United Nations Advocacy

Updates

• February 17, 2012: Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, CWGL, featured in UN Women at its First Birthday: Systems and Visibility Growing, More Funding and Civil Society Engagement Needed
  
• March 24, 2011: Call for UN Women to Design its Policy and Program on Women’s Economic Empowerment from an Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Framework
  • Proposal (English, French, Spanish)
  • Ten Recommendations (English, French, Spanish)
  January 24, 2011: Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, CWGL, delivers statement at UN Women’s first Executive Board Meeting on behalf of the GEAR Campaign. Click here for statement.
• November 18, 2010: CSW 2011 Submission: Civil Society Organizations Call on UN Women to Prioritize Economic and Social Rights
• November 2010: UN Women & Civil Society Engagement
• October 19, 2010: CWGL endorsed a letter to the UN addressing civil society participation at the 2010 Summit of the Millennium Development Goals
• September 22, 2010: The MDGs: Addressing the enabling environment through the ethical framework of human rights, by Natalia Cardona, Program Director
• September 14, 2010: PRESS RELEASE
  The GEAR Campaign Enthusiastically Welcomes the New Under-Secretary-General, Michelle Bachelet, Former Chilean President

Thematic Areas

• Gender Equality Architecture
  • Statements on Gender Architecture
  • Resources & Timeline
  • Media
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
• Violence Against Women
• Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRDIC)
• Human Rights Council
• Sexual Rights
• HIV/AIDS
• Previous Statements

CWGL at the United Nations

• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), February-March 2012
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), February-March 2011
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Beijing+15, March 2010
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), March 2009
• Human Rights Council (HRC), 9th Session, September 2008
• Human Rights Council (HRC), 8th Session, June 2008
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), February-March 2008
• Human Rights Council (HRC), March-April 2007
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), February-March 2007
• XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2006 / Five Year Review of the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, May-June 2006
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), February-March 2006
• 2005 World Summit, September 2005
• Commission on Human Rights (CHR), March-April 2005
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), February-March 2005
• Commission on Human Rights (CHR), March-April 2004
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), March 2004
• Vienna +10 activities, 2003
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), March 2003
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), March 2002
• CWGL activities at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), August-September 2001
• CWGL statement at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), April 2001
• CWGL activities at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), March 2001
• Women 2000: Beijing +5 Special Session
• 1999 Monitoring & Advocacy at the United Nations
• 1998 Monitoring & Advocacy at the United Nations

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