Posts tagged CSW
CSW66 Parallel Event: Feminist alternatives for a transformative Covid-19 economic recovery

March 2022

CSW66 NGO Forum Parallel Event: This CSW66 NGO Forum Parallel Event examined some of the Covid-19 policy responses and their impacts on women’s rights and gender equality in four national contexts. It offered a space to explore the many shared experiences, as well as important lessons for potentially transformative future proposals.

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Gender Advocacy in 2021

February 2021

Members’ Meeting: 2021 is a critical year for global gender advocacy, particularly with the UK hosting both the G7 and COP26, the fulfilment of the Generation Equality Forum and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. GADN’s February members’ meeting introduced GADN members to some of these key global processes and developments with the UK government and provided a space for further discussion.

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CSW64: An Update

March 2020

Update: The current global public health concerns has resulted in a scaled-down version of CSW64. This paper aims to provide an update of what has happened as part of this reduced version of CSW and lays out some possible next steps

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Stepping up: How governments can contribute to women’s economic empowerment

February 2017

Government economic policy shapes women’s lives, and could be a force for equality, yet too often this potential is not realised.  Government’s must play a central role in achieving women’s economic empowerment, they should prioritise tackling the underlying barriers to economic empowerment, particularly those faced by marginalised women.

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CSW61 Factsheet: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work

January 2017

Ahead of the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61), the Gender & Development Network has developed a factsheet which provides an overview of the structural economic barriers to women’s economic empowerment. For each of these areas, the factsheet makes recommendations to governments.

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