CSW67 Side Event Schedule

Contact: maria.salamanca@unwomen.org

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PUSHING BACK THE PUSH-BACK
Nordic solutions to online gender-based violence
Welcome to this CSW67 event where Nordic gender equality ministers share Nordic solutions to make the digital world safer for all. The Nordic countries are ready to push back the opposition to gender equality!
The Nordic countries are among the most digitized in the world, a superpower to promote a diversity of voices. But when digitalization helps expand a growing resistance to gender equality, we must act. The Nordic region is unlike any other when it comes to providing a swift political response to online gender-based violence.
Moderator:
Dr. María Rún Bjarnadóttir, Director for Internet Safety at the Icelandic National Commissioner for Police
Panelists:
Ms. Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister, Iceland
Ms. Paulina Brandberg, Minister for Gender Equality and Deputy Minister for Employment, Sweden
Ms. Naaja H. Nathanielsen, Minister of Finance and Gender Equality, Greenland
Ms. Sirið Stenberg, Minister of Social Affairs and Culture, Faroe Islands
Ms. Marie Bjerre, Minister for Digital Government and Gender Equality, Denmark
Mr. Thomas Blomqvist, Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Equality, Finland
Ms. Gry Haugsbakken, State Secretary, Ministry of Culture and Equality, Norway

Contact: armenia@missionun.org

Contact: l.post@minocw.nl

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Contact: fegc.ccfnu-uncsw.wage@fegc-wage.gc.ca

Contact: info@nclw.gov.lb

Contact: rania.ary23@gmail.com

Welcome to join the High Level launch of Ukraine's updated National Action Plan for Women Peace and Security. In this moderated discussion, the Ukrainian Gender Commissionary and deputy Ministers for Social Policy and Economy present the updated NAP for 1325 to better reflect the reality of the country since the Russian full-scale invasion of Februari 2022. Ukrainian civil society representatives will discuss the implementation of the plan. Ministers from Liberia, Sweden, Norway and Spain as well as UNWomen's Deputy Director will discuss how the international community can ensure that the WPS-agenda is at the center of the reconstruction of Ukraine. 

Please note that for non-secondary pass holders the Trusteeship Council Chamber can only be accessed from the third floor. 

Registration not required but recommended.

Contact: Majda MOUTCHOU (Mrs.) Minister Plenipotentiary - Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations - Phone: +1 212 421 1580 Fax : +1 212 980 1512 - Email: morocco.un@maec.gov.ma

Contact: e.lamm@unesco.org

Contact: bosomtwiy@who.int

Co-organised by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), UN Women, International Labor Organization (ILO), Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM), Korea Women’s Association United (KWAU) and the Permanent Mission of Fiji, this side-event aims to discuss and interrogate the realities and the impact of 'digital transformation' on women in Asia and the Pacific and to take stock of the situation with regards to gender-based violence in digital spaces and the gendered impact of digitalisation on labour rights  of women and girls. It also aims to provide concrete policy recommendations for a human rights-based and gender-responsive digital initiatives and policies that ensures safety and security of women and girls in virtual platforms and to address sexual and gendered cyber violence, harassment and abuse in an effective manner. 

Interpretation will be available in: Bahasa Indonesia, French, Russian and Spanish

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WHO, in partnership with the Republics of Rwanda and Chile, will convene a panel discussion on the gains in women's health outcomes due to digital innovation, tehnology and education. The panel will discuss concrete - through country examples - advancements in women's health that have resulted from specific innovations in health, particularly focused on women and girls facing compounding barriers to health and well-being, and therefore at highest risk of being marginalized. Interpretation in English and Spanish will be available.

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Contact: SPCIM@oas.org

Contact: sec.italyun@esteri.it

Contact: robin-de.vogel@minbuza.nl

The main theme of CSW67 focuses on Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. This formal side event will focus on sharing success stories and lessons learned of feminist online organising by structurally excluded communities. The larger framework of the side event will be identifying how governments and the UN can protect and support movements better in the digital era.

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The event aims to inform the preparation of a Global Digital Compact, to be adopted at the 2024 Summit of the Future, aiming to “outline shared principles for an open, free and secure digital future for all”. Ways to ensure a strong and integrated gender dimension throughout the Global Digital Compact will be explored, in line with priorities of the European Union on gender mainstreaming and the digital transition. This interactive high-level event, hosted by the European Commission Vice-President Jourova and Swedish Minister Brandberg, hosts a range of speakers from UN, UN Member States in different regions, the European Parliament, civil society and private sector

Contact: newyork@nje.go.tz

By invitation only.

Contact: mgn@ipu.org; gender@ipu.org; mdm@ipu.org

The joint IPU – UN Women Parliamentary Meeting “The role of parliaments in advancing gender equality through technology” will aim to showcase and further strengthen parliamentary engagement in harnessing technology to advance gender equality both in society and within their institution. It will also provide an opportunity for legislators worldwide to bring a parliamentary perspective into the CSW 67 discussions.

Members of Parliament from around the world will share good practices for empowering women and girls through technology, removing structural obstacles that hinder women’s access to and use of technology and addressing risks such as technology-facilitated violence against women and girls. Participants will also exchange with their peers and experts on how to deepen their work in these areas. Discussions will include ways of harnessing the potential of technology to make parliament’s working modalities ever more inclusive and gender-sensitive.

(en français)
La réunion organisée conjointement par l’Union interparlementaire et ONU Femmes intitulée « Le rôle des parlements dans la promotion de l’égalité des sexes grâce à la technologie » visera à mettre en valeur et à renforcer davantage l'engagement parlementaire dans l'exploitation de la technologie pour faire progresser l'égalité des sexes à la fois dans la société et au sein de leur institution. Ce sera également l'occasion pour les législateurs du monde entier d'apporter une perspective parlementaire aux discussions de la CCF67.

Des parlementaires du monde entier partageront de bonnes pratiques pour autonomiser les femmes et les filles grâce à la technologie, éliminer les obstacles structurels qui entravent l'accès et l'utilisation de la technologie par les femmes et lutter contre les risques tels que la violence à l'encontre des femmes et des filles facilitée par la technologie. Les participants échangeront également avec leurs pairs et experts sur la manière d'approfondir leur travail dans ces domaines. Les discussions porteront sur les moyens d'exploiter le potentiel de la technologie pour rendre les modalités de travail du parlement toujours plus inclusives et sensibles au genre.

Open event

Interpretation available in Arabic, English, French, Italian, Korean and Spanish.

No restriction for size of delegations

No reserved seats (except on the podium and seats for the Secretariat)

Contact: zixwang1992@gmail.com；Hanne.CARLE@eeas.europa.eu

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Contact: gender.equality@coe.int

This side-event will highlight the challenges and specific needs of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls, and will outline the existing legal framework, providing useful guidance. It will offer an opportunity to exchange on experience and practical solutions to improve the situation of women and girls on the ground, whether in their country of origin, during the journey, or upon arrival.

The war in Ukraine has made it clearer than ever that women and girls are disproportionately affected by crises. The conflict has had a very negative impact on migrant and refugee women, including when it comes to different forms of gender-based violence and human trafficking. The event will therefore explore the whys and hows of gender-sensitive migration (and other) crisis management.

Bringing together international partners and relevant civil society representatives, the event will foster an understanding of how gender aspects intersect with migration and will promote gender equality and human dignity.

Note: This is an open event and it will be live streamed online.

