tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87438644304361975732024-02-18T20:58:44.089-06:00Commission on the Status of Women 2015This is a Blog prepared by the National Council of Women of Canada on the upcoming meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women, to be held at the United Nations in New York from March 9 to March 20, 2015Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-50702965610517085742015-04-24T19:15:00.000-05:002015-04-24T19:15:18.398-05:00CSW59 - 21st Century Challenges to Cross Border Movements - Philippine Commission on Women<div class="MsoNormal">
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panel were: Ms. Jean Enriquez - CATW-AP (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
- Asia Pacific), Secretary Imelda Nicolas (Commission on Filipinos Overseas), Ms.
May-I Fabros (Philippine Commission of Women), Professor Aurora de Dios (Miriam
College), and Ms. Emmeline Verzosa (Philippine Commission of Women).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was a gender focus on migration in the context of natural disasters, climate
change, and armed conflict. There was a particular focus on the Philippines.
The panelists also discussed refugees that fled from the Gulf War, the Asian
Tsunami, and the Libyan crisis to name a few. Overall, these conflicts and
natural disasters have left millions displaced and seeking refuge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The
migration and refugee issue is quite pressing in the Philippines due to the typhoon
that devastated their country in 2013. Over 4 million people have been
displaced and 48% of those displaced are women. This displacement leads to the
vulnerability of women and a need to protect and promote the human rights of
women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> These conflicts and natural disasters have created long term impacts for many
individuals and affected communities. Due to the crisis, many refugees and
asylum seekers are smuggled and trafficked for labour and/or sex. Many women
are forced into prostitution in order to help their families due to the
desperate and terrible conditions that they are facing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> In
2013, there were 4.5 million refugees from Syria and many of these refugees get
caught in the crossfire, are raped, suffer from starvation, and are isolated, The refugees are also unable to receive aid if they are not registered in the
country which they are seeking aid. This poses other problems such as
children not being able to attend school and thus this continues the cycle of
poverty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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main problem is that there is no international legal framework that protects
these asylum seekers, despite the fact that it is a major issue affecting the
lives of millions. Movement is a sign of life and there needs to be more help
available to those in need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Suzie De Lucahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11137531487230759618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-58663693962856017332015-04-22T17:13:00.002-05:002015-04-23T11:05:56.542-05:00Report prepared by Ruth Suderman, Member of the University Women's Club of Winnipeg, and a Member of the NCWC Delegation<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consultation Day</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> (</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Celebrate
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1975 -2015</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">)</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This
opening event certainly felt like a celebratory welcome to delegates.
Everything from the opening songs by the Women of the World, the welcoming
messages by Soon-Young Yoon, Chair of NGO Committees on the Status of Women/New
York, and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General and Executive
Director, UN Women, the speakers and panelists throughout the day, provided
positive energy and food for thought.</span><br />
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were urged to look at progress in regard to the issue of violence against
women. As an example, domestic violence is now considered a crime. Education on
the issues of violence against women needs to occur at all levels. We need
equality across the board. "The world must change, not the women."</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Particularly
striking was the keynote address by Ruchira Gupta (Women of Distinction Awardee
and winner of a Clinton Global Citizen award) as she spoke about the issues she
raised in the production of the documentary "The Selling of
Innocents" and the fight to end sex trafficking in India. She urged us not
to settle for rescuing just the top portion of the girls in the lower rungs of
poverty but to work at helping the very last girl. </span></div>
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speakers and panelists urged us to:</span></div>
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"speak about feminist economy rather than women in poverty"</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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acknowledge </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">the diversity and
depth of the movement in various regions"</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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examine the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">fundamental
resistances</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> to the laws and tools
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examine why many women are still left behind in the present economic
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realize that the backlash is very strong, and particularly strong in extremist
places -- this is about us, all of us.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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realize that in some societies, patriarchy is used to create divisions between
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understand that political use/ misuse of religion is used to divide us</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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recognize that CEDAW helps to establish where we want to be.</span><br />
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Gertrude Mangella spoke about </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">What Beijing Plus
20 Must Accomplish.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> Some statements
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">"The
next conference in 20 years needs to be organized by women not yet born."</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">"We
need to pass the slow drivers in government."</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">"Support
the right women (stop supporting the right men.)"</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">"We
need to do our homework after this conference." Dr. Mangella was elected
to the pan-African parliament and then became its president. She saw this as
doing her homework from Beijing.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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a panel discussion in the afternoon, Mary Robinson, former Prime Minister of
Ireland, talked about the price that needs to be paid to achieve our goals and
the negative impact of climate change (omitted in Beijing) especially on women.
The young people spoke about their hopes for the future and the progress they
feel they have made to this point.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">This march was upbeat and celebratory. The
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session provided a needed overview of the history of the UN and the World Conferences
on Women, government meetings, parallel and side events. This was helpful for
me as someone new to CSW.</span></div>
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Access as a Key Driver of Gender Equality, Monday, March 9</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></u></b></div>
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this presentation by a panel, "energy is women's business" was at the
core of the presentation. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Access to clean
energy is crucial for women and children" as they are the ones who suffer
the most when clean energy is not available, The Beijing Platform did not touch
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estimated 4 million deaths due to kitchen pollution and smoky kitchens. Another
health concern is that the women were carrying 40 pounds of water on their
heads daily causing spinal injury and damage to reproductive organs.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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water, sanitation, clean energy (cook stoves) and electricity are not available,
women suffer disproportionately. Income generation also depends on available
energy.</span><br />
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the Invisible Visible: Partnering to End Violence Against Women and Children in
Rwanda, March 9</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></u></b></div>
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were shown the powerful results that can come from the collaboration of UNICEF,
Zonta and UN Women. The one- stop centers for medical and psychosocial care in
Rwanda for survivors of violence provide assistance to women in need.</span></div>
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CSW Forum Reception, March 9</span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The
NGO CSW Forum held a reception for all UN and NGO delegates attending CSW59 at
the Armenian Convention Center Ballroom. We were welcomed to the North
American/European section of the ballroom by Soon Young Yoon, Chair of NGO
Committees on the Status of Women. It was at this reception that Ruchira Gupta
was awarded the Woman of Distinction Award for 2015. There was a large buffet
available to all attendees. Music was provided by an all woman mariache band.</span></div>
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Empowerment . . . , March 10</span></u></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This
presentation provided information on an organization in Kenya (called JOYWO for
Joyful Women) that empowers rural women to take control of their lives. Women
are offered small loans to start small businesses, usually involving
agricultural production. JOYWO has facilitated the mobilization of
approximately 190,000 rural women into groups allowing them to raise capital
and make these small loans. Women have gained confidence and learned new
skills, especially when it comes to personal and small business finances.</span></div>
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to the success of the project has been the support of Her Excellency Mrs. Rael
Ruta, patron of the Joyful Women Organization.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Gender
Inequality and Climate Change - How to tackle a Double Injustice, March 10</span></u></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This
panel was chaired by Martha Chouchen-Rojas. The French minister, Pascale
Boistard's main point seemed to be that women in power at ALL levels of
government needed to take action. Mary Robinson echoed this and extended it
-"poor women are disproportionately affected by climate change." "Women
should be in all aspects of the climate change discussions." "Women
are in the front lines as climate change is happening." She observed this
first hand in her visits to Africa. Climate change discussions "need to be
people centered." Adaptations costs. We need more financing. Climate
change discussions need to recognize the different impacts on women and men.
