GFW Grantees Participate Actively At UN Commission On The Status of Women Meeting
March 3, 2009
The 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets this week (March 2-13, 2009) in New York. The CSW is a powerful platform for women activists to be heard and to promote feminist perceptions of the struggle for gender equality and the advancement of women. Among the partner members and participating and presenting are Global Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood (GROOTS) International, and the International Federation of Women Lawyers-FIDA, both based in Kenya.
During two weeks, over 100 women's rights groups from around the world deliberate with representatives of governments and hold discussions with other regional NGOs to plan long-term strategies. The Annual Meeting of the UN CSW serves to focus on assessing the level of implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action globally. The priority theme of CSW 2009 is “The Equal Sharing of Responsibilities between Women and Men, including Caregiving in the Context of AIDS.”
Government sessions run parallel to NGO sessions where women activists bring diverse viewpoints to push the women’s rights agenda forward. The formal government sessions include a report by the UN Secretary-General on the priority theme, expert group meetings, and interactive expert panels on areas such “Capacity-building for mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development, implementation and evaluation of national economic policies and programmes and budgets.” The NGO Caucus makes an intervention during government sessions. Furthermore, civil society groups take advantage of CSW to network and form strategic alliances during the parallel events that on the whole contribute to movement-building globally. For African women activists, the CSW has therefore become a powerful platform to raise their voices and to promote an African paradigm of the struggle for gender equality and the advancement of women.
The session will be attended by representatives of member states, UN entities and by ECOSOC-accredited NGOs from all over the world. Find out more.
March 3, 2009
The 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets this week (March 2-13, 2009) in New York. The CSW is a powerful platform for women activists to be heard and to promote feminist perceptions of the struggle for gender equality and the advancement of women. Among the partner members and participating and presenting are Global Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood (GROOTS) International, and the International Federation of Women Lawyers-FIDA, both based in Kenya.
During two weeks, over 100 women's rights groups from around the world deliberate with representatives of governments and hold discussions with other regional NGOs to plan long-term strategies. The Annual Meeting of the UN CSW serves to focus on assessing the level of implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action globally. The priority theme of CSW 2009 is “The Equal Sharing of Responsibilities between Women and Men, including Caregiving in the Context of AIDS.”
Government sessions run parallel to NGO sessions where women activists bring diverse viewpoints to push the women’s rights agenda forward. The formal government sessions include a report by the UN Secretary-General on the priority theme, expert group meetings, and interactive expert panels on areas such “Capacity-building for mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development, implementation and evaluation of national economic policies and programmes and budgets.” The NGO Caucus makes an intervention during government sessions. Furthermore, civil society groups take advantage of CSW to network and form strategic alliances during the parallel events that on the whole contribute to movement-building globally. For African women activists, the CSW has therefore become a powerful platform to raise their voices and to promote an African paradigm of the struggle for gender equality and the advancement of women.
The session will be attended by representatives of member states, UN entities and by ECOSOC-accredited NGOs from all over the world. Find out more.
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