CSW62 side event: Under the spotlight: Ending violence against ALL women and girls
Date: Monday, 12 March 2018, 3–4.15 p.m. EDT
Location: ECOSOC Chamber, UN Headquarters, New York, NY 10017. Enter through the Visitors’ Entrance, 1st Avenue and 46th Street.
As the design and planning of the Spotlight Initiative is ongoing, it is necessary to examine and understand major gaps in current prevention, response, and research frameworks. It is important to identify existing barriers to reaching and engaging specific groups that face intersecting and multiple forms of discrimination. Analysing these challenges will assist in understanding the priorities and policy implications that need to be emphasized in order to end violence against women and girls, including for marginalized groups of women and girls.
On the margins of CSW62, which examines as a priority theme the “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls”, the question of intersectionality and of reaching specific groups of women and girls, within the Spotlight Initiative, will be the central topic of this CSW side event.
Welcome: Moderator: Munizae Jahangir, News Anchor and Producer
Opening remarks: Neven Mimica, European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development
Keynote: Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
Opening remarks: Helga Schmid, Secretary General, European External Action Service
Panellists:
- Ana Leticia Aguilar Theissen, Presidential Secretary for Women, Guatemala
- Lizzie Kiama, Disability Rights and Inclusion Professional, Kenya
- Tarcila Rivera, Indigenous Rights Activist, Peru
- Dubravka Simonovic, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
- Miki Wali, Trans and Youth Feminist, Human Rights and Gender Advocate, Fiji
Closing remarks: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women
The event is open to CSW62 delegates, to all individuals with UN grounds passes, and to guests with invitations.
