Indigenous Women and the CSW62

The 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the UNHQ in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018.
Priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls;
Review theme: Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (agreed conclusions of the forty-seventh session);

Briefing for Indigenous Peoples: Monday March 12, 1pm – 2:30 pm, Secretariat building, Room S-1521

Side Events: SPFII are co-sponsoring 2 panel discussions –

Co-sponsors: International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI), International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs(IWGIA), Asia Indigenous Women’s Network, Tebtebba

Co-sponsors: IWGIAFIMIAsia Indigenous Peoples Pact, Inter-American Commission on Human RightsIFAD, UN Women

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