CSW 2010: World YWCA ready to review the Beijing Platform for Action
A World YWCA delegation will head to New York City to participate in the fifty-fourth session of the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) from March 1 - 12, 2010.
The theme for the session will focus on reviewing and appraising the Beijing Platform for Action, which was drafted and adopted 15 years ago at the Beijing World Conference on Women.
The delegation will call on the Commission on Status of Women to consider new approaches-built from the accomplishments and challenges of the past 15 years-to accelerate transformative actions for women's empowerment and gender equality.
"World YWCA has participated at CSW since the start of the commission in 1948. As the leading international platform for advancing women's human rights, CSW continues to be an important event for the World YWCA," said World YWCA General Secretary Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda who will lead the delegation of over 40 women and young women along with World YWCA President Susan Brennan.
In partnership with Y Global of the YWCA-YMCA of Norway, FOKUS (Norway) and FemlinkPacific, the World YWCA will convene a workshop on 'Strengthening Community Capacities for Peace Building'. The event will bring women from the YWCAs of Palestine, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Fiji to share their experiences and learnings of conflict settings.
World YWCA will also host an intergenerational conversation on HIV, Universal Access and Reproductive Health and Violence Against Women in collaboration with UNFPA, UNDP, Global Coalition on Women and AIDS and UNAIDS to address the issues facing young women with key women leaders of the UN system. Confirmed panellists include UNFPA Executive Director and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations Thoraya Obaid, Realising Rights President and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Ines Alberdi, Executive Director of UNIFEM and Sally Moyle from the Australian Government.
A young women’s caucus will also be co-moderated between World YWCA and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) during the CSW to ensure young women and girls voices are heard throughout the event.
"The CSW provides an opportunity for the movement to build skills on advocacy while bringing its vast experience and perspectives on implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and refocusing for the future," says Gumbonzvanda.
World YWCA Events at CSW
‘Strengthening Community Capacity for Peace Building - YWCAs implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in Sudan, Sri Lanka and Palestine’
Friday, March 5
12pm-1.30pm
10th Floor room at the CCUN
‘An intergenerational conversation on HIV, Universal Access and Reproductive Health and Violence Against Women’
Friday, March 5
2pm
UN Millennium Plaza Hotel, One United Nations Plaza, 44th Street between First and Second Avenue
Young Women’s Caucus ( Moderated by World YWCA and the World Association Girls Guides and Girl Scouts)
Date: 1,3,5,8,10 March
Time: 5-7pm
Venue: UN Youth Section, Two UN Plaza, DC2-Level 13
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