Sessions covered: Leaving no child behind: Ending social discrimination that makes children vulnerable to trafficking; Making Climate Finance Work for Women and Girls; Breaking Paradigms: Local Women Peace Initiatives to Promote the Full Participation of Women in Decisions Related to Peace and Security; Negotiating Public Place Safety Through Women’s Collectives: Learning and Challenges Yvonne Freeman, APD Partnerships As

Session covered: Feminist Leadership: Steering a course for gender equality in and through education Rita Allen, SI Ballymena The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities within our societies. This has been experienced by members of our families and friends when the burden of juggling working from home and home schooling their children as

Sessions covered: Reviewing Social and Economic Support System for Vulnerable Women; Mobilizing for Change: Girls and Boys Act Now to End Gender Based Violence; Women and Girl’s Human Rights: United Nations Language and Terminology; Block. Report. Repeat. Ruth Healey, SIGBI Director of Finance As others have said CSW65 has been a wonderful opportunity to find

Sessions covered: Amplifying the Voices on Ending Female Genital Mutilation; Exploring the Making of Women Leaders UK; Impressions of CSW65 Week 1; Women Empowerment through Higher education Ann Dawson, SI Stafford I ask myself – Why is this dreadful, inhumane practice continuing in a so-called civilized world? Soroptimists have advocated on this issue for many

Sessions covered: Women and Youth, Peace and Security; Feminist voices at the Policy Table; How Gender is my Valley Jane Flint Bridgewater, SI Stourbridge and District Monday 22 March brings the opportunity to reflect upon all we have heard, and read in Draft agreed conclusions for ‘Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public

Session covered: Creating Women Friendly Cities; Transforming Pandemic challenges into actions for SDGs and gender equality Kim Ann Williamson, APD Peace My first trip to CSW should have been in 2020. Once my flight tickets, hotels and UN pass were all booked, the excitement increased only to be quashed when the pandemic hit and the

Sessions covered: Empowering Women in STEM is essential for achieving the UNSDGs; Reimagining the Leadership Table With Women’s Full And Effective Participation & Decision-Making; Utilising Fashion to Advocate for Women participation and Decision Making; Nasrin Film Discussion Carol Infanti, APD Prosperity Well, what a week it has been, full on doesn’t cover it. I haven’t

Session covered: Nothing is Agreed, Until Everything is Agreed: Civil Society Briefing; Combatting trafficking/slavery throughout life’s course using education, awareness and action Mary Muia, SI Nairobi (Africa) UN CSW65, the biggest gathering of gender equality advocates in the world. This year’s CSW has witnessed a record attendance of over 25,000 delegates. The annual session focus

Sessions covered: Adolescent Girls Dialogue on Feminist Movements, Leadership and Accountability in Generation Equality; A World We Women Want: Gender-Just & Violence Free Pepsie Adiukwu, SI Africa Youth Activists reiterated the importance of Best Practices to promote Gender Equality including capacity strengthening, resources, co-ownership and co-design of spaces as well as a meaningful participation by

Session covered: Making zero tolerance a reality, Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM). Liz Dominey, Chair UK Programme Action Committee (UKPAC), SIGBI Who would have thought last year that we would be saying “please all mute, “ and a room full of soroptimists would comply – and then get irritated a few minutes later when they