Our Work: Commission on the Status of Women

CSW61, March 2017

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Dates: 13 - 24 March 2017
Location: New York City

Priority theme: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work

Review theme: Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls

Emerging issue/focus area: The empowerment of indigenous women

• Information about events organized by governments, UN Agencies and NGOs, and held in UN Headquarters in NYC is available at the UN Women CSW61 website at: 
  http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw61-2017/side-events/calendar-of-side-events
• Information about events organized by NGOs is available at the CSW NGO website at: 
  https://www.ngocsw.org/ngo-csw-forum-61-sponsored-events
• “A Guide for NGO's & Women's Human Rights Activists at the UN & CSW 2017” is available at:
  https://www.ngocsw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/NGO-Main-Guide-2017_0221-FINAL-1.pdf

 

WEI's Featured Side Event Flyers

• Germany & WUNRN CSW61 Side Event "ACCESSIBLE CITIES & THE NEEDS OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES AND OLDER WOMEN" Wednesday, March 15, 2017
• DESA & UN Women & WEI Networking Workshop "Advancing the Leadership of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Development and Society" Thursday, March 16, 2017
• WRC CSW61 Side Event "Strengthening Networks of Women with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action" Monday, March 20, 2017 
• WEI CSW61 Side Event "Intersectionality, SDGs and SRHR" Tuesday, March 21 2017
   
   

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For general information on CSW61 2017, see http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw61-2017