It was an enriching, busy, and hectic time for AAUW staff and volunteers at the 55th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, but our U.N. representative Carolyn Donovan kept us all on track. We started off with a remarkable panel hosted by the Girl Scouts entitled Girls Voices: A Global View of Science, Technology, [...]
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NGO Global Women’s Forum Beijing +15, CSW 54, and Parallel Events
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, African Union, Beijing + 15, CEDAW, Commission on the Status of Women, CWS, global women's empowerment, Human Rights, Millennium Development Goals, NGO Global Women's Forum, Pan-Africa Parliament, Sisterhood Global Institute in Jordan, UN, UN Department of Public Information, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 54, women and education, women's empowerment, women's rights on March 16, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
From February 27 through March 12, I attended the NGO Global Women’s Forum, Beijing + 15; the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 54; and parallel events associated with the conference. The mission of the conference was to review implementation of the 1995 Beijing platform on women and girls. More than a dozen [...]

