Monday March 17th
"Data-Revolution" is the CSW58 buzzword and it means doing a better job of capturing gender statistics for the Post-2015 Agenda. Mexico presented a program on making women more visible through indicators and tracking statistics that are gender specific. Governments need to capture disaggregated information on unpaid work, care-giving, access to healthcare and resources, wealth, income, violence, education,

Consultation Day March 9th
Consultation Day is sponsored by NGO CSW (civil society’s Committee of the Status of Women) and traditionally takes place on the Sunday before the Commission on the Status of Women.

This year’s NGO CSW Women of Distinction Award winner was Sharon Bhagwan Rolls for her empowerment of women through radio in Fiji, where women have little...

By Karen Lewis, Ending Violence Committee and AODVC Liaison

The Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center (AODVC) provides support to American victims of domestic violence in foreign countries, helping them to be able to live their lives free of abuse either in the foreign country or back in the United States. One of the largest barriers that these survivors often...

Of the eight MDGs, two are directly related to education:

MDG 2 calls for the achievement of universal primary education by 2015 whereby every child will complete a full course of primary education.

MDG 3 calls for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women with the elimination of gender disparities at primary and secondary school levels by 2005 and across all education...

Human Rights in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Framework

DPI NGO Briefing, NY 12.2013