Contact: hungaryun.ny@mfa.gov.hu

Women worldwide continue to undertake the majority of unpaid care, especially in the first months and years of childrearing, which period is also critical for healthy early childhood development. Therefore, Member States have an important role to play in providing inclusive, gender-responsive family-friendly social protection policies and public services to all families - and especially to all women -, to support them in this challenging time, such as paid parental leave and quality, affordable and accessible childcare. Supporting the development of parenting skills for both parents also contributes to positive outcomes for children and caregivers, and it also contributes to gender equality. 

The event will showcase how successful social policies and programs in this field contribute to gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, with special regard to women in vulnerable situations, such as women living in poverty and in rural areas, and women belonging to minorities. It will highlight the work of Member States from different regions of the world, as well as civil society partners and international organisations.

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Contact: czechdelegation.csw@vlada.cz

While the COVID-19 pandemic slowed down global movement including international migration, in 2022 the Russian aggression has caused one the most massive refugee and humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II with 5 million refugees across OECD countries. However, the World has faced multiple significant refugee crises in recent years with millions of displaced people.

Female refugees, and asylum seekers, particularly those arriving with children, face many obstacles in different areas, including housing, training and language courses, labour market, childcare, and healthcare.

Since the end of the Second World War and especially in the post-Cold War era, NGOs have become key players in asylum policy. Working directly in the field NGOs firstly distribute basic goods such as water, food and shelter, secondly provide legal and psycho-social counselling to access rights guaranteed by the state and thirdly create new social spaces. On the national level, NGOs also participate in policy-making which provides instrumental benefits through evidence base for policy decisions, reduced implementation costs, potential for innovation, increased competence and greater trust in government.

 What have been NGOs doing to support female refugees and asylum seekers to integrate in their host countries and reach their full potential?

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Contact: tarac@spc.int

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This event will address the challenges around women’s participation, retention and leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) industries. As STEM skills become the foundation of the global clean energy transition, the event will discuss how we can prevent this gender segregation from enduring in emerging green job markets. 

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Contact: Ms. Simonetta Zarrilli Chief, Trade, Gender and Development Programme Division on International Trade and Commodities , UNCTAD e-mail: gender@un.org

Creating an enabling environment for digitalization and digital trade is an important component of policymaking. The shift to digitalization holds the potential to improve productivity, sustainability, and resilience in many economic sectors, with expected benefits for all countries but particularly for developing countries.

For small-scale women entrepreneurs, digitalization and e-commerce can represent an important opportunity for economic progress and empowerment. However, digital gender divides persist. Lack of digital literacy, inadequate understanding of the benefits of Internet usage, lack of access to appropriate devices, lack of relevant content in accessible languages on the Internet, as well as high costs are the main reasons for the limited adoption of new technologies by women. Gender digital gaps risk reinforcing and accentuating the pre-existing gender gaps in society and in the economy.

The side event will discuss opportunities, bottlenecks and key strategic interventions at the international and domestic levels that would enable women to benefit further from the digital revolution and enhance their participation in trade. It will also look at data needs in support of sound policymaking in this direction.

Moderator

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO / Founder, Women at the Table

Speakers

Alejandro Buvinic, Head of Services, Investment and Digital Economy Division, Undersecretariat of International Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile

Simonetta Zarrilli, Chief, Trade, Gender and Development Programme, UNCTAD

Fernanda Contreras Stange, Head of Studio of Gamaga by Kongregate, Chile

Contact: passmoorj@dirco.gov.za

The discussion will focus on the realization of women’s economic rights in this changing landscape. Underpinned by work on financial inclusion and the recognition of how gender-responsive access to finance and financial services are important facilitators of women’s economic empowerment, autonomy and financial independence with potential to influence the shifting of gender norms and women’s participation in the workforce. 

Contact: Majda MOUTCHOU (Mrs.) Minister Plenipotentiary -Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations- Phone: +1 212 421 1580 -Fax : +1 212 980 1512- Email: morocco.un@maec.gov.ma

Contact: info@wefargentina.org

Mujeres y niñas en tecnología e innovación. Brechas Digitales. Violencia Digital
Lugar: Consulado Argentino en Nueva York
Dia: Martes 7-3-2023
Hora: 15 a 16.15 hs
Inscripción: www.wefargentina.org

Although women in the Nordic countries have high levels of education and labour market participation, this does not automatically translate into gender equality in pensions. Efforts to promote equal pay and shared parental leave have taken us far in ensuring women’s economic empowerment in retirement. How do we also design pension systems that promote gender equality? New Nordic research shows that multiple potential strategies and concrete measures exist to reduce the pension gap in the short term.

Moderator:

Karen Ellemann, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Minister

Panelists:

Kristina Háfoss Secretary General of the Nordic Council

Clara Berglund Secretary General, The Swedish Women’s Lobby

Chidi King Gender Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Branch Chief, International Labour Organization

Eva Lindh Chair, Nordic Council Welfare Committee, MP Sweden

Jóhanna Lind Elíasdóttir Specialist, Ministry for Social Affairs & Labour, Iceland

Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen Vice-Chair, Nordic Council Welfare Committee, MP Norway 

Contact: Rachel Tavernor Rachel.tavernor@actalliance.org

This side event will bring together speakers from the UN, private sector, faith actors and other civil society actors to discuss the relationship between gender, religion, and human rights in the context of science, innovation, and digital technologies. The event aims to address the backlashes against gender justice and to reimagine the role of faith and technology in creating more inclusive societies. Recommendations for change will focus on transforming societal norms, creating inclusive policies, promoting Comprehensive Sexuality Education, and ensuring the safety of human rights defenders.

Contact: lenka.simerska@mpsv.cz, CSWpaytransparency@mpsv.cz

Contact: patricia.herdt@francophonie.org

Addressing widowhood is critical to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Disinheritance, discrimination, and harmful practices endured by widows in some parts of the world directly link widowhood and poverty (SDG 1), as well as have direct and indirect linkages with most of the other SDGs.

Drawing on experiences from Costa Rica, Kenya, Malawi, Poland and South Africa, panelists in this side event will reveal the issue of widowhood in the rural context and underscore the link between widowhood, disinheritance, and poverty.

More on “Behind the Rage: America’s Domestic Violence”: In “Behind the Rage” (2022), women’s rights activist and director Deeyah Khan explores the American epidemic of domestic violence against women. Through interviews with men who perpetrate these crimes, Khan asks if—behind the rage—rehabilitation and change is possible.

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Contact: mosany886@gmail.com

This event is an innovative fashion show by Claudia Wang which highlights diverse technological development and gender equality.

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With women representing only 20% of the space workforce and 11% of people who travelled to outer space, closing the gender gap in space throughout the cycle of education and employment is a key prerequisite for inclusive social, economic and technological transformations. Moreover, the technologies and applications of the space sector must also be responsive to the needs of women and girls and achieved by taking a gender lens across this work. Taking action on both these fronts will help to ensure a sustainable future where women and girls can fully realize their rights and be leaders. During the side event space experts will discuss how space technology and innovation can empower women and how to make the space sector more inclusive.

