UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
56th session • February 27-March 9, 2012

CWGL Events

• MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012 (12:30-2pm), CCUN Hardin Room, 11th Floor: Open Forum on the 16 Days Campaign
• TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012 (10:30am-12pm), CCUN Hardin Room, 11th Floor: Facilitating Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective Panel
• WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 (12:30-2pm), CCUN, 2nd Floor: Intersections of Violence Against Women and Militarism Panel, sponsored by CWGL & MADRE
• WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012, V E R M I L L I O N, 480 Lexington Ave: International Women's Day Reception & Dance Party

Co-sponsored Events

• WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 (10:30-12pm), Salvation Army: Right to Participate at CSW, the case of Iran, sponsored by AIDOS, AWID, CWGL, WHRDIC
• WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 (12:30-2pm), CCUN, Boss Room: Building a Stronger United Nations for Women: One Year after UN Women’s Creation, sponsored by the GEAR Campaign
• WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 (5:30-7pm): Rural Women's Speak-out, sponsored by NGO CSW & Huariou
• THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 (12:30-2pm), CCUN Chapel, 1st Floor: Thousands of Miles Apart, Rural Women Stand United Panel, sponsored by MADRE, CWGL, United Methodist Women, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies & International Women's Human Rights Clinic, CUNY
• FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 (10-11:15am), North Lawn Building, Conference Room B: Rural Women, Poverty, Crises, Rights, sponsored by WUNRN, CWGL, DAWN & Huairou Commission
• FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 (2:30-4pm), Salvation Army: Rural Women and the Right to Water, sponsored by GWA, ISIS International, PWESCR, MADRE, WEDO, World YWCA, WUNRN
• MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012 (10:30-12pm), CCUN, 2nd Floor: Development Paradigm and Women's Agency and Rights, sponsored by International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
• MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012 (4:30-6pm), CCUN, Drew Room: Economic Justice for Women of Color: a Human Rights Perspective, sponsored by CWGL, Opportunity Agenda, NCRW, and Urban Justice Center

Resources

• United Nations
  • Official United Nations website for the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
• NGO CSW Committee
  • NGO CSW Committee has planned the following dates for CSW activities:
    • NGO Consultation Day: Sunday, February 26, 2012
    • NGO Parallel Events: February 27-March 9, 2012
    • NGO Reception: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
• International Women's Day (March 8, 2012)
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Archive

• Beijing+15, March 2010
• 2005 World Summit, September 2005
• Women 2000: Beijing+5 Special Session