Welcome to the Center for Women's Global Leadership

UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
58th Session • March 10 - 21, 2014
Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls

Statements

• pdf Creating an Enabling Economic Environment for Women’s Rights: An Analysis of Macro-Economic Issues in the CSW58 Agreed Conclusions
• The Center is pleased to share the  pdf Joint Statement to Promote a Global Development Strategy based on Human Rights submitted to the United Nations 58th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) . For many years we have worked to develop and facilitate women’s leadership for women’s human rights and social justice worldwide, calling attention to the critical importance of working toward the full realization of women’s rights - economic, social and cultural, and political and civil. Collectively and individually, we have worked to call on governments and all other development actors to utilize international human rights to provide a clear and universally recognized framework in the design, implementation, and monitoring of economic policies and programs.

CWGL Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events 
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• March 10, 2014 (4:30-6pm): pdf Development, Economic Rights, and Gender-Based Violence: Priorities for Post-2015 , UN Church Center, 1st floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY. View Photos. 
  

• March 11, 2014 (10:30am-12pm): pdf Making Unpaid Care Work Count in the Post-2015 Framework: Reflections from the UN Special Rapporteurs Report on Unpaid Care Work, Poverty and Women's Rights , with ActionAid, Institute of Development Studies and UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, UN Church Center, Boss Room, 8th floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY. View Photos.
   

• March 11, 2014 (4:30-6pm):  pdf Moving Beyond the MDGs for the Realization of Gender Equality, Women's Rights and Women's Empowerment on behalf of Post-2015 Women's Coalition, UN Church Center, 1st floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY.
• March 12, 2014 (10:30am-12pm):  pdf Bosnia to Syria - Women & Conflict: Sharing Lessons and Strategy , with MADRE, The International Women's League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), IWHR Clinic and Kvinna till Kvinna, UN Church Center, 1st floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY.
• March 12, 2014 (10:30am-12pm): An Integrated Approach to Peace and Security: Ensuring Women's Rights in Post-Conflict Syria, with MADRE and WILPF, UN Church Center, 1st floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY.
• March 12, 2014 (8:30-11:30pm): pdf International Women's Day Dance Party , Studio XXI, 59 West 21st St., between 5th and 6th Ave., New York, NY.
• March 13, 2014 (4:30-6pm): pdf Freedom from Want and Fear: Meeting the Challenges for Black Women and Women of Color for Gender Equality, Racial Justice and State Accountability in the Post-2015 Agenda , UN Church Center, 10th floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY.
• March 13, 2014 (6-8pm): pdf From Bosnia to Syria: Women Organizing for Peace, Rights and Accountability , with CUNY School of Law, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), MADRE and Kvinna till Kvinna, CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Sq., Long Island City, NY.
• March 14, 2014 (12:30pm):  pdf Lesbian, Bi and Trans Activism: Creative Strategies, Economic and Social Rights and Post 2015 , UN Church Center, Hardin Room, 11th floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY.
• March 14, 2014 (4:30-6pm):  pdf Building Strategic Alliances for Women Workers' Rights Post-2015 , with International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Education International (EI), Public Services International (PSI), and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Salvation Army Auditorium, 221 West 52nd St., between 2nd and 3rd Ave., New York, NY. Read Summary Article.

CWGL Staff Speaking Engagements

• March 9, 2014 (1:15-2:30pm): Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, spoke at Legacy of the 1990's UN Conferences, as part of document Consultation Day , The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th St., between 3rd & 4th Ave., New York, NY.
• March 10, 2014 (1:15-2:30pm): Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, moderated and presented at pdf Protect Women Human Rights Defenders: From Resolution to Solutions , Just Associates (JASS), International Civil Society Action Work (ICAN), AWID, Nobel Women's Initiative, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition, Amnesty International, UN Women, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UN North Lawn Building, Room 7, 1st Ave., New York, NY.
  
• March 10, 2014 (4:30-6pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, spoke at pdf Development, Economic Rights, and Gender-Based Violence: Priorities for Post-2015 , UN Church Center, 1st floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY. View Photos.
  

• March 11, 2014 (10:30am-12pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, spoke at  pdf Making Unpaid Care Work Count in the Post-2015 Framework: Reflections from the UN Special Rapporteurs Report on Unpaid Care Work, Poverty and Women's Rights , with ActionAid, Institute of Development Studies and UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, UN Church Center, Boss Room, 8th floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY. View Photos.
  
  

• March 12, 2014 (10am-1pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, spoke on Challenges and Achievements in the Implementation of the MDGs for Women and Girls, panel organized by UN Women, UN Headquarters, Conference Room 2, New York, NY.

• March 13, 2014 (1-3pm): Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, spoke at pdf Beyond 2015: Due Diligence Framework to End Violence against Women , German House, 871 1st Ave., New York, NY.
• March 13, 2014 (2:30pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, keynote speaker at The Financial Crisis, the Global Recession and Women, International Alliance of Women, UN Church Center, 10th floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY. View Photos.
  

• March 13, 2014 (4:30-6pm): Zarin Hamid, Program Coordinator, spoke at pdf Freedom from Want and Fear: Meeting the Challenges for Black Women and Women of Color for Gender Equality, Racial Justice and State Accountability in the Post-2015 Agenda , UN Church Center, 10th floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY.

• March 13, 2014 (6-8pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, spoke at  pdf From Bosnia to Syria: Women Organizing for Peace, Rights and Accountability , with CUNY School of Law, WILPF, MADRE and Kvinna till Kvinna, CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Sq., Long Island City, NY.

• March 14, 2014 (4:30-6pm): Savi Bisnath, Associate Director, spoke at pdf Building Strategic Alliances for Women Workers' Rights Post-2015 , with International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Education International (EI), Public Services International (PSI), and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Salvation Army Auditorium, 221 West 52nd St., between 2nd and 3rd Ave., New York, NY.
• March 17, 2014 (2:30-4pm): Savi Bisnath, Associate Director, spoke at  pdf Double Mainstreaming Gender Equality & Climate Change in Post-MDG Sustainable Development Approaches , Boell Foundation, UN Church Center, 10th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY. Official Report.

• March 19, 2014 (3-7:30pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, spoke at pdf Human Rights & 21st Century Challenges: 20+ Years After the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna , Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and The New School of NYC, Alvin Johnson/ J.M. Kaplan Hall, The New School, 66 West 12th St., New York, NY.

Resources

• Official Documents
• Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Structural and Policy Constraints in Achieving the MDGs for Women and Girls 
• United Nations: Official United Nations website for the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
• NGO CSW Committee: Official website of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women