The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 66 – https://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw66-2022 – begins on 14 March. Again, this year it is a virtual event, but Soroptimist International (SI) and Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) will have the opportunity to influence UN Policy and contribute to the Agreed Conclusions.
- Priority theme: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes;
- Review theme: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work (agreed conclusions of the sixty-first session);
Soroptimists will be attending virtual events, and will be providing blogs on what they have learned from the sessions, so do keep checking back to read the blogs provided, which are shown below.
25 March 2022 – SI’s Parallel Event
Blog by Helen Harvey, SI The Wrekin “This was my first time attending a Commission…
18 March: Empowering Women in the battle to combat Climate Change
By: Yvonne Freeman, Regional President, SI South East England and Member of SI Canterbury Hosted…
18 March: Links between Violence Against Children & Climate Change
By Helen Harvey, SI The Wrekin Presenters Tamara Tutnjevic, Dr Virgine Le Masson, Leah, Dr…
17 March: Nuclear Disarmament and Disaster Risk Reduction; Women and Girls in the Lead
By Mary Hession, SI Drogheda I feel that it is appropriate in the context of…
17 March: UN Secretary General
By Kay Richmond, Programme Director and Member of SI Cardiff and District UN Secretary General…
16 March: The Complexity of Human Migration and Climate Change
By Nisha Ghosh, Director of PR & Marketing and Member of SI Pune Metro East…
16 March: ‘Gaps, Challenges and Action for Climate Change
By Margaret Clark, SI Middlesbrough The learning opportunities at CSW66 are immense but it can…
15 March: The impact of climate change and Covid 19 on FGM and child marriage
By Carol Infanti, Assistant Programme Director Prosperity and Member of SI Medway and Maidstone There…
15 March: Girls voices: Taking Gender-Transformative Climate Action
By Carol Infanti, Assistant Programme Director Prosperity and member of SI Medway and Maidstone An…