"The climate world is still very male driven by science and numbers. A
gender balance is needed in these discussions.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Climate change is
the most serious human rights issue. "We are the first generation to see
its impact and the last generation to have time to do something."</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Lakshmir
Puri spoke more generally about the gender blind process till 2010. She would
like to see the term "women's empowerment" included in the
terminology of climate change discussions because it makes more developmental
sense.</span></div>
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Early and Forced Marriage </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">–</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> Indicators
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Honourable Dr. Kelly Leitch, Minister of Labour and Minister of Status of
Women, spoke about the fact that in Canada we have laws to prevent child, early
and forced marriage.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Greta
Rad Gupta talked about measuring progress: 1. Where we have been, 2. Where we
are going and 3. The role of data</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">700
million women alive today were married as children.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Salam
Kanaan from Jordan talked about the many Syrian refugees in Jordan. 630,00 are
registered but the government believes the true figure is around 1.5 million.
There has been an increase in the number of Syrian child marriages for several
reasons: protection, financial, male refugees can emigrate more easily if
married.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Hope,
a young woman from Kenya, spoke about the need for community sensitization, the
need for harsher penalties and stricter laws, and the need for parents to see
the benefits of education for girls.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Francoise
Girard from Women's Health Organization spoke of the need to take into account
the whole girl, the need to look at the root causes of child marriages like the
devaluation of girls. Schools need to be girl friendly and girl centered.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">She
urged us to go for one strong indicator of success in the upcoming years </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> eg. the percentage married at
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wondered why Canada had chosen to support this particular issue (although an
important one) when there are so many issues like murdered and missing
aboriginal women that affect so many more women in Canada.</span></div>
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Report of the Beijing Declaration at Twenty: Preventing Violence Against
Indigenous Women in the Western Hemisphere and Addressing Our need for
culturally Relevant Health Care Services, March 10</span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">At
the Beijing Conference, there were just a couple of references to indigenous
peoples, not enough. Indigenous women and girls are 8 more times at risk of
exploitation in the USA than the general population of women. Of concern is the
Keystone pipeline. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Man camps</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> along the pipeline prey on
vulnerable indigenous women. Mining and fracking are considered environment
violence, because water is contaminated. This affects reproductive
capabilities. Children are dying; this is seen as a form of genocide. However,
governments see this form of mining as development. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">We
need to learn to work with governments. Women need culturally specific
treatment in health care. The indigenous speaker from Ecuador spoke about some
hospitals for natural births and the use of mid-wives. Indigenous peoples still
need to be acknowledged as people with rights.</span></div>
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UN Security Council Resolution 1325 & CEDAW Women </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">–</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> Peace </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">–</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> Security,
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keynote speaker was Marilou McPhedran. She spoke about the legal framework for
peacebuilding, an antidote to legal and policy fatigue. We want to use legal
frameworks to shift the culture of violence (rape) to a culture of peace. She
outlined the various Security Council resolutions that are in place together
with the CEDAW GR 30 document. Her conclusion was that autonomous feminist
movements are the most powerful tool against violence.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This
panel became a very heated discussion on the issues facing the Iraqi people as
a result of the ISIS terror. Many times, the discussion and arguments tended to
diverge from a concentration on how the ISIS attacks and the resultant refugee
issues affected women to a general discussion of the impact on the country.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Canada
was #1 on the equality index in 1995; now we are #23. The five member panel
presented some powerful albeit disheartening information about the women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s movement in Canada. The
panelists were contributors and writers of the document </span><a href="https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2014/11/Progress_Women_Beijing20.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Progress on Women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s Rights: Missing in Action,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><a href="https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2014/11/Progress_Women_Beijing20.pdf" target="_blank"> </a>a shadow report on Canada</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s Implementation of the
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The women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s movement has
become fragmented because of government funding cuts and a change in focus. The
labour movement tries to support various projects but simply cannot replace
government. The labour movement has taken up such causes as child care and
violence against women. </span></div>
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We need a national action plan and policy to address violence against women.
This needs to include a stand-alone policy on intimate partner violence or
sexual assault.</span></div>
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The federal government funding shift to the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Housing First</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> model has not taken into
account the reasons for women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s homelessness.
Women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s homelessness
tends to be hidden and is often the result of violence. Due to the cut in
funding for the National Council on Welfare, there is no gender specific
information about women in poverty.</span></div>
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We need policies that focus on girls: regarding violence against girls, their
mental health and emotional well-being, and their education.</span></div>
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The federal government</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s cancellation of
the long-form Census has significantly hampered progress for women on many
fronts.</span></div>
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Women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s leadership in
civil society is critical. The resolution of the Security Council together with
CEDAW</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s work has laid the
legal groundwork for us. Autonomous feminist movements are the most powerful
tool against violence.</span></div>
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<i>Mary Scott, NCWC, introduces the session and panelists</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Gender
Equality and Aging Society: the Asian Perspective, March 13</span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The
panel brought varying perspectives to the discussion. The most valuable section
was some of the conclusions:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">-all
data be gender and age desegregated</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">-support
a long life learning approach to technology and aging</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">-strengthen
community networks</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">-make
the invisible visible</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">-integrate
aging into all policies (absent from Beijing)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Other
Meetings Attended:</span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Morning
Briefings March 11-13</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Daily
Canadian Government Briefings</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">A
CFUW Meeting</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Two
IFUW Breakfast Meetings</span></div>
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Comments</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I
found my experience at CSW59 to be exhilarating. Hearing so many perspectives
on gender issues, appreciating the diverse positive strides throughout the
world, I was moved by the efforts to improve the lives of women made by so many
people. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">It
is evident that a great deal of thought goes into the wording of the statements
and resolutions.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I
was impressed with the work being done in several African countries like Kenya
and Rwanda. These are tangible steps. I am disappointed in Canada</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s efforts in the area of
violence against women. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I
liked the fact that there was a large spread of age groups in attendance. This
is a hopeful sign. However, I hope the push to include aging women in the
language and the dialogue on all women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s
issues is heard.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Climate
change is having a disproportionately harder effect on women than men.