Please register here for the event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScra59hOuBZM1Cw81uCfUaF9VrJtF6IVUdc_bo_Pniod0F94A/viewform

Contact: jiso.yoon@kwdimail.re.kr

Innovation and technological change can contribute greatly to improving the well-being, education, and livelihoods of women and girls worldwide. Digital technologies can expand women's economic opportunities by opening possibilities for employment and business through increased access to information, education and skills. Digital access can also raise awareness of women and girls of their rights and empower them to express ideas and engage in civic activities. In this regard, innovation and technological change is ultimately linked to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

While the digital revolution provides immense opportunities for women's economic and social empowerment, existing structural inequalities and deep-rooted gender stereotypes prevent women from harnessing these benefits and create new challenges. A significant digital gender gap still remains --the proportion of women using the Internet globally is 48 percent, compared to 58 percent of men. While technology and digitalization are transforming the economy, women face difficulties in seeking new opportunities in the changing environment, and women in clerical and service work face a greater risk of job loss due to automation. Women are more likely to be affected by online and technology-facilitated gender-based violence (i.e., stalking, digital financial abuse, verbal abuse) than men. As a result, women are prevented from being connected, and taking full advantage of education and economic opportunities.

What are the gendered impacts of innovation, technology and education in the digital age, and what can be done to build a more gender equal future? The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Korean Women’s Development Institute of the Republic of Korea would like to co-host a side event at the 67th CSW in 2023 in line with the priority theme “Innovation and Technological Change, and Education in the Digital Age for Achieving Gender Equality and the Empowerment of all Women and Girls.” This side event aims to share South Korea's experience as one of the global leaders in digitalization, enjoying the benefits of technological advancements, yet struggling to address major challenges. Furthermore, the event will bring together national policymakers, NGOs, researchers, business leaders, and UN representatives from around the world to share similar experiences, and find effective solutions so that digital transformation can be both inclusive and empowering for women and girls.

Contact: win@osce.org

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by war and conflict. Digitalisation can offer new opportunities and support the economic empowerment of women affected by conflict. Digital tools are also critical for information on services, cash transfers and education. But there is no one size fits all: The female refugee population within and between countries of origin ranges from highly skilled in ICT to digital illiterates. Different types of empowerment are needed.

Building on evidence from war and conflict across the OSCE region and its partner countries, this high-level side event at CSW67 brings together representatives of international organizations, governments, the private tech sector and civil society to highlight how digital tools can successfully enable the empowerment of women affected by war. The event intends to:  

1. Showcase successful examples of digital services that women from and within conflict countries can benefit from;

2. Provide concrete policy recommendations for the design of effective programmatic actions to support women in volatile settings;

3. Support the Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality Action Coalition (TIGE) partners to jointly advocate for equal digital rights and opportunities; 

The event is hosted by the OSCE Gender Issues Programme, UN Women and the Government of Finland as part of their commitment to make technology and innovation gender equal and mobilize other partners to join the Action Coalition on Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality within the Generation Equality framework.

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Contact: Ilias Trochidis gender@ipu.org

No interpretation available in the Conference Room B - debate to be held in English only.

Contact: Nazik Moldotasheva, n.moldotasheva@gmail.com

Contact: Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia Tel: +1(212)557-1525 - Email: thirdcommittee@ksamission-gov.nt

No one can deny the impact of science, technology and innovation in various aspects of our lives, ranging from personal well-being, to education and participation, and environment and social life. Bringing access and participation of women in STEM fields is important, as it will not only help improve their daily lives, but will also be the source of radical change and paradigm shift.    

An exchange of views with experts from different different entites and international organizations on means and challenges towards digital transformation and innovation from inclusiveness to sustainability.

Participants:
Moderator: Secretary General of the Family Affairs Council
Speakers are representatives of the following entities:

• National Cybersecurity Authority of Saudi Arabia
• Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
• Salam Project for Cultural Communication (Youth Representative)
• Artificial Intelligence Society (CSO Representative)
• ITU
• UNSG’s Envoy on Technology
• UN Women

The event will discuss the empowerment of women in the economic world and its impact on realizing women's rights and achieving gender equality in the Arab region.

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Contact: gender@commonwealth.int

The event will highlight the ongoing work around bridging the digital divide as a driver of women’s economic empowerment. The discussion will focus on good practices and emerging challenges in relation to advancing digital gender equality.

The Nordic and Baltic regions are two of the most digitalised regions in the world. In recent years, the countries have been quick to respond to online gender-based violence. However, hate and violence are always finding new outlets, with society's response one step behind. So, what are the blind spots in the prevention of technology-facilitated gender-based violence from the perspective of researchers, civil society, and those most affected?

Contact: czechdelegation.csw@vlada.cz

Contact: slomission.newyork@gov.si

This side event will focus on strategies and tools for improving gender-disaggregated data and information for more effective and inclusive policies and programming of natural resources management, focusing on water and land. It will discuss strategic approaches for improving skills and enhancing capacity in data collection both at the level of technicians and at local level of resource users with focus on capacity development of rural women as resource managers. The on-site event will be held in a format of interactive roundtable discussion. Register here.

Contact: alexandra.trant@ext.eeas.europa.eu

Contact: alissa.frenkel@giz.de

Contact: 9172874216

Contact: rotane.khaled@francophonie.org

Contact: imanuel@indonesiaun.org

Contact: vlombeh@pmun.gov.lr

Contact: events@newy.diplo.de

Contact: ala.vechiu@odihr.pl

Research has consistently shown that human traffickers exploits people who are in positions of vulnerability and technology has become an increasingly used tool for traffickers. It is widely acknowledged that women and girls constitute the majority of detected victims of trafficking in persons. Gender- and age-related factors in contexts of inequality, violence and discrimination play a role in contributing to vulnerabilities of women and girls to this crime. The COVID-19 pandemic, among other socio-economic challenges, has led to strain of public health and social protection systems, further exposing many people to traffickers who exploit people in vulnerable situations for their personal gain, particularly online. Vulnerability to trafficking is also, in some cases, compounded by the adverse effects of global environmental change, as well as other factors such as poverty, economic collapse and conflict. OSCE/ ODIHR has developed policy guidance, which includes recommendations on technological challenges and solutions in combatting trafficking of women and girls in overlapping emergencies, in its updated National Referral Mechanism Handbook. Joining Efforts to Protect the Rights of Trafficked Persons: A Practical Handbook (NRM Handbook), which also analyses technology related trafficking challenges and solutions. ODIHR also recently launched a fact sheet on a Survey on the Safety and Security of Women Refugees from Ukraine. In 2020, the joint OSCE/ODIHR and UN Women report on Addressing Emerging Human Trafficking Trends and Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic will contribute to the scope of the discussion. Further, in line with ODIHR’s efforts to promote the inclusion of survivors’ voices and perspectives as a core practice for the design and implementation of anti-trafficking responses, this side event will be informed by the expertise of a survivor leader.

Objectives:

The event will aim to:

• Raise awareness and facilitate discussion about the use of technologies, both by traffickers and for the investigation and prevention of trafficking of women and girls;
• Inclusion of voices of survivors of trafficking

UN Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with United Voices 4 Peace present

“Global Women in Music”
Special concert celebrating the International Women’s Day

8 March 2023 at 7:30
at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Centre
199 Chambers Street, New York

Special guest conductor: Anoa Green (USA)

On the programme:

Works by ten women composers

Louise Farrenc (France)
Souad Bushnaq (Syria)
Bora Yoon (Korea/USA)
Maria Brodskaya (Ukraine)
Lucía Caruso (Argentina)
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph (South Africa)
Zhang Haihui (China)
Sussan Deyhim (Iran)
Angelica Negron (Puerto Rico/USA)
Florence Price (USA)

In 2021, on the concert programmes of the major world symphony orchestras, only 5.1% of compositions were by women composers. For many decades, women composers were nearly half of graduating classes at composition departments of major music conservatoires around the world, but the major orchestras still rarely feature their works.

