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Seminar Programme (Saturday 7. September) 

IAW ARTICLES

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CEDAW

IAW submitted an intervention to the WGDAWG

Positive evaluation and likely listing as best practice (localisation of CEDAW) The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (WGDAWG) came to UN ...
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CSW

Interested in becoming an IAW delegate at CSW69?

Task Force CSW69 invites potential delegates to two virtual meetings Photo by Julia M Cameron: From March 10 to 21, 2025, the 69th Session of ...
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News

UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize 2024

UNESCO invites nominations for the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize 2024 Unesco, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons UNESCO invites individuals, civil society actors, and ...
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News

IAW Statement on the Gaza Conflict

From 2000 to now IAW statement 2000 at the Board Meeting in Tel Aviv, when asked by the host organization, WIZO, to make a political ...
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Displaced Woman in DR Congo
Donation

The situation in DR Congo is getting worse – please donate!

Urgent Call for Support If you type “Lake Kivu” into the internet search engine, you will see picturesque images. But the pictures belie the disastrous ...
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The History of NGO CSW NY
CSW

The History of NGO CSW NY

Illustrated Review of the Work of the NGO CSW NY since its founding in 1972 Commons Photo Source: NGO CSW NY Website International Alliance of ...
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OPINIONS

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Leap Year Tradition

Is there a tradition 100 years later? Anjana Basu gives us feminist insights on this quadrennial event. February 29 falls once every four years, offering

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Event Information:

  • Tue
    10
    Mar
    2015

    Lessons Learnt from Women Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide

    4:30 pmCC UN, New York – Boss Room

     Lessons Learnt from Women Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide 

    Senior Researcher Torild Skard, , IAW, Norway, presents her new book

     “Women of power – half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide” (Bristol: Policy Press).

     Skard analyses the careers of 73 women in 53 countries to find out how women managed to go to the top, and if their role as top leaders made a difference to women?  

    Discussion:

    The findings of the book and policies to increase the number of women in the top leadership worldwide will be discussed by

    Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of the UN Development Programme, UNDP, (tbc)

    Mona Lena Krook, Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, US,

    Portia Simpson-Miller,  Prime Minister of Jamaica (tbc)

     

    Moderator:  Joanna Manganara, President, International Alliance of Women (IAW)

     

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