Something to think about.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Ruth
Suderman</span></i><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-11145808424702927782015-03-19T14:54:00.001-05:002015-03-19T15:04:20.914-05:00National Council of Women of Canada Signs on to the Regional Caucus Statement<br />
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<img alt="CSW59 Political Declaration: Women's organisations in Europe and North America call on UN member states to Commit, Accelerate and Invest in women's and girls' human rights" class="logo_article" src="http://www.womenlobby.org/local/cache-vignettes/L562xH281/arton7148-e5c63.png" height="160" style="height: 281px; width: 562px;" width="320" /></div>
<br />
NCWC along with many NGOs from the North American/European Caucus have signed on to a <a href="http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article7148&lang=en" target="_blank">statement, </a>stating that the political declaration is not an ambitious, serious and
forward-looking commitment and raises severe concerns for women’s
organisations.<br />
<br />
Women’s organisations should be supported to participate in the work of
the CSW and regional meetings on gender equality, including on the
post-2015 agenda, due to their instrumental role in promoting women’s
and girls’ rights. Women’s organisations and feminist groups should be
systematically included in national delegations to the CSW, given access
to negotiations, and be able to speak and intervene during general and
panel discussion.<br />
<br />
See the full statement <a href="http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article7148&lang=en" target="_blank">here. </a><br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-79348697341953800902015-03-19T13:28:00.000-05:002015-03-19T15:05:08.082-05:00Working Methods<div style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96) ! important; display: block; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 125%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is an important document, and it sets down the role of NGOs at the Commission on the Status of Women - will they have the ability to influence the negotiations that go on.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96) ! important; display: block; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 125%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96) ! important; display: block; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 125%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ALERT</span></span></div>
<div style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 150%; margin: 1em 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Negotiations
on the CSW Working Methods as agreed will be adopted tomorrow at the United
Nations.</span><br />
</div>
<div style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 150%; margin: 1em 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ngocsw.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=eb520eecfe82a5bf0d814ea1f&id=9fdff25e4f&e=26cbb50fe9" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #008688; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Read</a> 18th March version with facilitator's comments</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-25959039598117657762015-03-15T16:21:00.000-05:002015-03-16T09:32:19.567-05:00NCWC Delegate Sue Calhoun's Report<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just back from the first week of the 59th
Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York. This is a
two-week period each year where the 193 member countries of the UN are required
to come in, and report on what they're doing to improve the status of girls and
women in their country. It's about intergovernmental negotiations, although
since the governments are there, so are the women. Some 8,500 women
representing 1,000 NGOs world-wide are there this year. So while governments
negotiate, there are also “Side events,” with “high level” government
representatives that are held in the UN building, and “Parallel events,” held
in the UN Church Centre across the street plus other locations. This is my
sixth time in eight years, and I love it. Here’s a brief overview of some of
the many things going on. </span></div>
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<span class="hascaption"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo 1 – Apollo
Theatre</span></span><br />
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<span class="hascaption"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consultation day for
the NGOs is always held on Sunday. Organized by the NGO-SWC/NY committee, it’s
always a good chance to get a preview of what the issues are. This year, it was
at the Apollo theatre in NYC. How cool is that!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Theme this year, Beijing Plus 20,
celebrating The Beijing Declaration and platform for action, and assessing
where we go from here. Today, the phrase "Women's rights are human
rights" is so widely recognized that we tend to forget how difficult it
was to establish that concept a mere 20 years ago. The fact that so many
women’s groups come, as NGOS CSW/NY chair Soon-Young Yoon said Sunday, shows not
only important civil society has become to the UN but also how the UN has
become an extraordinary avenue to raise women's issues on the global stage </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo 4 - IWD March to Times Square on
March 8<sup>th</sup></span><br />
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<span class="hascaption"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Powerful address by
UN Women Under-Secretary-General Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at Consultation Day on
Sunday. Moving forward, she said, we need to focus not on what <u>needs</u> to
be done but <u>how</u> we will get it done. In the next 15 years, “we need to
break the back of inequality once and for all. This can be done. This is not
mission impossible. It is the last mile.” The objective now is Planet 50-50 by
2030. </span></span></div>
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<span class="hascaption"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wonderful as well to
see and hear from Dr. Gertrude Mongella, former Under-Secretary-General for the
UN Fourth World Conference on Women on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What
Beijing + 20 Must Accomplish.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="hascaption"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">March 9<sup>th</sup>, opening</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> - </span></span><span lang="EN-US">UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the CSW with a review of
progress since 1995, and called it unacceptably slow, with stagnation and even
regression in some cases. There are five countries in the world w/o a single
woman in parliament; eight w/o a female Cabinet minister. He wouldn't name them
- they know who they are. In his report, the SG said that progress has been particularly
slow for women and girls who experience multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination. He called for greater participation by men. "Truly
powerful men are those who work for the empowerment of women."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
synthesis of the SG’s report on the 20-year review and appraisal of the
implement of the Beijing Platform for Action can be found here. <a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2015/02/beijing-synthesis-report">http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2015/02/beijing-synthesis-report</a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CEDAW and Gender-based Violence: Progress
and Challenges 20 years after Beijing. Interesting panel discussion moderated
by Japanese Association of International Women’s Rights Board member Professor
Mitsuko Horiuchi. One of the panelists reminded us that Canada has been found
“in grave violation” under CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of all
kinds of Discrimination Against Women) for its treatment of Aboriginal women
and girls. A report out of Geneva on March 6<sup>th</sup> found that the
Canadian police and justice system have failed to effectively protect
Aboriginal women, to hold offenders to account, and to ensure victims get
redressed. CEDAW made 38 recommendations to correct the situation; Canada has
accepted 34. The US is one of the few countries in the world that has never
been a signatory to CEDAW.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monday afternoon, Status of Women and YWCA
Canada co-sponsored a session on cyber violence, and the list of speakers was
excellent. It included Glen Canning from Nova Scotia, Canada, whose daughter
Rehtaeh Parsons was a victim of cyber violence; Diane Woloachuk from the
Canadian Teacher's Federation; speakers from YWCA New Zealand, <a href="http://ourwatch.org/" target="_blank">OurWatch.org</a> in Australia,
Microsoft and the McGill Research Centre on emotional intelligence. SWC
