violence against women

The Changing Face of Violence Against Women

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Briefing on the EDVAW Platform: The Platform of International and REgional Mechanisms on Discrimination and Violence Against Womenj

Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Time: 9am -12pm EST Find your timezone here.

This briefing aims at raising awareness of the EDVAW Platform which is made up of the following expert mechanisms:

This briefing will provide information on how civil society actors  can engage with these mechanisms both in the context of  CSW and beyond. The briefing will also be an opportunity to exchange views with some of the experts.

The second part of the program will consist of regional break-out groups.

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Please note that this meeting will be in English. However, the recording will be available with subtitles in the 6 UN languages on our Youtube channel.

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CoNGO Notes: For information about collaborative work of NGOs on the issues above and related matters, visit the substantive committees related to CoNGO. Visit here for specific information about the NGO Committee on Status of Women/New York, NGO Committee on Status of Women Vienna, and the NGO Committee on Status of Women Geneva.

Briefing on the EDVAW Platform: The Platform of International and REgional Mechanisms on Discrimination and Violence Against Womenj

Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Time: 9am -12pm EST Find your timezone here.

This briefing aims at raising awareness of the EDVAW Platform which is made up of the following expert mechanisms:

This briefing will provide information on how civil society actors  can engage with these mechanisms both in the context of  CSW and beyond. The briefing will also be an opportunity to exchange views with some of the experts.

The second part of the program will consist of regional break-out groups.

Register here
Please note that this meeting will be in English. However, the recording will be available with subtitles in the 6 UN languages on our Youtube channel.

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CoNGO Notes: For information about collaborative work of NGOs on the issues above and related matters, visit the substantive committees related to CoNGO. Visit here for specific information about the NGO Committee on Status of Women/New York, NGO Committee on Status of Women Vienna, and the NGO Committee on Status of Women Geneva.

VAWG and COVID-19: Policies and Practices needed to build back better

VAWG and COVID-19: Policies & Practices needed to build back better

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This webinar’s panel of experts includes Dubravka Šimonovic (UN Special Rapporteur on VAW), Diana Arango (Senior Gender-Based Violence Specialist, World Bank), Hilary Gbedemah (Member and Immediate Past Chair of UN CEDAW Committee), Hyeshin Park (Economist, Gender Programme Coordinator, OECD), Grizelda Grootbroom (Director of Survivor Exit Foundation and a survivor-turned-activist helping survivors of the sex trade) and Mohinder Watson (Founder Action on Child, Early and Forced Marriage and a survivor-advocate working against forced marriage and honour based violence). The panel will be moderated by Linda Liu (Vice-President, ICW-CIF).

The panel will present current policies, measures, and best practices to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls as we build back better, as well as provide personal insights from two survivor advocates – one related to the sex trade and the other on forced marriage and honour based violence.

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CoNGO Notes: For more information on the NGO Committee on the Status of Women-NY, please visit ngocsw.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on the Status of Women-Vienna, please visit ngocswvienna.org.  For more information on the NGO Committee on the Status of Women-Geneva, please visit ngocsw-geneva.ch. For more information on the NGO Committee for Rare Diseases, please visit ngocommitteerarediseases.org.

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