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17th plenary meeting (resumed) - Commission on the Status of Women, Sixty-eighth session (CSW68) Action and closing.

The sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 11  to 22 March 2024 under the theme "Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective". Review theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

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Statement by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on behalf the International Women’s Day 2024, March 8th.

Gender equality benefits us all. Yet achieving it remains one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time. We must invest in women and girls to achieve sustainable development, justice and equity, and to achieve the goals and targets of the Biodiversity Plan. Currently there is a staggering 360 billion USD annual deficit in spending on genderequality measures. The current economic system is exacerbating poverty and inequality and is negatively impacting the environment. This reality disproportionately affects women and other marginalized groups around the world. Shifting towards and investing in a green economy is one of the ways to amplify women’s voices. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, known also as “the Biodiversity Plan” aims to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030 for the benefit of people and planet. Women play critical roles in biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, ecosystem restoration and environmental justice. So, as recognized in the Plan, successful implementation will depend on ensuring gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, and on reducing inequalities. A specific target (Target 23) aims to ensure gender equality through a gender-responsive approach, recognizing the equal rights and access to land and natural resources for women and girls, and their full, effective, meaningful, and informed participation and leadership at all levels of action, engagement, policy, and decision-making processes related to biodiversity. The Biodiversity Plan is accompanied by a very ambitious Gender Plan of Action. This sets out concrete actions to be taken by all actors to enable women and girls to fully participate and contribute in implementation. This International Women’s Day, let’s agree to #InvestInWomen – to invest in our future: a gender equal, just and sustainable future.

Statement by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on behalf the International Women’s Day 2024, March 8th. "Invest in Women: accelerate progress".

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Women's Political Participation and Empowerment in Post-Coup Myanmar (CSW68 Side Event).

Watch the Women's Political Participation and Empowerment in Post-Coup Myanmar (CSW68 Side Event).

This side event will explore women's political participation and empowerment in post-coup Myanmar. Building on the CSW68 priority theme of accelerating the achievement of gender equality and women's and girls' empowerment by strengthening institutions with a gender perspective, the event aims to explore challenges and opportunities for strengthening women's representation, voice, and agency in Myanmar's post-coup interim democratic institutions, both at union and state level.

Working towards the common goals of opposing the military dictatorship, establishing a democratic federal state, providing humanitarian aid and advocating for the rights of all Myanmar citizens, including ethnic minorities and women, this side event is organised to increase knowledge, strengthen partnerships and facilitate national, regional, and international support for women's political participation and empowerment in Myanmar.

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Concept note and agenda

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13th plenary meeting - Commission on the Status of Women, Sixty-eighth session (CSW68) - General discussion (continued)

The sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 11  to 22 March 2024 under the theme "Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective". Review theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls

Watch the 13th plenary meeting - Commission on the Status of Women, Sixty-eighth session (CSW68) - General discussion (continued)

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Women under Foreign Occupation (CSW68 Side Event).

The panel discussion will evaluate different dimensions of the challenges that girls and women face specially those under foreign occupation and dwell upon possible pathways to ensure the protection and promotion of their rights.

The objective of the panel discussion is to raise awareness regarding violations of the fundamental rights of women in situations of foreign occupation, specifically:

Sexual attacks, including rape, intimidation and exploitation, often perpetrated as a weapon of war;

Arrest and incarceration, including of male family members;

Denial of food, shelter and medical help;

Privacy intrusions, including in house searches;

The abduction, detention and torture of children;

Trauma suffered due to security operations, torture and intimidation; and

The indiscriminate bombing of homes, dwellings and places of refuge.

Launch of the Women under Foreign Occupation (CSW68 Side Event).

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Financing social protection and care systems for the fulfilment of human rights, gender equality and poverty reduction (CSW68 Side Event).

UN Women is convening a high-level panel of diverse leaders for this CSW68 side event to explore how financing social protection and care systems can realize human rights, promote gender equality, and eradicate poverty amidst multiple crises. 