Minister Kellie Leitch opened the session by pointing out that 84 percen<span class="textexposedshow">t of victims of cyber violence are women under the age of
24. "It's as powerful and painful as any other form of violence," she
said. Woloachuk from the Teacher's Federation noted that the safety zone for
girls is getting smaller and smaller. Students receiving mean messages through
social media take them seriously, become unable to learn and fall into
depression, she said. Excellent speakers, lots of good strategies, information
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"Ending child, early and forced marriages.” 700 million women in the world
were married off as children, and the consequences are disastrous: early
pregnancy with resulting health problems; no education; lost opportunities;
childhoods denied. GirlsNotBrides is a worldwide partnership of organizations
trying to end it.</span></span></div>
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the NGO Committee to Stop Trafficking in Persons on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What’s Changed, What needs to change since Beijing.”</i> Statistics on
Human Trafficking continue to worsen – HT is the fastest growing crime in the
world, after drugs and guns, a $150 billion industry – there are nonetheless
good examples of work being done to stop trafficking and rescue women and
children who have been victims. One is girlbeheard.org, which gives voice to
young women through video. Another is ungiftbox.org, an innovative project
created by STOP THE TRAFFIK and the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human
Trafficking launched during the 2012 London, England Olympics. GIFT boxes are
walk-in pieces of public art used to educate people about human trafficking. </span></div>
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the sessions is violence, defined broadly: domestic violence; rape and sexual
assault; child, early and forced marriage; FGM; honour killings; cyber
violence; prostitution; human trafficking; rape as a tool of war ... and the
list goes on. A common theme, the increasing need to engage boys and men. As a
speaker from the Nordic Network said Wednesday, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"We put all our energy into helping victims ... We talk to women
about escaping and <span class="textexposedshow">taking care of themselves. We need
to talk to boys and men because among them, we'll find the perpetrators."</span></i><span class="textexposedshow"> Attended a session Thursday sponsored by <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FPromundoglobal.org%2F&h=AAQHGbK98&enc=AZODuiWdvbqwyrbmg_fpQKmAtRwqq8T1KyBCpgVOoRAyxglWbWhzgaOH_QEIlBpeWRLk8HIW2FK6CrlWw8UPUiuaHFveaSp4cB6CUmnVjWArulJLo8koOX36lT5WGmxvrxYDz6dlJQcP-OWlhgmQomnhrF-H9-lZbFNJi0Wr2SldbQ&s=1" target="_blank">Promundoglobal.org</a>, an NGO that "works globally to
achieve a culture of nonviolence and gender equality by engaging men and boys
in partnership with women and girls." Founded in Brazil in 1997, the group
is supported by the UN, World Bank and World Health Organization. It is implementing
a program called MenCare+ in four countries. Another program is HeforShe.org,
which encourages men around the world to stand up for gender equality, and
which was launched at the CSW a few years ago. Still another program for men is
breakthrough.tv/ringthebell/, which is a grass-roots movement that encourages
men to actively interfere when domestic violence is occurring. I like this one,
although not sure about the safety of it in the Canadian context. We need to
start thinking more about this in Canada. </span></span></div>
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“good news” pieces from this year’s CSW is that the daily de-brief by the
NGO-SWC/NY committee is now back in the UN building. I’ve been going since
2008, and we’ve always been across the street at the UN Church Centre. But
civil society participation is now so large, that they’ve given us conference
room 1 in the UN building. As Chair Soon-Young Yoon said, we’re back! And we’re
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-79173711840474752015-03-15T15:02:00.000-05:002015-03-15T15:04:31.507-05:00Publice Space: Opportunities and Challenges for Empowering Women<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lasmi Puri spoke about how important public space is for women, and especially in cities. Increasingly the populations in the urban environment will become more and more common.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Impact of fear of sexual harassment, so don't go to school, or work. Income reduced, and poverty because of the situation. Land is empowerment for women, economic empowerment. Can exercise political and decision making leadership. Too often, cities are sources of exclusion. Cities not sensitive to the needs of women. <a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/creating-safe-public-spaces" target="_blank">Safe Cities</a> program, and s<a href="http://sustainablecities.net/" target="_blank">ustainable cities</a>, such as under Habitat 3 are great opportunities for women to learn and make a difference.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-69521641715189654012015-03-14T22:11:00.001-05:002015-03-15T15:11:44.786-05:00Beijing +20:Voices of Indigenous Women<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beijing + 20:Voices of Indigenous Women</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A full room, with opening remarks. Sponsored by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Women; the International fund for Agrcultural Development (IFAD) and the International Indigenous Women's Form (FIFI)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indigenous women are told they are dirty, don't know how to give birth, the women are fed up, Others being violent towards them, this was normal. Isolated group. Indigenous women from Latin America are fed up, Ingenious women did not give up, they resisted, and were dignified. Fed up with being relegated to jails, and torture chambers. They are amazing creative, and brilliant. First resolution, fed up, reached out to us women that don't want to see any more women vitimized. Anxious to move move forward. Gender equality not just in name, "I learned from the different peoples that as long as a collective feeling for emancipation we can move forward." 20 years after Beijing, we have great expertise and wisdom, 80% of population have 5% of global wealth, We see majority of children didn't have birth certificates. 1.7 million girls trafficked. We are statisticked out. We don't want to be numbers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Multisectoral, and Intersectionality of issues - Important to protect biodiversity. One of the prime agents for environmental preservation. High levels of discrimination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reference to Report, just completed. Gender goal, achieving gender equality, leaving no one behind. Indigenous women are part of this. All the targets, we need to develop strategies for those countries with Indigenous populations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distinction to preserve social norms that are discriminatory towards women. How to combine, the Indigenous women with progressive norms, which are feminist in the true sense of the word. Eliminating discriminating legislation. How to combine the best of the tradition with the best of feminist knowledge. Political Declaration, sectn. 6, Engaged with a number of countries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaker from Phillipines - women speak about lack of land rights, before speaking about violence. women's rights seen as individual rights. Indigenous women introduced the concept of community. Holistic way women can play an important role. Important role in preserving biodiversity. Reports have been done to build on these strengths.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ms. Aminatu Samiratu Bambo, from Lelewal Foundation Women's Coordinator from Cameroon. UN Women scholarship - Spoke about situation in Cameroon, early marriage, GBV, no harmonizion of legislation with international agreements. Need for capacity buiding, want the next CSW to focus on women's issues and priority. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Need more countries - have 13. Would be able to do more. Forum for contributing our solutions. Success with permanent forum - recommendations for Indigenous children. Many aspiring examples, 3 generations, forge alliances. Multi dimensional, different departments, Agriculture, education, women, still countrires where we are invisible. Indicators so we can show we are making progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wondered why Canada's Indigenous women were not part of this panel. The president of NWAC was in the audience. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-11679259381222013092015-03-14T14:38:00.001-05:002015-03-16T09:32:57.464-05:00CSW Working Methods Document<h4 style="color: #606060 !important; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 40px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 125%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