The UN Symphony Orchestra will showcase diverse works by women composers from around the world. Our goal is to raise awareness of this issue and inspire change.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.unorchestra.org/tickets/.

Come and show your support for this worthy initiative!

Although the primary responsibility for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lies at the country level, higher education institutions (HEIs) in the respective countries are well placed to make a significant contribution to the 2030 Agenda. Enrolment in higher education institutions around the world, including in Africa, has been growing more rapidly than ever in recent years. HEIs have played an increasingly influential role in national and world affairs as they have expanded in number and outreach. However, this expansion is also presenting national governments with multiple challenges relating to the inclusion of women in HEIs and their full and sustainable participation in the tertiary education sector.

A background study is being done, via a survey and desktop study, in 9 countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,  Zambia and Zimbabwe) to determine the role that women in HE currently play in the education systems. The event will discuss the results of the survey in these 9 countries ultimately to enhance capacities of African higher education institutions to support women participation in their systems.

There will be the participation of high-level delegates and women in this area to discuss the significance of these results for women in HE and STEM in their countries and what we could do to improve and increase the participation of women in these education systems.

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Contact: gender-coordinator@unido.org

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Technology and innovation has an enormous potential for mitigating the climate and environmental crisis, combatting various forms of inequality, and accelerating progress in key areas of human development, including decent education and affordable healthcare for all. However, gender-specific limitations for women in access to networks, markets and job opportunities, as well as discriminatory social norms, remain major impediments for gender equality in the technologies and industries of tomorrow.

This spotlight session will discuss findings, strategies and good practices on applying a transformative gender-mainstreaming approach in UNIDO-supported initiatives. Kindly see the concept note for further details.

Please feel free to share this invitation widely in your networks.

We hope to see you there!

The UNIDO Gender Unit

Contact: Dr. Rachel M Tavernor, rachel.tavernor@actalliance.org

The EQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age or EQUALS, which consists of more than 100 partners from across the public and private sector, is working to ensure that everyone, everywhere, benefits equally from the power of digital technologies. As such projects and initiatives to bridge the digital gender divide sit at the core of its mission and the work of partners. Some of its most prominent projects which showcase the power of public private partnerships to advance digital gender inclusions include the EQUALS Her Digital Skills initiative co-founded by GSMA, ITU, W4 and EY which aims to deliver gender transformative digital skills training and mentoring opportunities to 1 million girls and young women by 2026. 

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as a co-founder of EQUALS, launched the  Girls in ICT Day initiative more than ten years ago, with this year’s theme on Digital Skills for Life,  as to inspire and equip girls with the skills they need to follow their dream STEM careers.  Moreover, ITU’s flagship initiative on youth, Generation Connect, aims to engage global youth and encourage their participation as equal partners alongside the leaders of today’s digital change, empowering young people with the skills and opportunities to advance their vision of a connected future.

This panel session will examine the root causes of the digital skills gap and will also propose concrete actions, drawing on the above-mentioned efforts, that stakeholders can undertake and implement to make sure girls and women are equipped with the necessary digital skills for life and becoming both ICT users and creators in the digital world and STEM fields.

Contact: Myan Tantawy - UAE Mission - +19293052410

Contact: unmission@mfa.gov.cy

Femicide  is the most brutal and extreme manifestation of violence against women and girls,  rooted in gender inequality,  stereotyped gender roles, discrimination towards women and girls or harmful social norms. Femicide takes place in all regions and countries around the world. Globally, an estimated 81,100 women and girls were killed intentionally in 2021. This side event will discuss ways to strengthen responses to gender related killings and other forms of gender based violence against women and girls on a local, national and international level.

The Permanent Missions of Cyprus and Malta, together with UN Women and UNODC, are organising a CSW67 side event entitled:

“Breaking the silence on femicide: ending gender based violence against women and girls”

📆  Thursday 9 March 2023 
⏰ 08:15-09:30 a.m. 
📍Conference Room 8, UNHQ  

The event is open to UN Badge holders. 

Attached you may find a “Save the Date” flyer.  The official invitation with the concept note will follow soon.  

Participants wishing to take the floor for a short intervention during the panel discussion, are kindly requested to indicate this in the registration form.  

For in-person participation, please register at the link here. 

The event will be webcast at the link here.

#EndFemicide 

Contact: mperdomo@minrel.gob.cl

The side event will serve to exchange about different approaches to  Feminist Foreign Policymaking in different countries and regions. The objective of the event is for participants to share best practices, lessons learned and challenges regarding the drafting, development and implementation of their respective feminist foreign policies, or feminist approaches to foreign policy. It should become clear that Feminist Foreign Policy is not a monolithic concept, but a policy approach that can be shaped according to regional conditions and that contributes to greater legitimacy and resilience of foreign policy decisions and actors. The event aims to provide insights on the different ways in which Feminist Foreign Policies can be a tool that is shaped under diverse national contexts and that responds to different priorities while addressing complex national and global challenges across the three  UN pillars of peace and security, human rights and sustainable development.

Registration open until March 7 COB in New York. 

Participants with a UN Grounds Pass (Blue Pass) will be able to enter Conference Room 4 at UN Headquarters without prior registration

Contact: anna.parini@unwomen.org

The enduring challenge for adult learning and education is to reach those who need it most. Participation in adult education is lowest among those who have missed out on education in childhood, including women affected by humanitarian crises, poverty and harmful social norms. Women who do not have access to education as adults tend also to be excluded from the digital world and therefore online learning opportunities.

This side event will hear from those who have been working in UN Women’s Second Chance Education Programme and elsewhere to ensure the benefits of e-learning can extend to the women at greatest risk of exclusion. The event will facilitate discussion among planners, practitioners and participants and share the lessons of UN Women’s experience in reaching the women who need it most.

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Contact: aiwefacsw@gmail.com

The CSW67 side event will focus on the trifecta of entrepreneurship, education and health initiatives spawned by technological innovation in the digital age across countries. These support women in a variety of ways and influence the direction of developing resilient communities through paradigm shifts in beliefs, attitudes, and lifestyles. Further, will emphasise sustainable communities that support inclusive education in safe settings, participation in the digital economy, and the development of new and improved skill sets. Additionally, the side event will focus on the coherent policies that facilitate systemic transformation to reduce gender divide in digital access, to current and future technology-driven sustainability challenges and emphasise the need for UN agencies to recognise the multiplier effect on the attainment of SDGs.

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Contact: xinguo@iom.int

This high-level event will explore concrete ways on how to build a conducive environment for all migrant women and girls, to ensure that they benefit from digital inclusion and technology particularly in the context of accessing services while ensuring their rights are protected at all stages of migration. The panellists’ intervention will focus on the following objectives:

• Share evidence, innovative practices and success stories on leveraging the potential of digitalization and technology to ensure migrant women’s access to gender-responsive and equitable services.
• Propose innovative recommendations to reduce the digital gender gap for migrant women to better enable them to maximize the benefits of migration.
• Discuss the main challenges associated with digital inclusion and technological change for migrant women, and how these can be addressed.

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Contact: Amanda Sourek (a.sourek@idea.int)

Please register for this event here. 

