Events to be listed on events calendar page(s)
As part of the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Musawah has organized an event on the disconnect between law and reality concerning women.
Topics discussed will include:
As part of the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women musawah has organised an event on egalitarian marriage in Muslim contexts.
This event is co-sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and UN Women-Arab States.
Topics discussed will include:
Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls in Peacebuilding: What do we know?
Tuesday, 14 March, 11.30am – 12.45pm
While there has been growing attention to violence against women and girls (VAWG) during conflict, there has been far less attention to women and girls’ experiences of violence following periods of conflict. The post-conflict context poses particular challenges, including the need for attention to the relationship between violence before and during conflict and to how post-conflict violence should be addressed within and through peacebuilding measures. This panel will share current research on the complex relationship between VAWG and post-conflict peace and peacebuilding.
What Difference Does Peace Make: Findings from a Study on Domestic Violence During and After the Conflict in Northern Ireland
Prof. Monica Mc Williams, Professor of Women’s Studies, Ulster University
Exploring the intersection of VAWG with post-conflict state building and peacebuilding processes
Dr. Manuel Contreras-Urbina, Director of Research,
Global Women’s Institute, George Washington University
Identifying Connections and Distinctions in Conflict-related Violence Against Women: Implications for Peacebuilding Measures
Dr. Aisling Swaine, Associate Professor and Director of Center on Gender Equality in International Affairs, George Washington University
Lessons on VAWG and Peacebuilding from The Global Study on Implementation of Resolution 1325 (2000)
Emily Kenney, Policy Analyst, Peace and Security, UN Women
Co-sponsors: Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations; George Washington University’s Global Women’s Institute and Center for Gender Equality in International Affairs.
Due Diligence Project and the Association for Progressive Communications invite you to a CSW61 parallel event on Women’s Access to the Internet.
13th March 2017 at 2:30pm.
Online violence is one of the key barriers to women’s meaningful access to the internet and affects their active participation in social and economic life. We will explore an accountability framework for States and internet intermediaries to end online violence against women.
Panellists:
David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Expression
Dubravka Simonovic, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences (Statement)
Zarizana Abdul Aziz, Due Diligence Project
Dafne Sabanes Plou, Association for Progressive Communications
Roundtable at CSW61: Strategies for Advocacy and Engagement with Relevant Stakeholders at the UN
March 16th 2017, 1:15 – 2:45pm
In September 2015, several faith-based organizations, academics, and other civil society actors came together to form a Working Group on Faith and Feminism.
By engaging individuals, communities, and organizations—including the United Nations—the Group seeks to create an innovative and impactful discourse to transform the structures and attitudes that sustain gender inequality. Recognizing the importance of engaging all relevant stakeholders in transforming misogynistic religious and cultural narratives—especially those working in local and national contexts—the Group wishes to invite interested individuals and organizations who will be attending CSW61 to a roundtable discussion.
Dr. Karima Bennoune, Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights will present her work on substantive issues regarding the detrimental effect that religious and cultural fundamentalisms have on the realization of gender equality and women’s empowerment and will speak to the importance of addressing such fundamentalisms within UN institutions.
The roundtable will seek to facilitate sharing of effective advocacy strategies from participants at local and national levels, and discussion of the potential for the Group to serve as a vehicle to bridge the gap between local activism and international advocacy.
The following questions will be posed to participants to facilitate dialogue during the roundtable:
● To what extent do religious or cultural fundamentalisms affect the work and advocacy you do at the national level and within local communities?
● Does engagement with UN policy processes such as the CSW benefit your work at the national level and within local communities? If so, could you provide some examples or case studies that highlight how engagement with the UN has benefitted your work?
● Do you see merit in collaborating with and actively engaging the Working Group on Faith and Feminism moving forward? Do you think the Group can assist you in your work at the UN, and if so, how?
The roundtable will include only civil society actors to foster fruitful and purposeful conversation with the intent to raise awareness of the Group’s work to potential new members. We look forward to the participation of all individuals and organizations!
The 50th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development will be held from 3 to 7 April 2017.
Chairperson:
Ms. Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani (Qatar) – Asia-Pacific Group
Vice-Chairpersons:
Mr. Lewis G. Brown (Liberia) (designate) – African Group
Ms. Cristina Popescu (Romania) (designate) – Eastern-European Group
Ms. Nicola Barker-Murphy (Jamaica) (designate) – Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Ms. Eleonora van Munster (Netherlands) – Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Agenda Items
This event will explore recent developments on the right to Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) from the perspective of States, youth led civil society, UN agencies and UN Human Rights mechanisms.
Participants will gain a broader understanding of State obligations to provide CSE that is accessible to all children, adolescents and young people, including those with disabilities, and how the Human Rights Council can support the implementation of CSE within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
A discussion of the report by the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.
In her second report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/34/56), the Special Rapporteur considers how the rise of fundamentalism and extremism, in diverse forms, represents major threats to human rights worldwide and a growing challenge that must be faced with urgency, using a human rights approach. The report maps how such threats gravely undermine the enjoyment of cultural rights and stresses the centrality of cultural rights in combating them.
The event is hosted by the UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights, Freemuse, Muslims for Progressive Values, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), and the Centre for Inquiry.
Speakers will include
The discussion will be moderated by Ms Ani Zonneveld (Muslims for Progressive Values).
The 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place between March 13th and March 24th 2017.
Priority theme: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.
Review theme: Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls, from the 58th session of the CSW.
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. A functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), it was established on 21 June 1946.
The 34th regular session of the Human Rights Council will take place between 27th February and 24th March 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations. It has the ability to discuss all thematic human rights issues and situations that require its attention throughout the year. It meets at the UN Office at Geneva.
The Council is made up of 47 United Nations Member States which are elected by the UN General Assembly. The Human Rights Council replaced the former United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