Social protection and care systems are recognized as crucial tools to combat poverty (SDG1), ensure universal health coverage (SDG 3), and promote human rights and gender equality (SDG 5). However, cascading crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental emergencies, and conflicts have reversed progress on poverty eradication and gender equality, leaving 1 in 10 women in extreme poverty and triggering a cost-of-living crisis amid a looming debt distress. These shocks are intensified by underlying structural crises in jobs, livelihoods, and care. If current trends continue, by 2030, an estimated 8% of the world's female population – 342.4 million women and girls – will still be living on less than $2.15 a day. Against this backdrop, UN Women's corporate side event will explore how social protection and care systems can advance human rights, gender equality, and poverty eradication. As the world prepares for the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration, the event aims to accelerate progress in expanding social protection, strengthening resilience, and integrating social protection with employment and livelihoods. Additionally, this event seeks to bridge thematic linkages between the priority theme of CSW68 'Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing' with a gender perspective and the review theme on 'Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.'

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NGO Briefing - United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Sixty-eighth session (CSW68 Side Event).

NGO Briefing - United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Sixty-eighth session (#CSW68 Side Event).

Ecosoc Chamber, United Nations Headquarters;

68th Session of the Commission of the Status on Women, UN Web TV

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Women in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET): Unlocking Digital Empowerment - CSW68 Side Event.

Recent strategic responses to achieve gender equality, empowerment and poverty alleviation are programs that promote digital literacy and engaging women in entrepreneurial skills building through digital platforms, which included facilitation of access to resources for starting and growing small enterprises. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 'going digital' was the most practical way to facilitate transfer and movements of information, training, structured lessons, etc.

The proposed side event intends to highlight digital programs for women that are transformative when built within an ecosystem of "business skills building, access to capital, coaching + mentoring and network building."

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Launch of Women in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET): Unlocking Digital Empowerment - CSW68 Side Event.

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Launch of the Gender Action Plan to support implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (CSW68 Side Event).

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework) seeks to "prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk through the implementation of integrated and inclusive economic, structural, legal, social, health, cultural, educational, environmental, technological, political and institutional measures that prevent and reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability to disaster, increase preparedness for response and recovery, and thus strengthen resilience."

Watch of Launch of the Gender Action Plan to support implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (CSW68 Side Event)

Objectives of the event The event will:

Launch the Gender Action Plan to Support Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai GAP)

Showcase good practices in gender-responsive disaster risk reduction

Provide an opportunity for key stakeholders to make commitments of support to implement the Sendai GAP.

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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 Concept Note

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Launch of the SIGI 2024 SIGI Regional Report for Southeast Asia: Time to care (CSW68 Side Event).

Watch the Launch of the SIGI 2024 SIGI Regional Report for Southeast Asia: Time to care (CSW68 Side Event)!

Care systems in Southeast Asia rely heavily on women's unpaid work. But demographic, educational, and economic shifts are increasing the demand for paid care. What does this mean for women in the region - and what challenges lie ahead? This event will explore the care economy's transformative power to accelerate women's economic empowerment, while strengthening Southeast Asia's resilience to external shocks.

Hosted by Korea, the OECD Development Centre is organising a CSW68 Side-event to launch the SIGI 2024 SIGI Regional Report for Southeast Asia: "Time to Care". The side-event aims to delve into the root causes of gender inequality in Southeast Asia and explore potential solutions, particularly in formalising the care sector. 

The SIGI 2024 SIGI Regional Report for Southeast Asia: Time to Care underscores that discrimination remains most pronounced within the family. Traditional gender roles continue to confine women to caregiving responsibilities, while men are expected to assume the roles of family providers and decision-makers. 