Contact: jessica.powell@uncdf.org

Link to webcast: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87524837026#success

Contact: passmoorj@dirco.gov.za

Contact: tomas.grunwald@mzv.sk

In view of challenges, women journalists are facing, the Permanent Missions of Austria, Czechia and Slovakia to the United Nations are organizing a side event on March 9, in the margins of the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in order to strengthen the safety and protection of women journalists by combatting online threats and harassment.
The event will provide a space to discuss the challenges and threats faced by women journalists online, as well as good practices of UN Member States and other stakeholders to create a safe online environment for women journalists. In this regard, the discussions and outcomes of the High-Level International Multi-Stakeholder Conference “Safety of Journalists: Protecting media to protect democracy” held in Vienna in November 2022, can serve as useful input for future work within the UN. This includes the preparation of the Report to the UN General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session and to the UN Human Rights Council at its fifty-first session on the Safety of Journalists and Media Workers, with a special focus on the safety of women journalists, online and offline, by the UN Secretary General as mandated by the UN General Assembly Resolution of 16 December 2021.

Meet the finalists of the UN Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Challenge. The challenge supports building inclusive and diverse innovation ecosystems by empowering initiatives led by outstanding women working towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals. The challenge received more than 200 submissions from 54 countries, and 20 finalists will compete to become the challenge winners. During this session, ten of the finalists will pitch for 2 minutes and answer questions from a jury of experts and the audience. The other ten finalists will pitch on Friday, 10 March, at 10:00 am. 

The winners will be announced on 13 March 2023 at 11:00 am at MetLife Corporate Headquarters, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166.

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Contact: +1 (929) 230-9043 - nikiemaghislaine123@gmail.com or +1(929)240-5755 - odetteniamba@burkina-onu.org

Contact: Huda Alsahi huda.alsahi@fao.org

This multi-stakeholder CSW side event will provide an opportunity to explore the nexus between digital solutions, ICT policies and gender equality by highlighting the need for gender-responsive digital solutions and ICT sectoral policies to tackle the gender digital divide in rural areas.

Specifically, the event will discuss some insights from GSMA 2022 Mobile Gender Gap and the State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Reports. FAO will share data from the upcoming Status of Rural Women in Agrifood Systems report, which includes an analysis conducted by FAO based on data from the 2021 GSMA Consumer Survey with more than 11,000 respondents in 10 LMICs on the gender gaps in ownership of mobile phone devices and use of mobile internet among the rural population and among the agricultural workers' segment.

The interactive discussion will also showcase FAO’s country-level experience in utilizing inclusive and gender-responsive digital solutions to raise awareness of and sensitize rural communities on women’s land rights in Uganda, using an innovative tool called the Talking Books which is designed by Amplio Network to reach remote, under-served rural populations that are often bypassed by conventional development initiatives. Furthermore, the meeting will provide a forum to discuss the ways in which inclusive interventions involving multiple stakeholders can work to tackle the barriers to rural women’s digital inclusion.  

Contact: unkazmission@gmail.com

To attend the event please register at https://forms.gle/wKDarfASkfJ6noa99  

This event is the continuation of a long-term agenda to integrate women’s life course healthcare into the UN agenda with a focus on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), especially in context of the greatest burdens of global diseases. These include the major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), specifically, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and mental health and neurological conditions. With the challenges of Covid-19, NCDs and information and communication technologies (ICTs) have taken center stage in relevance to healthcare. With the growing emergence of the importance of ICTs with both positive and negative influences on physical and mental healthcare, women’s health and well-being must be addressed in a systematic and cohesive manner. This event will discuss examples and recommendations for the path forward.

Contact person: Dr. Elizabeth Carll [ Click to reveal ]

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Contact: Amanda Sourek (a.sourek@idea.int)

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Please note, this event has limited capacity. Attendance list will be closed when capacity is reached.

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Contact: tula.ducasse@mfbbva.org and luzandujar@mirex.gob.do

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The event will count with Spanish and English Interpretation. 
 

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In line with this year’s priority theme, this side event will bring together Ministers and high-level representatives of international organizations and the private sector to discuss how to build a digital ecosystem in which women enjoy equal opportunities and have the skills to fully participate and benefit from it.

It will underscore the importance of reducing the digital gender divide and its effects on the other correlating gaps affecting women and girls (economic, social and educational).

It will also analyze both the opportunities and challenges of internet access and use and digital skills training to identify recommendations on how to improve gender equality in both public and private digital policies and investments.

To highlight the reality of many low-income women entrepreneurs, Julia Sandoval, a Panamanian restaurant owner supported by BBVAMF, has been invited to share, on behalf of millions of women, her powerful narrative on her challenges as a woman living under vulnerable conditions and how gaining access to digital services has been transformational for their social and economic success.

To attend this event, please register here by 8 March. Please note that the venue has limited spaces available, and that registration does not guarantee access to the event, and spaces will be given on a “first come, first serve” basis.

Any questions regarding the event can be directed to [ Click to reveal ].

Contact: mosany886@gmail.com

In this seminar, initiative from the public sector and NGOs will bring up their insights and thoughts on how to build a more gender-inclusive, more equitable, and more diverse world.

Due to space constraints, in person attendance is limited and virtual participation is encouraged. 

Registration for the event is required.

The side-event will aim to:

1.       Exchange learning and good practice on strengthening gender equality sport-based policy, programming, and co-investment in community-based interventions with a focus on youth, as well as the opportunities that arise around major sports events’ legacy and how this delivers against the Sport for Generation Equality Framework.

2.       Reflect on gender-based violence related to increasing online safeguarding challenges in and through sport, and opportunities for further cooperation and partnerships around common approaches and a network creation.

3.       Raise awareness of and encourage governments, UN entities, CSOs, NGOs, sport organisations, private sector entities, and media to sign up to the Sport for Generation Equality Framework.

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Contact: DCD.GenderNet@oecd.org

Contact: womenandtrade@intracen.org

 Opening remarks

• Mr. Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA

Keynote speech

• Ms. Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union

Panel discussion

• Ms. Atty Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Undersecretary for ICT Industry Development, Philippines Department of Information and Communications Technology
• Ms. Jamie Zimmerman, Deputy Director for Digital Connectivity for Women and Girls, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Ms. Zainab Hussain Siddiqui, Vice President and Head of Sustainability, Telenor Group
• Ms. Tsedeniya Namrud, Head of Digital Capacity Building and Public Engagement Unit- Digital Transformation Program, Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Ethiopia
• Moderator: Ms. Pippa McDougall, Senior Advocacy Manager, Connected Women, GSMA

Closing remarks

• Ms. Judith Fessehaie, Head, SheTrades Initiative, International Trade Centre 

Contact: Roselynn F. Senesi

Civil society briefing by CSW Bureau Members, NGO CSW/NY and UN Women.

Contact: miperma@malionu.com

Welcome to the the second day of the pitch competition “Pitch&Win” where the remaining finalists of the UN Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Digital Innovation Challenge will pitch for 2 minutes and answer questions from a jury of experts and the audience. The challenge received 200 submissions from 54 countries and now, 20 finalist are competing to become the winners of the Challenge.

The challenge supports building inclusive and diverse innovation ecosystems by empowering initiatives led by outstanding women working towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals.

The winners will be announced on 13 March 2023 at 11:00 am at MetLife Corporate Headquarters, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166.