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on the CSW Working Methods will continue 16 to 20 March.<br /><br />Click <a href="http://ngocsw.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb520eecfe82a5bf0d814ea1f&id=ec42831503&e=26cbb50fe9" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #008688; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a> for 4 March version with facilitator's comments.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-74400157706648654832015-03-13T15:08:00.001-05:002015-03-13T15:08:00.284-05:00Women and Girls in STEM<div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Women in STEM fields is a passion of mine, being a women in science. This event created dialogue across nations about getting women involved in science. There were representatives from India, Latvia and the United States. Several barriers were discussed to getting women into STEM fields.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Teaching Women Science</div><div>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Making science engaging and an active learning process. Actually doing science when teaching science and ensuring that science is taught with a gender neutral lens that both boys and girls can relate to. </div><div><br></div><div>Implicit Violence Present in Science</div><div>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Everyone engages in life with inherent and ingrained biases and assumptions. Science and scientists are painted as unbiased, which is untrue. When hiring scientists and funding science, social stereotypes have been shown into coming into play. A candidate is seen to be less capable and less qualified if a female name graces the top of a resume. This leads to women not moving up in science and leaving science in frustration. These inherent biases need to discussed and realized so they can be countered when attempting to get women to participate in science in a real and meaningful way. </div><div><br></div><div>The Image of STEM </div><div>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The image of who goes into science tends to be socially awkward, unattractive, and male. These representations of scientist in mainstream media work to present an image that work around the idea that normal people don’t go into science. Scientist are odd, tend to be awkward loners with no fiends or family, also incapable of having a family. Work in being untaken partnering with Hollywood to make science seem more normalized and accessible to women and people in general. Also incorporating the broad spectrum of what STEM careers look like. A scientist doesn’t always mean a solitary person in a lab coat, someone who shoots lasers, or someone who sits in an office with equations covering the walls. Scientists have families, friends, and social aspects to their lives like everyone else. Working to represent that in media and changing the face of who is a scientist is half the battle. </div><div><br></div><div>Women have specific work life balances that need to be accommodated in the field of science and every workplace. There needs to be re-entry points for women who take time off to care for family members. Creating a work environment where women feel supported and encourage women to grow makes it possible to move toward diversity within science, because “Science needs women and women need science.”</div><div><br></div><div>The one thing I was hoping to have discussed is the competitive rather than collaborative nature of science. In my own experience, I found that unwillingness to work with each other and share knowledge was a huge barrier to participating in the possibility of transformative science. I feel real collaboration also breeds inclusivity. With this in mind we all move forward in creating a world where women are welcome all sectors of work, especially science. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714075600683691490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-75612755911989434552015-03-13T05:44:00.000-05:002015-03-15T15:10:34.007-05:00Counterterrorism and effects on women's organizatios<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Counterterrorism Measures and their Effects on the Implantation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was a very interesting presentation, with those involved with various aspects of funding women's organization, in particular women's organizations working on Peace and Security, and how they are affected by current counterterrorism financial regulation that is in fact counter productive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Isabelle Geuskens, Executive Director, Women Peacemakers Program</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lia van Broekhoven, Executive Director, Human Security Network </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anjuman Ara Brgum, Steering Committee Member, WinG India</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jayne Huckerby, Associate Professor of Law, Director International Law Clinic, Duke University</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Speaker 1, counterterrorism (CT) measures, task force antimoney laundry. FATF (Financial Action Task Force) Standards based on funding of terrorist organizations. Used as a pretext in some countries to affect civil society groups. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Banks averse, so groups carry money, or go underground. US very effective in controlling FATF, other countries must get involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lawyer from University, Jayne Huckerby spoke of current efforts, countering CT. Counterterrorism financing, enabling men. Women as victims. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Emerging trends, transfer funds, but funds disappear. Told couldn't open bank account. Many groups being asked, realize because of counterterrorism regulations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Working on Women Peace and Security agenda, variety of measures affect women's groups already working in hi threatening environment. Relations with foreign donors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Banks don't have leverage, asking for detailed accounts. Women in the midst of the crises not able to access funds. Administration burden, and access to funding becoming more and more difficult. Solutions, low profile, carrying money, increasingly dangerous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Raising awareness important. Breaking the silence. Need more research. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Speaker on funding women's organizations. Growing administrative burden. range of options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Suggestion of networking with unions. Policy incoherence. Within the same government. Antiterrorism, anti money laundry. Need more evidence, documenting evidence. Need a Core set of principals. Charity and security network. Money going to big organizations, such as Amnesty, Red Cross, but it is the smaller groups that are doing the work, and keeping system going.</span><br />
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Girls act for Change, Girls act for Peace: Empowering Girl
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Opening remarks and welcome, Susan Truppe, parliamentary
Secretary for SWC and Ambassador Guillermo Rishchynski, permanent mission of
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Mavic Cabrera-Balleza spoke about lives of girls, and
harmful practises. Multiplied many times in countries affected by war. Global
Network of Girl Ambassadors for Peace, 3 components, literacy, leadership,
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Girls Ambassadors for Peace conduct literacy classes in
eastern Congo. Dedicated workshops, on issues they confront, early marriage,
sexual violence, fgm etc. included peace building, because of nature of
conflicts in the area. Implementing program in south Sudan as well. In
Afghanistan, replicate program. </div>
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Congo. Has coordinated program for girls in the Congo. Was to bring young girl
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Spoke about importance of education. Early marriage,
attitude, cultural expectation. Teach girls how to access justice. Global
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colleague Janna Barkman. Jazmin spoke about VOW, and support for the democratic
participation. The <a href="http://vowpeace.org/peace-maker-camp/" target="_blank">kit</a> is in 18 modules so lots of options as to how it is
used. Being used in the Congo, and soon in S. Sudan and Guatemala. </div>
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Mavic - Loved tool kit, policy isn't everything,
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Including boys is also part of tool kit, and in Congo. </div>
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young women together, to share. Needs international connection. We should be in
a circle, share. Needs to invest in peace not arms. Spoke of yuzzi women.
