CSW Side-Event: Feminists Confronting Unsustainable Development

WECF will moderate the side-event at the 57th CSW in New York

26.02.2013 |WECF

WECF will moderate the side-event “Violence – Ecologies – Livelihood – Feminists Confronting Unsustainable Development” at the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). It will take place 7th March, 2013.

side event will examine the various forms of violence resulting from unsustainable development and related environmental degradation. Speakers will share experiences of violations against women’s human rights in contexts of land grabbing, mining, nuclear contamination, and disasters, and propose measures to achieve sustainable development and eliminate violence against women.
The respondent(s) will be UN agency representative(s), confirmed closer to the event.

As part of the CSW session, the event will take place in New York, USA. For more details, please get the full invitation here.