Please click here for registration 

Contact: avargas-garcia@idrc.ca

Contact: TERESA PINEDA/FRED SARUFA

Contact: nypm3com@gmail.com

Register by 06 March 2023.

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Contact: Ms Celia nabeta Permanent Mission of Uganda to the UN; Mr. Nnamdi Nze Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN

Contact: Konan Marc KOUASSI (kouassikonan_marc@yahoo.fr) Emmanuel Fiegolo (fiegolo@yahoo.fr)

Contact: UNRSVPMarch10@gmail.com

The event, which will be moderated by UN Women Executive Director, Sima Sami Bahous will take place in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters New York and will also be webcast on UN Web TV. The physical townhall is open to representatives of ECOSOC-accredited NGOs registered for CSW67. All others are welcome to view the live webcast at http://webtv.un.org/.

Contact: Matilda Singende

To develop a more inclusive and diverse world, creating an enabling digital innovation ecosystem for women entrepreneurs worldwide is crucial. The UN Women's Entrepreneurship Accelerator (WEA) aims to maximize women's entrepreneurship impact in achieving the SDGs and support empowering 5 million women entrepreneurs by 2030.

The two session side-event of the Commission on the Status of Women 67^th edition, provides an opportunity for all stakeholders within the women’s entrepreneurship ecosystem to discuss the importance of women entrepreneurship as a powerful force addressing societal challenges through innovation  and support of SDG’s; learn about the impact of the WEA  initiatives; and have an understanding of the emerging policies and practices that could be applied and replicated globally to support gender sensitive innovation.

Registration Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gender-inclusive-innovation-ecosystems-wea-innovation-challenge-tickets-565756501927?aff=erelexpmlt

The winners of the WEA Innovation Challenge on the best technological solution led by women to advance the SDGs will have the chance to pitch live their businesses to a jury formed by WEA Partners and Investors.The challenge received over 200 submissions from 54 countries. Join and register as a guest for the pitch of the finalist to choose the winners on 9 March 2023 at 10:00 – 11:30 EDT (https://itu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vQWhWe9aREaU6HV-qo6KuA) and 10 March 2023 at 10:00 – 11:30 EDT (https://itu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fpzeRei5RweTw6o6Tn35F).

 WEA CSW Side-event Registration Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gender-inclusive-innovation-ecosystems-wea-innovation-challenge-tickets-565756501927?aff=erelexpmlt

Contact: ala.vechiu@odihr.pl

Women and children represent an overwhelming percentage of trafficked individuals. UNODC’s 2022 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons estimates that 60% of detected trafficked persons are women and girls. Moreover, 91% of detected individuals trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation, the most commonly detected form of exploitation globally, are women and girls. Women and children, especially girls, face more violent exploitation by traffickers, exacerbated by the fact that there was a decline of 11 per cent in one year in identification rates of trafficked women and girls. As highlighted by the OSCE/ODIHR and UN Women report on Addressing Emerging Human Trafficking Trends and Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic, where NRMs existed, the responses to trafficking in human beings were significantly more effective, including for women and girls. Trafficking in human beings is often gender specific, as are its consequences, harms and recovery processes. Assistance to survivors therefore needs to be gender specific and tailored. In particular, governments including their security sectors cannot effectively combat trafficking in human beings without fully recognizing the acute vulnerabilities and specific needs of women and girls. The identification of victims of trafficking is often hampered by a number of factors, including lack of adequate training or functioning NRMs. At the same time, other factors, such as implicit or explicit sexist bias, prejudice and gender stereotypes may negatively impact law enforcement assistance to female victims of trafficking. States, as well as international organizations and civil society needs to intensify their collaborative efforts to combat trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls worldwide as forms of gender-based violence and manifestations of gender inequality, as recognized in SDG 5.2. This includes development and implementation of gender-sensitive NRMs, national policy and strategy, support to survivor-led movements and inclusion of survivor leaders as key stakeholders in combating trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls.

Objectives:

 The event will aim to:

• Highlight the importance to establish and strengthen NRMs with a human rights-based, gender-sensitive, trauma-informed, and survivor and victim-centered approach;
• Promote the implementation of the updated ODIHR Handbook on National Referral Mechanisms to Protect the Rights of Trafficked Persons;
• Facilitate discussion of gender-sensitive approaches to identification, protection, assistance and support, criminal justice and redress for women and girls, victims of human trafficking;
• Promote the inclusion of voices of survivors of trafficking.

Contact: Amanda Sourek (a.sourek@idea.int)

Please register for this event here. 

What is this newest version of Artificial Intelligence – Generative AI?

Why is Generative AI so potentially dangerous and harmful?

How can AI be harnessed so that it can contribute to leveling the playing field for women and girl of the Global South?

 The “Coded Gaze” will highlight:

The state of play of generative AI: the newest challenges and dangers of for marginalized, racialized women and girls in all sectors globally;

Action needed by Governments, civil society, foundations, tech companies and the UN: ensuring AI is governed, used and accessed equitably and ethically for racialized women and girls;

 The special role of the creative arts: how social justice-driven art organizations are using AI to address the harmful norms and stereotypes that underpin racial and gender inequality.

IN PERSON Registration link:

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(In person registration ends at midnight EST, Thursday March 9^th)

ONLINE registration link:

https://bit.ly/3mwtZDN

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Contact: Marta Encinas (marta.encinas-martin@oecd.org) - - Johanna Fajardo (johanna.fajardo-gonzalez@undp.org)

Registration is required.

Please register for this event here.  

Contact: Cristina Iampieri, iampieri@un.org

The event will tackle the obstacles and opportunities to increase the participation of Sahelian women in the security and justice sectors, in efforts to strengthen human security against terrorism and organized crime. The focus will be on utilizing innovative strategies to promote participation and challenge gender stereotypes and norms. The side event will allow to share best practices and advocate for greater representation of women in security and justice sectors in the Sahel, thus contributing to long-term sustainable peace and security.

Programme
Moderator: Ms. Delphine Schantz, Representative, UNODC New-York Liaison Office

Opening segment / high-level remarks

• H.E. Ms. Allahoury Aminata Zourkaleini, Minister for Women Promotion and Children Protection, Government of Niger
• H.E. Ms. Savia Mint N’Tahah, Minister of Social Action, Childhood and Family, Government of Mauritania
• H.E. Ms. Nandy Somé/Diallo, Minister of Solidarity, Humanitarian Action, National Reconciliation, Gender and Family, Government of Burkina Faso
• H.E. Ms Amina Priscille Longoh, Minister of Gender and National Solidarity, Government of Chad
• H.E. Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Ambassador/Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations

Interactive panel discussion

• Prof. Amadou Sall, Head of the Youth, Gender, Counter Radicalization and Violent Extremism Division of the G5 Sahel • Ms. Diyé Ba, Regional Coordinator of the G5 Sahel Women’s Platform • Cmm’r. Minata Traore, President of the Association of Female Police Officers of the National Police of Burkina Faso (AFFPN-BF), Winner of the G5 Sahel Gender Award
• Cmm’r. Zakaria Hebie, Secretary General of the Police Academy of Burkina Faso, Winner of the G5 Sahel Gender Award
• Cmdr. Morou Hadiza, Chief of the Central Unit for the Protection of Women and Minors, National Gendarmerie of Niger, Winner of the G5 Sahel Gender Award
• Ms. Paivi Kannisto, Chief of Peace and Security Division, UN Women
• Ms. Cristina Iampieri, Sahel Programme Coordinator, UNODC Regional Office for West and Central Africa

For in-person participation: please register with the following form https://forms.microsoft.com/e/4XPzZzM3Fj.

