An overview of UNDP's engagement at the 54th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to be held from March 1 to March 12, 2010.
This CSW is particularly notable as it will undertake a 15-year review of progress toward gender equality since the landmark Beijing Conference for Women in 1995. UNDP's focus during the CSW will be to underscore how progress on the Beijing Platform for Action’s 12 critical areas of concern will accelerate progress on the MDGs. Making this link – between gender equality and the MDGs – will also be important for the upcoming MDG Summit in September. The following Key Messages, Key Facts and event poster underscore this theme. UNDP is organizing, co-hosting and participating in several notable events during the CSW. They include panel discussions on: # The Price of Peace: Financing Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction. Co-hosted by UNDP and UNIFEM. Panelists include Mary Robinson Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative and formerly President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ingrid Fiskaa, Norwegian State Secretary for International Development, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, and Jordan Ryan, Assistant Secretary-General, and Director of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP.# Gender Equality and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for the MDGs. Co-hosted by The International Alliance for Women, GCCA, UNDP, UNIFEM WEDO. Panelists include, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, US Ambassador for Global Women’s Affairs, Heidi Hautala, Chair, Finnish Council for Gender Equality and H.E. Ambassador Claude Heller, Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Mexico.# Vision for a Better World: From Economic Crisis to Equality. Co-hosted by UNDP, IDRC and the Permanent Missions to the UN of Canada and Nicaragua. Panelists include Suzanne Clément, Coordinator/Head of Agency, Status of Women Canada, and Nafis Sadik, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Special Envoy for HIV/ AIDS in Asia.# Take Action Now: The Pathway from Beijing to 2015. Co-hosted by UNDP, UNIFEM and the Governments of Denmark and Egypt. Panelists include Elizabeth Salguero, Parliament of Bolivia, Emily Sikazwe, Executive Director of Women for Change, Zambia and Ines Alberdi, Executive Director of UNIFEM.# Launch of the Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, a UNAIDS event. Panelists include . Ms. Asha Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ms. Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator, Mr. Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director (moderator) and Annie Lennox, Advocate for women, girls and HIV.UNDP is also organizing and participating in panel discussions, breakfasts and side meetings on such topics as democratic governance and women’s rights; women, HIV and human rights; resourcing home-based caregivers in Africa; and ensuring women’s equitable participation and leadership in reconstruction in Haiti. For a complete list of side events involving UNDP, please see the attached flyer. Daily updates on CSW events and sessions will be posted on GenderNet. You can also view the main agenda and full list of side events on the official CSW website. For further information about UNDP’s participation in the CSW, contact Kim Henderson in the Gender Team.
An overview of UNDP's engagement at the 54th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to be held from March 1 to March 12, 2010.
This CSW is particularly notable as it will undertake a 15-year review of progress toward gender equality since the landmark Beijing Conference for Women in 1995. UNDP's focus during the CSW will be to underscore how progress on the Beijing Platform for Action’s 12 critical areas of concern will accelerate progress on the MDGs. Making this link – between gender equality and the MDGs – will also be important for the upcoming MDG Summit in September. The following Key Messages, Key Facts and event poster underscore this theme. UNDP is organizing, co-hosting and participating in several notable events during the CSW. They include panel discussions on: # The Price of Peace: Financing Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction. Co-hosted by UNDP and UNIFEM. Panelists include Mary Robinson Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative and formerly President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ingrid Fiskaa, Norwegian State Secretary for International Development, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, and Jordan Ryan, Assistant Secretary-General, and Director of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP.# Gender Equality and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for the MDGs. Co-hosted by The International Alliance for Women, GCCA, UNDP, UNIFEM WEDO. Panelists include, Ambassador Melanne Verveer, US Ambassador for Global Women’s Affairs, Heidi Hautala, Chair, Finnish Council for Gender Equality and H.E. Ambassador Claude Heller, Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Mexico.# Vision for a Better World: From Economic Crisis to Equality. Co-hosted by UNDP, IDRC and the Permanent Missions to the UN of Canada and Nicaragua. Panelists include Suzanne Clément, Coordinator/Head of Agency, Status of Women Canada, and Nafis Sadik, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Special Envoy for HIV/ AIDS in Asia.# Take Action Now: The Pathway from Beijing to 2015. Co-hosted by UNDP, UNIFEM and the Governments of Denmark and Egypt. Panelists include Elizabeth Salguero, Parliament of Bolivia, Emily Sikazwe, Executive Director of Women for Change, Zambia and Ines Alberdi, Executive Director of UNIFEM.# Launch of the Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, a UNAIDS event. Panelists include . Ms. Asha Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ms. Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator, Mr. Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director (moderator) and Annie Lennox, Advocate for women, girls and HIV.UNDP is also organizing and participating in panel discussions, breakfasts and side meetings on such topics as democratic governance and women’s rights; women, HIV and human rights; resourcing home-based caregivers in Africa; and ensuring women’s equitable participation and leadership in reconstruction in Haiti. For a complete list of side events involving UNDP, please see the attached flyer. Daily updates on CSW events and sessions will be posted on GenderNet. You can also view the main agenda and full list of side events on the official CSW website. For further information about UNDP’s participation in the CSW, contact Kim Henderson in the Gender Team.