The fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 March 2013. The Global Fund for Women will be leading and participating in several sessions:
Investing in Peace? Violence Against Women, Militarism, and Budgeting for "Security"
Global Fund for Women co-sponsored session
Monday, March 4th
10:30-12:00
Salvation Army Auditorium
221 East 52nd Street
A panel discussion with high-level experts in the areas of violence against women, human security and militarism. The discussion will focus on the links between gender-based violence, and the prioritization and allocation of national budgets in the name of "security." It will include an analysis of the ways in which state spending reflects the expressed security priorities of civil society worldwide, and the impacts of militarism on women, families, communities, and society as a whole. In keeping with the theme of CSW57, specific attention will be given to the gendered effects of militarism on women, and the ways in which gender-aware budgeting can help offset some of the negative effects on gender relations caused by militarized societies. The panel will be built on CWGL, the Global Fund and WILPF’s current focus areas of militarism, gender-based violence, security, and peace-building.
Organized by Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Global Fund for Women
Fighting Violence against women: strategies and partnerships
Global Fund for Women board and staff participation in session
Monday, March 4th
10:30-12:00
Drew Room
Ground Floor
777 UN Plaza
See NGOCSW website for details.
Organized by All India Women’s Conference, Women and Memory Forum (organization of Hoda Elsadda, Global Fund board member)
Violence Against Women in Rural Areas in Central Asia
Global Fund for Women board and staff participation in session
Monday, March 4th
2:30-4:00
Drew Room
Ground Floor
777 UN Plaza
See NGOCSW website for details.
Organized by Forum of Women’s NGO’s of Krygyzstan (Organization of Nurgul Djanaeva, Global Fund board member)
The Post-2015 Development Agenda: What’s at Stake for the World’s Women?
Global Fund for Women board and staff participation in session
Tuesday, March 5th
10:30-12:00
Chapel
1st Fl
777 UN Plaza
See NGOCSW website for details.
Organized by Baha’i International Community, AWID (Organization of Lydia Alpizar, Global Fund board member)
Prevent, Protect and Prosecute! End Rape and Gender-based Violence in Conflict
Global Fund for Women co-sponsored session
Tuesday, March 5th
10:30-12:00
Boss Room
8th Floor
777 UN Plaza
The Nobel Women’s Initiative and the Global Fund for Women will facilitate an interactIve discussion with Nobel Women Laureates, activists and donors, focused on ending gender-based violence and rape in conflict situations. The session will bring out concrete strategies and best practices on ensuring prevention, strengthening justice mechanisms and ending impunity for these crimes. Members of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in conflict will make presentations about the targeted strategies that need to be put in place. Outcomes of the session will be to plan for concerted action at the community, government and international level to implement international mechanisms to end gender-based violence, bring perpetrators to justice and make recommendations to donors on the most effective ways to support initiatives to end rape in conflict.
Organized by Nobel Women’s Initiative, Global Fund for Women
16 Days Campaign Open Forum
Global Fund for Women board and staff participation in session
Tuesday, March 5th
2:30-4:00
Boss Room
8th Floor
777 UN Plaza
See NGOCSW website for details.
Organized by CWGL (Organization founded by Charlotte Bunch, Global Fund board member)
Sustaining and Invigorating Multi-stakeholder Responses to Violence Against Women: Strategy Meeting with Donors and Women’s Human Rights Organizations
Global Fund for Women co-sponsored session
Wednesday, March 6th
10:30-12:00
Hardin Room
11th Floor
777 UN Plaza
An interactive session with the following aims: i) To strengthen dialogue between women’s human rights organizations and donors focused on violence against women ii) To share existing innovative practices from both donors and activists that have impacted social, contextual and institutional changes related to eliminating violence against women iii) To arrive at standards and elements of a feminist framework to influence donor priorities and foster multi-stakeholder collaboration to promote work on eliminating violence against women iv) To strategize on multi-stakeholder initiatives and collaborations that are wholistic and comprehensive, taking into account the emerging trends and different contexts in relation to VAW. Donors who have stepped up to fund women's rights like the MDG3 Fund, Global Fund for Women grantees, private foundations and individuals funding women's rights, will discuss and plan for key opportunities for moving the needle on women's rights issues.