The event will be broadcast via UN Web TV: https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1w/k1w5i7sytn

Contact: Pozzan@ilo.org

Contact: Amanda Sourek (a.sourek@idea.int)

Please register for this event here. 

Civil society briefing by CSW Bureau Members, NGO CSW/NY and UN Women, with focus on youth engagement.

Join UNDP, the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the UN and the European Union to explore the opportunities and challenges that innovative and digital interventions can bring to development efforts to enhance resilience, strengthen recovery, and to prevent violent extremism in complex crisis contexts. Highlighting examples from Afghanistan, Somalia, and the Asia Pacific region, the event will showcase the ways that digital engagements can be part of a broader strategy to advance transformational approaches to advancing gender equality and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.

This is a hybrid event: 

In person registration here by 10 March 2023 noon

Virtual registration: bit.ly/3KZZIYh

The UN Joint Programme “Accelerating Progress Towards Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment” (JP RWEE) is being implemented by FAO, IFAD, UN Women and WFP in Nepal, Niger, the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tonga), Tanzania, Tunisia and Rwanda. The programme takes a holistic approach to address the multifaceted barriers to women’s economic empowerment, implementing diverse programme strategies that take into account intersecting forms of discrimination faced by rural women. 

This side event will share experiences and practices including a focus on increasing women’s access to markets and value chains, and achieving sustainable livelihoods, including through enabling rural women’s access to  technology and innovations. Speakers from JP RWEE countries will join to both discuss experiences of holistic programming for women’s economic empowerment, including a focus on experiences from Nepal, Niger and  Rwanda, and to discuss strategies and approaches required at policy and programme level to accelerate rural women’s economic empowerment.

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The latest available SDG 5 data show that the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. COVID-19 and the backlash against women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are further diminishing the outlook for gender equality. Violence against women remains high; global health, climate and humanitarian crises have further increased risks of violence, especially for the most vulnerable women and girls; and women feel more unsafe than they did before the pandemic. Women’s representation in positions of power and decision-making remains below parity. Only 47 per cent of data required to track progress on SDG 5 are currently available, rendering women and girls effectively invisible. Nearly halfway to the 2030 endpoint for the SDGs, the time to act and invest in women and girls is now.

This side event aims to present UN Women and UNSD's Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2022 Report which emphasizes the data and indicators available and needed from monitoring the SDGs from a gender perspective as well as the data gaps. The event will also feature presentations from various stakeholders on innovation and technology change including from WIPO on a dataset on patent applications by sex, followed by a moderated Q&A. The event is expected to spur dialogue on how to better mainstream gender across all the SDGs, in this final decade of action especially on innovation and technology change.

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Contact: miperma@malionu.com

Contact: Roselynn F. Senesi

This event will provide a platform for the discussion around the use of information and communication technologies in universities and colleges as a way to advance, promote, and protect gender equality, while addressing related issues of gender-based violence, women's empowerment and greater access of women to higher education. The event will also explore how university policies have evolved and the way in which academic and scientific research is connected to these issues.

Event’s webpage: Click here

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Contact: office@holyseemission.org

Women have a right to the highest attainable standard of health, but many lack both the knowledge necessary to make informed choices regarding healthcare and do not receive care which meets their needs. Innovations in technology offer new solutions to help address these gaps. This event will feature insights from experts in health, education, and programming based on their experiences promoting good health and wellbeing for women and girls. 

Please note that those without United Nations grounds passes will need to pre-register for a special event ticket. The number of special event tickets is limited; registrants requiring tickets will receive confirmation and instructions before the event regarding access to UN grounds.

Please note that registration has closed.

Contact: angelica.medina@unwomen.org

Con Alma is a musical and cinematic ode that charts isolation to liberation. Magos Herrera, Paola Prestini, and some other outstanding musicians in the contemporary international scene created this iconic album during the most devastating isolation context generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to leave a blueprint of their experience and reach out to heal through the power of music collectively.

Registration is required – Seating will be on a 'first come, first served' basis.

Tickets will be available from 4.30 to 5.45 p.m. 

1. Non-UN guests: Outside of the Visitors’ Entrance on First Avenue at 45^th upon presentation of a State Issued photo ID

1. UN pass holders and accredited NGOs
   • Third-Floor entrance to the Trusteeship Chamber 

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Contact: patricia.cortes@unwomen.org

Contact: missiondrc@gmail.com

Please click here to register (pre-registration required). 

For more information please click here. 

Women who work in gemstone mining and trade are at risk of many forms of exploitation including labor exploitation, discrimination, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and they struggle to gain (1) paying positions in gemstone trade,  (2) equal pay for their work, and (3) a fair price for the gemstones that they sell. Virtu Gem—with funding from the World Bank’s Extractives Global Programmatic Support Trust Fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic— leveraged innovative use of technology to build a gender inclusive infrastructure and open markets directly from mining communities in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia to jewelers internationally.

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At this virtual panel, our discussion will focus on the importance of closing the gender digital divide. Together, we will explore how to achieve gender equality through the integration of technology into empowerment programs for women and girls.

Hear directly from UNFCU Foundation grant partners on their transformational work in science, technology, engineering, and math:

• International Telecommunication Union (ITU) African Girls Can Code Initiative across Africa
• Building Tomorrow on its distance learning tool for low-income and rural youth in Uganda
• RefuSHE and SHElearns initiatives that link tech skills to jobs with higher earning potential and entrepreneurships for women refugees in Kenya

Please click here to register

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to join the event.

The event will address opportunities and challenges for young people of African descent to access technology and innovate, will discuss the urgency of the inclusion of young people of African descent in the decision making process by empowering them through education including, innovative and technology based education and skill development. It will discuss best practices and practical lessons learned.

The event will be held in-person. Please register here. Participants without a UN grounds pass must RSVP by 10 March.

Contact: Begona Castro: begona.castro@giz.de

The Kingdom of Lesotho’s Ministry of Gender, Youth, Sports Arts, Culture and
Social Development and regional programme Partnerships for Prevention of Gender-Based
Violence in Southern Africa (PfP) funded by the German Government and the Ford Foundation
and implemented by GIZ, are cooperating in the organization of this side event to share good
practices and lessons learnt from the collaborative development of digital
solutions and their integration within existing strategies to change individual beliefs and social
norms that are the root cause of gender-based violence.

Contact: events@unglobalcompact.org

Business leaders will gather to debate and opine about how the private sector can accelerate gender equality by effectively engaging men as allies in the workplace and beyond. The outcome of the roundtable discussion will be an Action Guide outlining key actions to implement an effective male allyship programme. Invitation-only. 

To learn more click here

Registration: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=gZplVIGYMECK9vYVEqi82FeCa0iri5lNpta_bOsrlCdUOExZSVNPWk9XVE5CUEs3TzBNTDJLWjFPUC4u&origin=QRCode

Contact: carolinematizha@gmail.com gmanyanga3@gmail.com

Contact: events@unglobalcompact.org

The UN Global Compact and Champions of Change will gather global CEOs to reflect on how businesses can guard against exacerbating inequality in the future of work and discuss how the private sector can take advantage of the current disruptions to accelerate progress towards a gender equal future of work. Invitation-only. 

