IAW at the UN Geneva Luncheon: Advocating for Women’s Rights
Every year, as the UN Geneva Team of IAW, we are invited to the festive luncheon in December with the NGO CSW Geneva team. This year it was organized on the 10th of December. After a very nice lunch by discussing with all members, we proceeded to the workshop.
The topic of the workshop was the “Advocacy” of women rights. Many sub-topics were available such as: Education, peace, empowerment, gender inequality. Many different groups worked together and we chose “gender inequality”. We brainstormed together with 2 other ladies from the group and divided gender inequality into many branches.
The branches were as following:
- Stereotypes: ending discriminations
- Economic empowerment: Access to resources (land, property,etc)
- Value unpaid care work and promote shared responsibility
- Ending violence : Forced marriage, harmful traditional practices
- Decision making: political, economic participation and leadership
- Guaranteeing sexual/reproductive rights.
I was asked to present the flip chart to the audience.
We had a good discussion about the subject and we decided that the main issue with the gender inequality was ” to value unpaid care work”
Derya Akinci Briand
Representative of IAW to UN Geneva
One Response
Wow. Magnifique retour d’une manière précise, claire et instructive pour agir. J’adore. Merci merci merci.