Organized by Global Fund for Women, International Women’s Rights Action Watch – Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
Women and the Egyptian Revolution: Documentation as Resistance
Global Fund for Women board and staff participation in session
Wednesday, March 6th
12:30-2:00
Boss Room
8th floor
777 UN Plaza
See NGOCSW website for details.
Organized by Women and Memory Forum (organization of Hoda Elsadda, Global Fund board member)
Women's Leadership to End the Korean War
Global Fund for Women board and staff participation in session
Wednesday, March 6th
2:30-4:00
Church Center for the United Nations
8th floor
777 First Avenue at 44th Street
2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the armistice agreement, which halted the Korean War but left the Korean peninsula divided, millions of families separated, and both sides increasingly militarized. The panel will explore the consequences of the unended Korean War and militarization of the peninsula on the lives of women, why women's movements must provide leadership in this moment, and strategies they are using such as UNSC 1325. Speakers include: Gyung Lan Jung of Women Making Peace, South Korea, Hosu Kim of CUNY Staten Island, Christine Ahn of the Global Fund for Women and Korea Policy Institute, and June Kim of United Methodist Committee on Relief.
Panelist: Christine Ahn, Global Fund for Women Senior Policy and Research Analyst
Media as an Instrument to Fight Violence against Women in Conflict Settings
Global Fund for Women board and staff participation in session
Wednesday, March 6th
2:30-4:00
Armenian Convention Center
V Hall
Official CSW Side Event. See NGOCSW website for details.
Organized by Peace is Loud (Organization of Abigail Disney, Global Fund board member)
Tradition, Culture and Religion: Affirming Existing Human Rights Agreements to Strengthen the Effort
Global Fund for Women co-sponsored session
Thursday, March 7th
12:30-2:00pm
Chapel
1st Floor
777 UN Plaza
See NGOCSW website for details.
Organized by AWID (Organization of Lydia Alpizar, Global Fund board member)
Women Moving Mountains: High Impact Investment to Eliminate and Prevent Violence Against Women – The Case of the Dutch MDG3 Fun
Global Fund for Women co-sponsored session
Thursday, March 7th
4:45-6:00pm
Conference Rm B
United Nations
Official CSW Side Event. See NGOCSW website for details.
Organized by the Government of the Netherlands, AWID, Breakthrough India, Global Fund for Women, Casa de la Mujer from Colombia
For a Life Free from Violence Against Women and Girls!
Global Fund for Women co-sponsored session
Friday, March 8th
10:00am-12:00pm
First Avenue and 42nd Street starting at 10:00am
The march will depart at 10:30am and will proceed to Third Avenue and 47th Street and on to Dag Hammarskjold plaza.
This march addresses the theme of the 57th CSW taking place at the United Nations, in New York that week which will focus on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. On 8th March, women's rights advocates attending the CSW will march through the city with the following demands to their governments:
- Take Concrete Steps to End Impunity!
- Fund Gender Equality and Human Rights Instead of Militarism!
- Protect Women Human Rights Defenders!
Organized by AWID. Co-sponsored by Global Fund for Women and hundreds of other women's rights organizations.
What Lies Beneath - The Deep Structures that Perpetuate Gender Discrimination
Global Fund for Women board and staff participation in session
Friday, March 8th
12:30-2:00pm
See NGOCSW website for details.
To stimulate a discussion on the Gender At Work framework and other approaches to unraveling gender discrimination in institutions
Organized by Gender at Work
Panelist: Shalini Nataraj, Director for Advocacy and Partnerships, Global Fund for Women
Countering Conservative Economic and Religious Forces at the UN
Global Fund for Women co-sponsored session
Friday, March 8th
6:15-7:45pm
1st Floor Chapel
777 United Nations Plaza
This panel will analyse the agendas of neoliberal and neoconservative forces in the Rio+20, ICPD+20, Post-2015 Development Agenda and HRC/UPR processes, as well as exploring feminist strategies to proactively demand structural transformations while defending our bodily and territorial rights.
Organized by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), in collaboration with The Global Fund for Women
Get more information on CSW57 at the UN Women website.
