56
[ February 27, 2012 8:00 am to March 9, 2012 5:00 pm. ]
This year’s CSW 56, held from February 27th to March 9th, 2012, will focus on the urgency of rural women’s empowerment. The substantial contributions that women in rural areas bring to economic growth and the fight against hunger, malnutrition and poverty are well established. Therefore, an in-depth discussion on the situation and empowerment of rural women and their role in development is long overdue. CSW 56 will critically assess whether past efforts to empower rural …
Technical Background Documents for CSW56
The Commission on the Status of Women will hold the fifty-sixth session of their multi-year program, February 27th to March 9th 2012 at the United Nations in New York. The priority theme for this meeting is the Empowerment of Rural Women. Some key points of discussion will include agriculture, productive resources and financing, infrastructure, natural change resource management, climate adaptation and policies on rural development.
In preparation for 2012, UN Women in collaboration with the Food …
Joint Statement and Approaching Deadlines for the CSW56
Rural women bear the brunt of climate change impacts. The crucial resources of food, water, and fuel – whose collection rural women are responsible for – are being threatened by changes in temperature, precipitation rates, and natural disasters. In the face of altered rural landscapes, women, already at an economic, social, and cultural disadvantage, must take on other livelihood activities to support themselves and their families.
GEAR Campaign Launches Spoof Newspaper
New York, March 1 — The GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) Campaign for the new women’s entity at the UN has produced a spoof newspaper, The New Times for Women, to promote the campaign’s vision for the new ‘super agency’. The Europe Working Group led the project, launched at the opening of the Commission on the Status of Women meeting, and will be distributing thousands of copies at the UN during CSW this week. …
