CSW62 side event: Launch of ‘A practitioner’s toolkit on women’s access to justice programming’

Under the priority theme: “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls”, the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 62) will launch a “Practitioner’s toolkit on women’s access to justice”, produced under the overall coordination of UN Women, and in collaboration with UNDP, OHCHR and UNODC.

Date: Thursday, 22 March 2018, 10–11.15 a.m. EDT
Location: Conference Room D, UN Conference Building, UN Headquarters, New York, NY 10017. Enter through the Visitors’ Entrance on 1st Avenue and 46th Street.

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Moderator: Ms. Laura Neuman, Director, Global Access to Information Program, The Carter Center

Panellists:

• Nicole Ameline, Member, CEDAW Committee (keynote speaker)
• Yannick Glemarec, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
• Patrick Keuleers, Director, Governance and Peacebuilding, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP
• Craig Mokhiber, Director, New York Office, OHCHR
• Matteo Pasquali, Deputy Representative, New York Office, UNODC
• Alejandro Alvarez, Chief, Rule of Law Unit, Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary General
• Sam Grout-Smith, First Secretary, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian, Human Rights and Migration, UK Permanent Mission to the United Nations
• Ms. Karina Gerlach, Senior Program Advisor, NYU and Pathfinder’s Initiative, CIC