Women & Girls Empowerment

Human Rights

GA 68 Panel on Traditional Values-Culture-Womens Rights

November 26, 2013

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Instruments and Structures, Special Procedures Mandate Holders, and Treaty Bodies, have published multiple texts that emphasize the importance of ensuring that “traditional values” are not elevated above universal human rights standards. They have highlighted the use of such terms to justify the marginalization of minority groups and for maintaining gender-based inequalities, discrimination and violence, and the corresponding need to position these terms within a human rights context. … Read More

Interfaith Dialogue

Commission on The Status of Women 57th Session

March 13, 2013

The fifty- seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place from March 4-15, 2013 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The priority theme for the fifty-seventh session will be the Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. … Read More

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Meetings & Events

Panel Discussion on Preventing and Ending Violence against Women with Disabilities

October 23, 2012

As a contribution to the 2013 General Assembly High-level Meeting on Disability and Development and the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations and the Permanent Mission of Armenia to the United Nations, together with the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DSPD/DESA), UN Women, Women Enabled, Women’s UN Report Network and the U.S. Federation for Middle East Peace, in collaboration with the National Organization for Women Foundation (NOW Foundation), organized a panel discussion on Preventing and Ending Violence against Women with Disabilities. Click for more information … Read More