Women's rights advocates were shocked when Turkey's President Erdogan announced unilaterally that Turkey would withdraw from the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. Since the Convention was drafted in Istanbul, Turkey, and Turkey was the first country to sign it, it became known as the Istanbul Convention. A leaflet produced by the...

NGO CSW65 Forum Events

NGO CSW NY Consultation Day   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eitqt75dw9w&t=16s

NGO CSW Geneva Consultation Day (Laurie Richardson's presentation about NGO CSW Vienna starts at 40:44)

Femicide Hotspot Germany: Let's Break the Structural Pattern!

(FAWCO co-sponsored with Femicide Observation Center Germany and FEMEN Germany)

https://ngocsw65forum.us2.pathable.com/meetings/virtual/g64npsa9GQ34mxLeS

North America and Europe CSW Caucus Meeting   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPs3xB6TWZQ

Beijing – COVID – What Next? (Organizer:

By Maggie Palu (AW Aquitaine)

This has been a labor of love, and fairly time-consuming, because I’ve been watching some of the sessions again. Here are some links to recordings of meetings that I “attended" virtually. 

Enhancing police and justice responses to gender-based violence against women: new tools and emerging challenges in times of the pandemic

Organizer: United Nations Office...

The 65th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) came to a close on March 26 after pushback from regressive governments caused negotiations to stretch into the final day. The CSW65 Agreed Conclusions were adopted at the eleventh hour after a marathon of difficult negotiations. You can watch the Closing Session and hear Member States' statements...

In his address at the opening of CSW65 on March 15, 2021, Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how deeply embedded gender inequality is in the world’s political, social and economic systems. The UN chief noted that women work in jobs that have been hard hit by the pandemic, and that women’s and girls’ unpaid care...