Hosted by Korea, the OECD Development Centre is organising a CSW68 Side-event to launch the SIGI 2024 SIGI Regional Report for Southeast Asia: "Time to Care". The side-event aims to delve into the root causes of gender inequality in Southeast Asia and explore potential solutions, particularly in formalising the care sector. 

The SIGI 2024 SIGI Regional Report for Southeast Asia: Time to Care underscores that discrimination remains most pronounced within the family. Traditional gender roles continue to confine women to caregiving responsibilities, while men are expected to assume the roles of family providers and decision-makers. 

The event will feature a panel discussion where speakers will share insights on how gender-transformative policies and innovative programmes in the care sector can challenge established gender norms, promote women's rights, foster gender equality, and drive sustainable development. The event will also explore pathways for collective action, involving policy makers, lawmakers, grassroots organisations, philanthropy, and the wider development community. Together, these stakeholders can accelerate progress toward realising Sustainable Development Goal 5 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Southeast Asian region.

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Concept note and programme Flyer

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Beyond crisis: Driving gender equality and empowerment for women and girls of all ages through social protection (CSW68 Side Event).

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The panel discussion (HelpAge International, International Labour Organization of the United Nations (ILO), Irish Aid) aims to raise awareness of the opportunities that social protection offers to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls of all ages, including older women.

With increasingly frequent compounded crises and stressors, including economic shocks, new and protracted conflicts, and extreme weather events caused by climate change, which have converged with pre-existing levels of poverty and inequality, the need for stronger and more universal, adequate, comprehensive and sustainable social protection systems that successfully integrate a gender perspective across the life-course has never been more pressing. Through a panel discussion featuring multiple stakeholders and a combination of theoretical perspectives and evidence, the session aims to raise awareness of the opportunities that social protection offers to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls of all ages, including older women.

Panellists:

Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, Special Representative to the UN and Director Office for the United Nations, ILO

Government representative from a low- or middle-income country (to be confirmed)

Silke Staab, Research Specialist at UN Women

Emma Kaliya, Director of the Malawi Human Rights Resource Centre and representative of HelpAge International's Global Network

Jose Arroyo, Manager of Corporate and Responsibility and Labor Affairs, USCIB

Annika Wünsche, DGB Germany, International Trade Union Confederation representative

Asian Development Bank representative (to be confirmed)

Moderator: Ambassador Dónal Cronin, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations

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12th plenary meeting - Commission on the Status of Women, Sixty-eighth session (CSW68) - Interactive dialogue expert panel on priority theme.

Watch the 12th plenary meeting - Commission on the Status of Women, Sixty-eighth session (CSW68) - Interactive dialogue expert panel on priority theme.

The sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 11  to 22 March 2024 under the theme "Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective". Review theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls

#womenandgirls. #status of women #Plenary meetings #women issues #financialinclusion #poverty #strengthen inginstitutions #women's leadership #access to sustainable infrastructure #access to socialprotection

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Invisible struggles and bravehearts: Being a woman in Palestine (CSW68 Side Event)

Women are among the biggest victims of war, conflicts, and humanitarian crises in all age groups. The United Nations states that Palestinian women bear some of the heaviest burdens in the attacks on Gaza. Palestinian women struggle with living conditions that fall well below the basic standards and survival needs and face profound challenges in various aspects of their lives.

The event will feature discussions by activists, journalists, and experts on the impact of the prolonged facts in Palestine, particularly on women's lives, their spirit of freedom, and strong resilience under these conditions. Panel discussions will also highlight how Türkiye and KADEM address these issues and the initiatives undertaken. Inspirational stories about women's strategies, resilience, and practices in coping with such crises will be shared. This event aims to deepen participants' understanding of the specific challenges faced by Palestinian women due to the prolonged occupation, emphasizing various ways of solidarity, coping mechanisms, and existence. Ultimately, it seeks to raise awareness globally for a more inclusive, ethical, and justice-based peacebuilding approach and definition of freedom and encourages participants to contribute to supporting this cause.