To learn more click here

Contact: events@unglobalcompact.org

Following the CEO Roundtable, the UN Global Compact will host a reception giving people an opportunity to enjoy the wonderful company CSW attracts. Expand your network of thinkers and doers and get inspired to drive action in your own organization. Invitation-Only.

Contact: pozzan@ilo.org and dedova@ilo.org

Registration link for in-person participation

You may also follow the event live through UN Web TV

Civil society briefing by CSW Bureau Members, NGO CSW/NY and UN Women.

Please click here to register

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Contact: gender@ifad.org

IFAD, in collaboration with the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Lab, will host an online side-event to stimulate reflection and discussion on innovations and digital technologies for the empowerment of rural women and girls. We will create an interactive and engaging space wherein guest speakers and audience members, through critical sharing and thinking, would inspire others and support the adoption of new successful practices. 

IFAD is accelerating its support for the use of ICTs and digital tools among small-scale farmers in rural areas across the world, with a specific focus on rural women and girls. At the same time, the Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is seeking to generate evidence on how to close the gender gap in earnings, productivity, assets and agency and the role digital technology and innovation can play in this. 

Objectives 

• Provide understanding of the “triple divide” that exists in terms of access to, and use of, digital technologies. 

• Identify, and facilitate discussion around, existing pro-poor and/or inclusive digital technologies that been successful in addressing the “triple divide”.  
• Champion a clear message that gender-responsive action towards digital technologies and innovation is urgently needed in order to mitigate the marginalising impacts of the “triple divide”. 

Contact: www.wsis.org/forum

Session page link: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2023/Agenda/Session/358 

Contact: DEV.Gender@oecd.org

Contact: +1 (212) 963 8725/4200

This side event will highlight some of the efforts undertaken at national, local and civil society level towards ensuring inclusive cities for women and girls with a specific focus on regulatory aspects and participatory approaches designed for women and girls to participate in and co-create solutions within the city. This includes women developing public space plans, technologies, engaging in local government proposals to ensure meaningful discussion around privacy (including how much and what kind of data is essential to be gathered), transparency (who developed the technology, who owns the data) and control (mechanisms for redress), and women and girls being able to provide feedback on the impact of the technologies.  

Contact: juliette.thiriez@un.org

The Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network is a United Nations (UN) hosted online platform for industry stakeholders, media, Governments, and UN system entities. The network showcases and enables collaborations that accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Considering the fashion and lifestyle sector’s significant impact on societies and the environment, the Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network fosters transparent, inclusive, and transformative engagement of global stakeholders to drive urgent action for sustainability. The network provides an impartial platform for the industry and the UN system. Its key objective is to mobilize expertise, innovation, technology, and resources towards a sustainable and inclusive COVID-19 recovery, with the Sustainable Development Goals as a guiding framework.

India over the last 7 years has become a prominent nation in deploying technologies for transforming the lives of its citizens. Government initiatives such as National Digital Literacy Mission and the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan had been introduced to increase digital literacy and a total of 5.36 million people were trained, out of which around 42% candidates were from rural India. Several young, talented youth who are well conversant in information technology have set up Common Service Centers (CSCs) as Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) at the Panchayat level.The side-event aims to achieve the below:

• To discuss key challenges and issues in ensuring universal access to internet and technology
• To deliberate on technological innovations and practices in empowering women and girls
• To chart out a road map on skilling girls and women to bridge the gap in workforce participation as well as in access and use of technology

 Without increased digital adoption and use, girls will have fewer employment opportunities and will face additional barriers to workforce participation. Closing the digital divide for women and girls’needs tailored understanding and actions for each of these barriers. Access to devices and internet services, skills, resources, and safety concerns: these are the factors that are almost universally listed as contributing to the gender digital divide. Some reports also list social norms as a factor after the first three. In order to be a part of the digital knowledge economy, the call to bridge the gap and digital inclusion has grown louder.

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Simultaneous English to French / French to English interpretation will be available

Digital technologies are a major disruptor to education, and they can empower or discriminate. The presentations and exchanges will contribute to the growing awareness and capacity for policies, programming and actions to promote gender equality in and through education in digital contexts. Themes will include feminist digital pedagogies, online safety in education settings, virtual classrooms for teaching coding to girls in remote areas; international assistance initiatives in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in the Global South; and the importance of feminist technology and education networks. This is a space to learn and exchange perspectives.

Opening Remarks: The Honourable Minister Jan Tinetti, New Zealand’s Minister of Education and Minister for Women

Presenters include:

Antara Ganguli, Director of the United Nations Global Education Initiative (UNGEI)

Isabel, a member of UNGEI’s Transform Education Young Feminist Coalition

Helen Beetham, Editor: Feminisms, technologies and learning (feminist special issue of Learning Media Technology) and Rethinking Pedagogy for the Digital Age

Ella Serry, Manager International Engagement and Capacity Building, Australia’s E-Safety Commissioner

Frances Ferreira, Acting Director: Skills, Commonwealth of Learning

Fereshteh Forough, Founder, Code to Inspire

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Contact: Hawa Diallo, Civil Society Unit, UN Department of Global Communications; Email: undgccso@un.org

Contact: Hawa Diallo, Civil Society Unit, UN Department of Global Communications; Email: undgccso@un.org

Contact: MEZANG AKAMBA, Email: mezangakamba@yahoo.fr, Lisa Correnti, email: lisa@c-fam.org

The Beijing Platform for Action recognizes that women with disabilities face barriers to full equality and advancement (PoA 46). It calls on governments to partner with the multilateral system, and civil society to develop and fund effective programmes designed specifically to meet the needs of women with disabilities in the context of poverty (60), education (81, 82), health-care (101, 106), medical research (109), violence against women (116), peace and security (131), labor policies (178), women’s participation in decision making (195), access to resources (206), human rights (125, 232, 233, 259, 270), and family-oriented polices (278). 

In addition to guaranteeing the right to life, governments should as much as possible provide social protection measures to mothers and the family, which is primarily responsible for the development, education and well-being of children with Down syndrome, and very often remain the main source of social protection for children with Down syndrome.

The Buenos Aires Commitment and its contribution to multilateralism

Latin America and the Caribbean stands out as the only region in the world where, for 45 years, governments, international organizations and civil society organizations, particularly women's and feminist organizations, have met at the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean to identify progress and challenges in guaranteeing women's rights and autonomy and achieving gender equality.
The agreements and commitments made during the 45 years of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean nourish the Regional Gender Agenda, a profound, ambitious, and comprehensive roadmap.

The Buenos Aires Commitment adopted at the XV Regional Conference in November 2022, calls for a transition to a new development pattern that prioritizes the sustainability of life and the planet, recognizes the right to care as part of the human rights fundamental to the well-being of the population as a whole, guarantees the rights of people in need of care, as well as the rights of those who provide care. The Buenos Aires Commitment sets out key agreements to address the structural causes of gender inequality, to achieve a transformative recovery with gender equality oriented towards the sustainability of life, and transition towards a care society.

In this context, and in the framework of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 67), the Government of the Republic of Argentina, in its capacity as Chair of the Presiding Officers elected at the XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (November, 2022), together with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), as Secretariat of the Conference, and in coordination with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), are organizing the side event "The Buenos Aires Commitment and its contribution to multilateralism", with the objective of presenting this intergovernmental agreement as a contribution of Latin America and the Caribbean to the deliberations of the CSW67 at the United Nations.

Spanish-English interpretation will be available.

French to English interpretation will be provided.

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