Date: 19-09-2023Time: 13.00 - 14.00 hrsLocation: online (link below) WO=MEN and Atria, in collaboration with Soroptimist International, are organising a series of knowledge sessions in preparation for the 68th United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). We started this in June, and are organising a second round with four follow-up knowledge sessions with new speakers and topics in September 2023.
The next CSW will not take place until March 2024. So why are we organising these preparatory sessions already? EU member states will start negotiating the EU position for the next CSW as early as October 2023. In recent years, this EU position proved increasingly important and leading for the commitment of the EU delegation during the CSW negotiations. It is therefore important for civil society in the Netherlands to start preparing our priorities and recommendations towards the Dutch (and EU) delegation in good time.
CSW68 KNOWLEDGE SESSION 7: Poverty and self-efficacy in relation to queer identity and to migrant and refugee women.
Tuesday 19 September
Interpreter: available (English/Dutch)
Registration: not required
Programme:
- Presentation by Quirine Lengkeek on queer identity and sex work in relation to poverty and empowerment.
Quirine Lengkeek is Global Advocacy and Communication Officer at Hivos for the "Free to be Me" partnership for LGBTQI+ rights. She was also NGO representative to the 66th CSW in 2022 and chairs the expert platform Sex Work Expertise.
- Presentation by Shirin Musa on Presentation by Shirin Musa on an inclusive and intersectional approach to the financial empowerment of migrant and refugee women in the West.
Shirin Musa is founder and director of Femmes for Freedom, an organization that advocates for the rights of bicultural women and girls in and outside the Netherlands. Among other things, Femmes for Freedom draws political attention to marital imprisonment as a form of violence against women. In this session, Shirin will talk more about their action plan for financial self-defense (see also
here).
- Q&A and discussion on possible CSW priorities and recommendations
This series of knowledge sessions is a follow-up to the sessions that took place before the summer. Anyone may attend, with or without participation in previous sessions and with or without CSW experience. The sessions are informal and interactive in nature.
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