From March 14-24, 2016, the UN hosted the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. This year’s session was organized by the Bureau, chaired by Brazil, and consisting of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Germany and Japan.
The theme for the 2016 edition was “Women’s Empowerment and its Link to Sustainable Development.” The review theme was “The Elimination and Prevention of All Forms of Violence against Women and Girls” (based on the decisions contained in the Agreed Conclusions of CSW57).
For this year’s CSW, Member States organized a total of 248 side events (155 during the first week of the event), with about 600 other parallel events organized by NGOs.
Italy’s Participation
The Italian delegation was led by the Hon. Emma Bonino, Special Envoy for CSW60, from March 14-16, and then by Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sen. Benedetto Della Vedova, from March 17-18.
Italy organized and co-sponsored the following events:
- Monday, March 14 (11:30am – 1:00pm, ECOSOC): “From Paris to Marrakech: Translating Political Commitments into Effective Gender-Responsive Climate Solutions” together with France, Fiji, Morocco, Peru, Switzerland, OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality, WEDO
- Tuesday, March 15 (1:30 – 2:45pm, Italian Mission Conference Room): “Equality Means Business – Ensuring Women’s Full Participation in Decision-Making Processes at All Levels” with Belgium, Bulgaria, Japan
- Tuesday, March 15 (4:00 – 6:00pm, UNICEF headquarters): “Launch of the UNICEF-UNFPA Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage” with UNICEF-UNFPA
- Wednesday, March 16 (8:30 – 9:45am ECOSOC): “Eliminating FGM: A Key Step in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals” with UNFPA-UNICEF, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Iran
- Wednesday, March 16 (11:00am – 12:45pm Ex-Press Bar): “Realizing Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Areas through Cooperatives and Micro-Enterprises – Experiences from LDCs, SIDS and middle income Countries”, with Fiji, Botswana, Morocco, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, UNWOMEN
- Thursday, March 17 (10:00am – 12:00pm Italian Mission Conference Room): “The Impact of Drug Policies on Women” with Open Society Foundations
- Thursday, March 17 (1:15 – 2:45pm, IPI): “Complementarities between the Women Peace and Security and the Youth Peace and Security Agendas: Strengthening the Participation of Girls and Young Women” with Jordan, PBSO, UNWOMEN, UNOY, UNFPA [Watch full video of the event here]
- Friday, March 18 (11:30am – 12:45pm CRA): “Women’s Role and Involvement in Measuring the Progress of SDG6: How to Monitor and Report on Water and Gender Issues?” with UNESCO, South Africa, Australia, Hungary
- Thursday, March 24 (1:15 – 2:30pm, CR7):”Policies Empowering Migrants Women and Girls in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, with UNWOMEN, Bangladesh
You can read all the statements here.
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