Physically traumatized. Come together in a circle. Go behind headlnes. Invest
in peace, not war. </div>
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Cordaid, a Dutch based Foundation, concerned about no
adequate funding, to right group. Arms trade agreement, meeting funding
requirements, peace keepers who are protecting civilians who are being attacked
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the UN, Simone Filippini spoke about support vs ownership. How many times have
we done this - unleashing positive energy before. Defining security. Collective security. How to support girls
programs, and signing arms agreement - both necessary.</div>
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This has been the most fulfilling event I have attended as of March 11th AM. The event was sponsored by the YWCA (insert countries). A panel of young women sat at the front of the room while people continued to squeeze in a tiny room. The emcee from Australia welcomed everyone and proceeded to recognize the indigenous land we were on and explained why it is important to acknowledge the effects of colonization across the world. The panel began with a young school teacher from YWCA in Honduras. She pointed out that stereotypes are culturally specific and some cultures are more male driven. She then did an over arching historical overview of women’s labour has affected stereotypes and touched on how media can be a tool of change, but is frequently a tool to perpetuate these stereotypes. </div>
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The second speaker, who identified herself as an Indian migrant growing up in New Zealand, opened with a Maouri (indigenous people of NZ) greeting. Again respecting the land and acknowledging the colonialist context in which we live. She describes living in a culture where you must respect your elders and to challenge them can be seen as disrespectful and inappropriate. Culture is used as an excuse for abuse and as women we need to shift culture and hold people accountable for there actions no matter there culture. She went on to discuss her experience with her male feminist friends, that have marched in anti-rape culture rallies and identified as feminist, but when she had mentioned that her partner is going to stay home with the kids, they could not let go of their ingrained cultural stereotypes to be support that idea. Which I think is a common experience for many. </div>
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Laurie Gayle of YWCA-Scotland had some very interesting things to say. She also announced a pilot report from the government called the Status of Young Women Report. This report works to gather cross-sectional data to better understand the specific needs of young women to better serve them and empower them. “One of the first things girls experience are stereotypes, it causes women to hesitate.” They hesitate and doubt themselves as to if they can really do it. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I went to this event for information as to how to promote women in political leadership and how to get more women there. 40% of the panel spoke in languages other than english with no translation available, but their passion and frustration was fully felt through the tone of their words. The panel was a cross section of high level women in government from countries across the world, most touched how the support system surrounding them allowed them to get to where they are today.</span></div>
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As H.E. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka time came to speak of her experience becoming a woman in her position, the room perked up to listen to what she had to say. She began with her attitude as a young women working in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and how she was more than willing to die for her cause because the threat of death was very real for her at that moment in her life. She looks back now on her younger self and shakes her head, over time she developed a type of resilience and a need to live, so she could insight change and continue her valuable work. She went on to reflect that many people she grew up with and went to school with have now perished or been exiled, and that she is very lucky to be where she is today. </div>
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Girls Ambassadors for Peace conduct literacy classes in eastern Congo. Dedicated workshops, on issues they confront, early marriage, sexual violence, fgm etc. included peace building, because of nature of conflicts in the area. Implementing program in south Sudan as well. In Afghanistan, replicate program. </div>
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Neema Namadamu 2nd woman to graduate from University. Has coordinated program in the Congo.</div>
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Jazmin, developing training materials. Spoke about VOW, democratic participation. Kit in 18 modules. Being used in the Congo, and soon in S. Sudan and Guatemala. </div>
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Mavic - Loved tool kit, policy isn't everything, implementation, action important. Including boys is also part of tool kit, and in Congo. </div>
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Yusur Al-Bahrani, from VOW Toronto. The theme of bringing young women together, to share. Needs international connection. We should be in a circle, share. Needs to invest in peace not arms. Spoke of yuzzi women. Physically traumatized. Come together in a circle. Go behind headlnes. Invest in peace, not war. </div>
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Coraid, no adequate funding, to right group. Arms trade agreement, meeting funding peace keepers who are protecting civilians who are being attacked with arms sold by same governments! </div>
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Ambassador phillipine. Support vs ownership. How many times have we done this unleashing positive energy before.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-53246415143771371772015-03-12T06:21:00.000-05:002015-03-15T15:21:26.480-05:00Unsafe Abortion, A Leading Cause of Death<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E18" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hosted by the </span><span id="E19" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development as part of the mammoth Commission on the Status of Women programme, the presentation on sexual and reproductive health described the stark reality for women who lack access to safe abortion or birthing procedures.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E22" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There are 20 million women and girls who undergo unsafe abortion every year,” said Dr. Angela Diaz, Professor of </span><span id="E24" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pediatrics</span><span id="E26" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and Preventative Medicine</span><span id="E27" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span id="E28" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and Director of the Adolescent Health </span><span id="E30" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Center</span><span id="E32" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> at Mount Sinai Hospital.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E38" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span id="E39" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inserting </span><span id="E41" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">coathangers</span><span id="E43" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, sticks, bicycle spokes, knitting needles; ingesting toxic substances like laundry detergent or turpentine, or strong prescription drugs intended to treat diseases like malaria; throwing themselves down stairs or off roofs to induce trauma that leads to abortion; all because they have no access to safe legal options,” Diaz said.</span></span><br />
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<span id="E46" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Unsafe abortion is one of the leading causes of death around the globe… every year 47,000 women and girls die from complications from unsafe procedures.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E49" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diaz also claimed </span><span id="E50" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">25 per cent of adolescent girls who </span><span id="E52" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">check in to Mount Sinai have</span><span id="E54" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a history of childhood sexual abuse.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E57" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The panel of scholars, social workers and medical professionals emphasised the damaging</span><span id="E61" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> effects of gender inequality and intrusion on women’s rights worldwide. </span><span id="E63" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Manre</span><span id="E65" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span id="E67" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chirtau</span><span id="E69" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, a young activist fighting for sexual health services in Nigeria and internationally, said there are 13 million births to girls between the ages of 15 and 19 each year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E72" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbara Young, National Organiser at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, claimed only 27 </span><span id="E74" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">per cent</span><span id="E76" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of work visas given to migrant workers are held by women, making migrant women wh</span><span id="E77" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">olly dependant on their husbands’ income for survival.