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CSW67 | IDLO at the Commission on the Status of Women

The sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 6 to 17 March 2023.

Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are invited to contribute to the session.

  • Priority theme: Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls
  • Review theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-second session

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OUR SIDE EVENTS

Survivor-Centred Justice for Gender-Based Violence in Complex Situations

13 March 2023 | 6:30 - 7:45 PM CET
New York | United Nations Headquarters (Conference Room B)

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Women at the Forefront of Justice Delivery

14 March 2023 | 6:30 - 7:45 PM CET
New York | United Nations Headquarters (Conference Room B)

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OUR GENDER WORK

Survivor-Centred Justice for Gender-Based Violence in Complex Situations

The report Survivor-Centred Justice for Gender-Based Violence in Complex Situations is the result of new research conducted by IDLO, in partnership with the Global Women’s Institute at George Washington University, in six countries across the globe with the aim to identify approaches that centre survivors in all efforts to address gender-based violence (GBV) in complex situations. The report is informed by country case studies in Afghanistan, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, the...

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Strengthening Gender Equality in Law: Mapping and Analysis of Sierra Leone’s Legal Landscape

Laws that discriminate against women and girls drive the systemic denial of their human rights and block their advancement and empowerment. They prevent women and girls from accessing resources, opportunities and rights. When women and girls can live free from discrimination, with laws that protect their human rights, they realize their full potential and society benefits as a whole. In support of the ‘Equality in Law for Women and Girls By 2030: A Multi-Stakeholder Strategy for Accelerated...

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Climate Justice for Women and Girls: A Rule of Law Approach to Feminist Climate Action

Women and girls have the right to effectively participate in and lead efforts to achieve climate justice. An explicitly feminist approach to climate change, based on the rule of law, is needed to ensure women’s inclusion in decision-making processes related to climate governance, equal access to justice, resolution of conflict over natural resources, and the enactment of inclusive and effective climate laws and policies. IDLO’s Policy Brief Climate Justice for Women and Girls: A Rule of Law...

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