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WGG Statement to CSW 56
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Calling All Past Youth Delegates to CSW
A wide view of the General Assembly as Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro (on screens) addresses the opening of the fifty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz
Have you attended the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) as a student or youth delegate?
Did your experience at CSW inspire you to
- share the stories you heard with others
- act differently with your friends or in your community
- or to find a way to respond to the issues affecting women and girls in your area or around the world?
For this year’s 56th CSW, we want to hear from YOU.
The power of the CSW can be found not only in the resolutions and discussions amongst governments and international leaders, but also in the localized actions carried out by CSW participants in their own lives, communities, and nations. This year the Loretto Community, along with the Working Group on Girls (WGG) is planning an event that will share the stories of past CSW youth participants and the ways in which they have sought to initiate change for women and girls because of their previous experiences at the CSW. One way we hope to do this is through a video compilation of stories of youth from around the world who have found unique and creative ways, both large and small, to bring the CSW home and continue to affect the lives of women and girls.
Download a flyer with more information! (Flyers are available in English, French and Spanish)
CALLING ALL PAST YOUTH DELEGATES TO CSW
Related articles
- Working Group on Girls: Girl Advocates 2011-2012 (girlsrights.org)
- Girls as leaders for future youth revolutions to be trained in downtown Manhattan Sunday (girlsrights.org)
- A Teenager in NYC: My Time at the United Nations (girlsrights.org)
Action for Girls – July 2010
The July issue of Action for Girls, the newsletter of the NGO Committee on UNICEF, Working Group on Girls (WGG) and the International Network for Girls (INfG) is available on-line in English, French and Spanish.
Articles include:
WGG Prepares Fact Sheet on Girls and MDGs – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend the Millennium Development Goals Summit on 20-22 September 2010 in New York City to accelerate progress toward the achievement of the MDGs by 2015. To prepare for the Summit in September, on 14-15 June the General Assembly held Informal Interactive Hearings with representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations, which provided the governments with clear, concise statements on how to move forward to achieve the MDGs. WGG distributed to the participants a fact sheet on the eight MDGs entitled “Out of the MDG Shadows: Girls and Why They Matter” http://www.girlsrights.org/Fact_Sheets.html. For each of the eight MDGs the fact sheet lists Gaps in Progress and Recommendations.
Climate Change Affects the Girl Child – It is an acknowledged fact that when climate change strikes, people living in poverty, 70% of whom are women, are in the frontlines. Girls, however, are rarely mentioned in these accounts of climate change. Why?
Ritha Baraka, Social Worker from the Congo, Speaks at WGG - Ritha Baraka, a social worker at Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), spoke about her work with raped and sexually abused women and girls at the WGG meeting on 6 May 2010. Speaking with Baraka were Scott Blanding and Greg Heller (Women in War Zones), who have made a film about sexual violence against women in war zones that features Panzi Hospital.
Girls Respond to CSW 54 – Dozens of girls from all over the world had the opportunity in March 2010 to attend the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. Thanks to the NGOs that sponsored their participation, they were able to talk with girls with the same interests coming from different cultures and having different backgrounds. Together they built a web of contacts and connections, learned about their human rights as girls, and improved their skills of advocacy at the United Nations.
STEM Will Be Theme of CSW in 2011 – The 55th session of the CSW in 2011 (28 February through 11 March) will have as its theme: “Access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s access to full employment and decent work.”
WGG Member Joins Plan Advisory Panel – Catherine Moore and Mary Ann Strain, co-chairs of The Working Group on Girls, are proud to announce that Yvonne Rafferty, Professor of Psychology at Pace University, who represents the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), has been appointed to Plan International’s “Because I am a Girl” advisory panel.
Visit http://www.girlsrights.org/Newsletter.html to read, download or print a copy.
Girls from Around the World Talk about their Rights
A UNICEF-organized event in New York on March 4 marked the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. Adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, the Beijing Platform is the world’s most comprehensive framework for achieving gender equality.
At the close of the discussion, Donnady Coquila Lao, a youth advocate from the Philippines, suggested celebrating an International Day of the Girl. Then, all girls will realize how important they are, she said.