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E80" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span id="E81" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When they have no visa, it entraps them in abusive and exploitative situations, </span><span id="E82" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with little or no legal recourse, a lack of knowledge of their rights, language barriers,” Young said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E85" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Sexual and reproductive rights </span><span id="E88" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">violations</span><span id="E90" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> can happen as soon as they leave </span>home… the fear of deportation compels them to stay with their abusers.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E93" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While the panellists’ shocking statistics were met with disbelief and anger from the audience, closing speaker Dr. Gita </span><span id="E95" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen</span><span id="E97" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> spelt out hope for the future, and how closing the gender gap could bring about a brighter future.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E100" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population at Harvard University, and General Co-Ordinator of DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), </span><span id="E102" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen</span><span id="E104" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> said </span><span id="E105" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eliminating intimate partner violence would bring a US$4.4 trillion benefit to the globe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="E108" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Closing the gender gap in </span><span id="E110" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">labor</span><span id="E112" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> force participants would raise global GDP [gross domestic product] by 12%… universal access to sexual and reproductive services would return US$120 for each $1 spent. That would yield US$400billion in annual benefits.”</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-84931325358370224302015-03-11T13:24:00.001-05:002015-03-15T15:19:26.657-05:00Step It Up<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A number of presentations on Violence - coordingated by UN Women Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (Ex. Dir.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the reports from Australia, National Action Plan described by Senator Michella Cash. System talking to one another. Funding research. Continue to build evidence base. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Young man from India talked about needing cultural change - need education, teaching young boys. Talked about a group that demonstrated in Delhi, demanding changes on the streets. Reached 5.5 million people through social media. Gender sensitizing important at all levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Report by Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, SASG on Sexual Vioence in Conflict, missing link are resources needed. Vioence continues after the conflict, resources needed, and laws enforced, and Police trained.Spoke passionately about what she is seeing now, with the very deliberate killing of girls and women in conflict situations. How much terrorism there is and impunity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spoke about moving forward, women forming music groups, do own organizations, survivor led organizaitions. Need commitment</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Setting up objectives, short term, and long term. Tools - mainstreaming, sharper way, so can measure. Gender budgeting crucial. Leadership at highest level very important. Men's involvement very important. Champion has to do things. Women's Rights defenders must be supported.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaker on the Forum which resulted on the Feminist Agreements and Demands, New Action on Women's Rights. Economic Rights - have a come long way, very specific areas need more action. When negotiate wages, always seems other things more important. Working together, Sweden and Norway. Iceland made real headway in terms of care of children. 40 years ago, common for government to work with NGOs, now legislation in one room, and NGOs in another room. we need to talk again. Why the book distributed (Feminist Agreements and Demands, so important.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Progress - violence against women, supposed to work in gender paradise. Women still blaming themselves, 30% of women only report in Iceland. Because of shame and guilt. Have to include perpetrators. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is UN Women doing? Nordic model is attainable. What they have gained. Seem to have strong relationship to government working with women. Setting high bench marks. Have to find ways to get developing countries to take on this project. Universal value - G77 summit. Bring out human rights aspect to development. Right to development, individually and collectively. Right to development being promoted by developing countries, but developed countries rejected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Umbrella organizations important. Enhances strength of lobbying. How to make feminism cool again.? Need to educate men. Have to do preventative work. Education continues very important, having necessary resources. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Women taking over responsibilities for themselves and their countries. Together with UN Women Rights and Development are consistent, and totally convergent, to be as effective as possible. Those not resisting fundamentalism, don't respect womens equality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Religion extremism, submision of women, no religion advocates for that. Male superiority, fuel themselves on gender inequality, segregation. unspeakable suffering of women by ISIS. Bhoko Harem too. Inflict worst attrocities. Shocks human conscience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In France, girls organizing, showing determination. In Algeria, in Tunisia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nigeria: women held captive, girls and other civilian. Areas being targeted, Large civilian population, as well. Civilian nature of many of these areas. Displacement. Facing mirad of challenges - last couple of year, impact disproportionalte on women. Women in many camps, situation dire. Not enough toilets, or water. Security at risk than men in the camp. Even once they flee, and find safety in a camp. Social, cultural rights - Country introduced curfew, impact on women - taxi drivers who took women to hospital to give birth - no longer provided. Collapse of health system. Response to that - Access to justice. serious barriers before, but now much worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Due dilligence - Army had prewarning but did not do anything. moving into post conflict state, need to protect woemn human rights defenders. Women human rights defenders particularly targeted. Issue of participation. in the formal peace process, at all levels. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-55238623517465241382015-03-10T13:31:00.003-05:002015-03-11T06:30:51.768-05:00Gender Inequality and Climate Change: How to tackle a Double Injustice<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">panel presentation, including Mary Robinson!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First speaker, Pascale Boistard, from France. Women first to be affected. Women will have to migrate, exposes to violence. As well as economic impacts, physical impacts. Women have special knowledge. Voice for better use of natural resources. Voice for speaking for natural resources. Wonen's footprint not as large as men. Women become catalyst for change. Women participate in allaspects of climate change, production, policy, decion making. Number of movements which we must listentoo. Women united, women empowered. At local, all levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So obvious, climate injustice, gender injustice. Very linked, human rights and gender equality. Negotiating improved in Geneva. Strong pressure for gender equality and human rights. Recognition in all cross cutting themes. Linking women in decision making with women in front line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Has to have people centered agreement. Women understand that. Womens voices and supportive men! Have to get finances into agreement. Focus on different impacts of climate change on women and men.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Working in Africa saw affects of climate change. This is the human rights challenge of the century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lakshmi Puri, from UN Women, - Gender, Justice, and Gender Justice must come togther. Agreement, imbedding gender empowement in the agreement. All the steps done, force door open! France host of COPP, have 2 major leaders with France and Mary Robinson. Stars aligned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elements, Geneva text, preamble, womens empowerment should be included in the preamble. Empowement of the people good for the planet. Section on mitigation needs work. Land tenure, land security, make the case for gender equality. Have to find champions. Have to get support of countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nearly 5 times more girsl than boy are married before age 18. An important indicator to to include. This can be tracked. Son't be sidetracked, this one imporant, and can be tracked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 31% of countries girls ccan be leegally married younger than boys. Numbers of adolesents growing. National targets will be critical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have much to build on. Evidence works, keeping girs in schools. Must keep as an indicator.