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Concept note Watch Invisible struggles and bravehearts: Being a woman in Palestine (CSW68 Side Event)

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CSW68 Youth Forum (CSW68 Side Event).

UN Women will continue to push for systematic and sustainable engagement of adolescent girls and youth in intergovernmental processes. It will convene an annual CSW Youth Forum, led by young people with the support of UN Women, as a pivotal event in engaging young people in the Commission. The Forum will take place in New York at the UN Secretariat for the opening on 15th of March, followed by two days at the United Nations International School on the 16th and 17th of March 2024.

The Forum will provide a dynamic and interactive space that enables young participants to engage directly with policymakers, articulate their ideas, and foreground their priorities, especially regarding methods of ensuring accountability.

Objectives of the Youth Forum:

Knowledge development through various interactive sessions, panels, and workshops sessions where participants critically examine the impacts of current socio-economic crises on women and girls and commit to a set of recommendations for strengthening accountability mechanisms.

Leadership activation by supporting attendees to articulate specific demands for institutional transformation and to finalize a declaration of commitments for advocating gender-responsive reforms in public institutions.

Networking and alliance building that result in strengthened partnerships amongst young people with a focus on addressing gender, age, and poverty-related challenges.

Strategic planning for the Global Youth and Adolescent Recommendations, the Summit of the Future, and Beijing+30.

Watch the CSW68 Youth Forum (CSW68 Side Event)!

The objectives of the Youth Forum, aligned with the CSW68 priority theme, are designed to create a transformative and engaging space for adolescent girls and young people.

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Strengthening the socio-economic resilience of women and young people to prevent violent extremism (CSW68 Side Event).

The inclusive and sustainable nature of development calls for the full involvement of women, who constitute more than half of humanity. In recent years, humanity has been facing a worrying rise in crime and violent extremism. This situation is a threat to peace and security, to human rights and sustainable development.

This phenomenon not only accentuates the climate of fear and insecurity, but also affects the efforts of those in power to guarantee security to populations and allow them to freely go about their activities.

For an effective fight against this violent extremism, it is essential to address its root causes, notably the socio-economic inequalities and vulnerabilities faced by populations, particularly women and young people. Women's economic empowerment is seen as one of the ideal paths to achieving gender equality and eradicating poverty.

The general objective of this event, which will take place in the form of a round table, is to share Togo's experiences in empowering women and youth, countering violent extremism and strengthening partnerships. It will be also an occasion to learn about the experiences of other countries to improve strategies and encourage new partnerships to scale up programs and projects relating to strengthening the resilience of women and young people in the face of violent extremism.

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- Concept note - Watch Strengthening the socio-economic resilience of women and young people to prevent violent extremism (CSW68 Side Event)! The general objective of this event, which will take place in the form of a round table, is to share Togo's experiences in empowering women and youth, countering violent extremism and strengthening partnerships.

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11th plenary meeting - Commission on the Status of Women, Sixty-eighth session (CSW68).

Voluntary presentations, followed by interactive dialogue

The sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 11  to 22 March 2024 under the theme "Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective".

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. A functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), it was established by Council resolution 11(II) of 21 June 1946.

The CSW is instrumental in promoting women's rights, documenting the reality of women's lives throughout the world, and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

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-Proposed Organization of Work - CSW68 (2024) Website - Watch the 11th plenary meeting - Commission on the Status of Women, Sixty-eighth session (CSW68) - Interactive dialogue with youth representatives on the priority theme

Review theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

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Haiti au Féminin: A face of Hope for All (CSW68 Side Event).

Based on the testimonies of Haitian women and public and private support institutions, this Side Event to CSW 68 will bring together high-level speakers from international organizations, government, the private sector, and civil society among others. They will discuss on ways of increasing networking and coordination technical and financial support to women and young girls for greater impact on the ground. 

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Women's economic empowerment, the expected financing dividend Gender-sensitive for peace and development in Haiti. 

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