Mar 14, 2017
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United Nations, New York, USA, 13 March 2017 – Mona Kuppers (The National Council of German Women’s Organizations and the Association of German Women Entrepreneurs) at the opening meeting of the sixty-first session of the Commission on Stats of Women (CSW) today at the UN Headquarters in New York. by Britta Schmitz UNITED NATIONS, March 14 2017 – The 61st Session of the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW61) is held from 13 to 24 March at the UN Headquarters in New York. The priority theme for CSW61 is “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of [Read More]
Mar 11, 2016
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United Nations, New York, USA, March 10 2016 – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), briefs journalists on the sixtieth session of the Commission on Status of Women (CSW60), scheduled to take place at UN headquarters from 14 to 24 March 2016. Also addressing the press with her was Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, CSW Chair and Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN. Photo by: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire by Britta Schmitz UNITED NATIONS, March 11 2016 – The empowerment of women and ending violence against women [Read More]
Mar 7, 2015
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Stephanie Zawalski/Europa Newswire March 6, 2015 UNITED NATIONS — In observance of International Women’s Day, March 8th, UN Women hosted, what they referred to as, a thematic debate. Heads of state, UN officials and other governmental and non-governmental representatives took the opportunity to speak on the successes and continued struggles of global gender equality in respect to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action which was adopted in 1995. One of the greatest global successes was reported by Ban Ki-Moon who cited the reduction of maternal mortality which has been cut approximately in half over the past 20 years (although, [Read More]