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">situation inJordan, 1 million refugees, and 50% are women, and 50% are young. Increase child marriage, Rising rates, 25% in Jordan. Reasons, protection, of girs, from sexual assault. Easing economic production. Secondary reasons, if married before in syria, chances if married to leave camp. What are working, prevention aspect,. How to end? Economic incentives. Life skills, so can resist, getting married. Embracing education. Continuous empowerment of cultural leaders. Teach the community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So many have laws, but not enforced. How do we get countires to enforce what laws they have? There are many loop holes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Women's Health Coalition, Have experience, need to take into account the whole girls, not a single bullet, that will address child marriage. Range of things tt will prevent and stop child marriage. Can not be addressed by one intervention, Enamoured with single intervention. Won't work with child marriage. Programs must deal with Root Causes - unequal gnder norms, and gender roles plays a major role. Men control women's roles, including sexuality. Investment in girls educaiton and health. Address obvious barriers to gir's achievements. Not just about enrolling girls in schools, but what is happening in the schools, are school leadership roles reserved for boys. Comprehensive sexual education which UNESCO has done. Transform the schoolprograms. Make sue girls are school sensitive and school friendly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Princess Mabel Van Orande, Need an Indicator, Easy one, All agreed! Identify gaps and challenges. What is process for developing indicators. Theory of change - should start with articulation of problem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How to evaluate - work on multilayers.Community leaders. Combination - protections, and enhancing economic opportunities. Attainment of rights - right now, denisal of rights, education for example. In jordan, legal age is 18, but not followed. Add additional question of who is married before age of 15. Very ealy marriage. Other goals being suggested for SDGs that will be helpful. Knowledge of sexuality education for example.</span><br />
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<li>Gender issues, other side not perfect without the other. Story of creation. Equal enjoyment of paradise. Equality before the law. Holy Koran, give more respect to the women. </li>
<li>Issue of hitting, FGM, early marriage - not in Koran. Where does it say women can't drive? Not everything in Muslim land rooted in the Koran.</li>
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Inheritance, up to now, women don't inherit equally. Working outside the home, so should they inherit same, more? Higher divorce rates.<br />
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Muhamed's wife worked. Issue here is about balance. There is a mutual responsibilty. About flexibilty.<br />
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Woman who is married and has kids, wants to become Muslim. Yes, can become Muslim. Discussion amoung scholars on inheritance, about justice, and fairness. Women have right to inheritance. First step. We are not stopping, opening horizons in interpretation of Holy Koran.<br />
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Experience of African women, women have always worked. Opening saloons, opening shops in Mew York. Street vendors. Find economic means. Men though make decisions about how money being spent. Women pay into mosque, but not told how money is spent. Men control bank accout. Question about class, not about religion.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743864430436197573.post-57694642669092375842015-03-10T07:31:00.005-05:002015-03-10T07:31:58.688-05:00Address by UN Under-Secretary-General<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wonderful as well to see and hear from Dr Gertrude Mongella, former Under-Secretary-General for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women on "What Beijing plus 20 Must Accomplish." Always an inspiration! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First speaker, on the arab spring, it didn't turn to spring, but hell. Fighting backlash. Talking now about early marriage, arab apring, talking peace and security. Women suffering in thistransition, 2011, we aspired to new society,getting rid of dictatorship. Time for women's voices to be heard. 2011, goal to get past the debate, women's voices would be heard. New concerns emerged to shake democracy. In Egypt, many women assaulted. Rape took place in the square, assaultedby police. Last killing in February, this year - ordinary people celebrating, woman killed. Women targeted in Lybia and Egypt, Fundamentalism, very strong, in Lybia and Morocco, making deal at expense of women. Lybian leader, brought in polygamy. "Complementary" to men. Arab world being shaped, how rights being affected. Growing violence. Human rights defenders killed in Liberia. GBV should have laws to protect women, rigerous prosecution. Specific measures, and resources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Thailand, spoke of local peoples and movement. Post SDGs, model we've had increasing acquiring power, trade exploited workers. Wealth acquired in fewer hands. Financialization of resources, minerals. Human rights, govt subservient to economic strengths. Financial security, economic security most important. Creation of rights market. Water rights, land rights, Asia investment, nature and people, bringing women into market. Global markets in Asia. Provide labour, privatization, in all sectors, land, forest , water, capture of the commons. Investors protected by law. No protection for local communities. States are part of this. Internatioanal financial institutions part of it. Militarization comes first. Green greenalliance. Have to have human rights first, before economic, and financial demands. State have to be held accountable. Need human rights audit. Debt cancellation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Global discussion is needed. Grassroots organizations. Need tranformative agenda. H R development and peace. UN member states, civil society, 2 tracks, sdg's and sec general outcome document. Now coming together. Overall support, 17 goals. Unpaid care work, integrating gender perspective in all the indicators. Human rights, no discussion on current development model. Current model not working so why focus on integrating everyone. Integration of reproductive. rights. Militarization, leading to protecton of companies by governments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How to do own research, participation, check list. Muti stakeholders, with everyone, including land owners, companies, and communities, knowledge production. Unions, displaced communities. Togther. What can urban consumers do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As I walked into the overflow chamber to watch the live stream of the official opening of the CSW, I was overwhelmed by the amount of women in the room, each wearing there national pride on there sleeve and ready to get down to the business of gender equality. Though the opening was bitter sweet, as we all reflected on Beijing Platform of Action and how no country was able to attain gender equality, a renewed sense of hope and commitment was building in the room as speaker after speaker brought context and experience to the largely etherial goals that are being discussed at this years CSW. </span></div>
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After rounds of applause and cheers of support for many speakers who came before her a determined young women took the podium by the name of Alaa Murabit. Alaa Murabit is a Saskatoon woman who moved in Libya when she was 15. Her short and impassioned speech articulated the need for building bridges across generations and working with each other. She swiftly points out that our mother’s and our grandmother’s generations of women were the original rule breakers, and the young women of today learned our passion, our eagerness, and our resolve from the generations before us. The need to move forward recognizing the work of previous generations and building on top of it together. This woman simultaneously thanked and united generations with a few short sentences and then moved onto her experience of starting her own organization when she was 21, called the Voice of Libyan Women, in which she became one of Moammar Gadhafi’s 11 most-wanted women. Living through a dictatorship, a revolution and a civil war, she discussed the need for women to be part of the peace process and how they are “leading the fight against extremism by challenging its root cause. <b>[…] the price of admission for a seat at peace talk seems to be a weapon</b>.” She pushes people to use informal education and words as weapons to tear down systems of oppression. Peace must involve the communities, happen day by day, and across genders with the guidance and assistance of those who came before. </div>
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Though all the speakers were engaging and passionate, Alaa Murabit touched my heart with her uniting words that spoke to forward motion toward equality, across gender, religion, sexuality and cultural background. </div>
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I encourage you to read her whole speech at the link below and here is a supplementary CBC article for more background. <br />
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatchewan-woman-alaa-murabit-was-one-of-gadhafi-s-most-wanted-1.2854924">Alaa Murabit CBC News Article</a></div>
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