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Draft Agreed Conclusions for CSW 61- comments by IAW
The agreed conclusions do not argue strongly enough that women’s economic empowerment also contributes to achieving other targets.
24 February, 2017
The agreed conclusions do not argue strongly enough that women’s economic empowerment also contributes to achieving other targets.
‘Nigerian women, who suffer most from poverty, climate change and violence, are valuable agents of change’.
Hate crimes against Muslims is highly gendered because Muslim Women are attacked more often
Ayesha Javeri, Executive Vice President of All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA), reports: Alongside the running of daily projects such as education at our schools, health
Women’s rights are human rights, regardless of a woman’s race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, sexual identity, gender expression, economic status, age or disability.
Women must build a radical movement that is based on a genuine re-distributive agenda. This agenda should also include policies that fight institutionalized racism, economic inequality, climate change and gender inequality and violations of women’s human rights.
IAW will participate in the Women’s March on Washington in support of the guiding principle that women’s rights are human rights, regardless of a woman’s race, ethnicity, religion,
immigration status, sexual identity, gender expression, economic status, age or
disability.
IAW joins in the call for Egypt to stop tightening the noose round the women’s rights movement
Femicide is globally recognized as one of the gravest violations of human rights and gender-based killings as the most serious form of gender-based violence. Report from a symposium held in Vienna on International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women