Webinar des UN-Büros von CJ und IBVM am 29.02.2020

Das gemeinsame UN-Büro von CJ und IBVM veranstaltet am 29.02.2020 ein Webinar zur Lage von Frauen und Mädchen weltweit. Wer mitmachen möchte, braucht nur einen Internetzugang und einen Lautsprecher.

Ein Webinar ist eine Online-Konferenz, bei der die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer weltweit verstreut sein können und sich in einem "Internet-Konferenzraum" treffen, ohne Reisekosten zu verursachen.

Beim Webinar am 29. Feburar geht es um die Situation von Frauen und Mädchen 25 Jahre nach der 4. Weltfrauenkonferenz in Beijing. Sr. Cecilia Dwyer IBVM und Sr. Cynthia Matthews CJ laden Schwestern, Gefährtinnen, Freunde Mary Ward, Lehrerinnen und Lehrer an Mary Ward-Schulen und alle weiteren Interessierten ein, sich über Mädchen- und Frauen-Rechte, konkrete Projekte und die Arbeit des UN-Büros für mehr Gerechtigkeit zu informieren und sich auszutauschen.

Das Webinar findet am 29.02.2020 um 17 Uhr deutscher Zeit statt.

The "Beijing Conference on Women" was the Fourth World Conference on Women. These conferences were held in Mexico (1975), Copenhagen (1980), Nairobi (1985) and Beijing (1995). The Beijing conference was a resounding success in that it gathered together some 17.000 delegates and 30.000 civil society activists and delivered a Declaration and Platform of Action. The Beijing Conference was pivotal in that it produced a leap in the level of awareness of women's issues that needed to be addressed.

The twelve critical areas of concern identified in the Beijing Platform for Action have provided a framework that allowed countries and civil society to take note of the implementation, the progress and the impediments. The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has been responsible for the follow up at its annual sessions and, every five years, a special review was held. We are now celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

At the next session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) participants will bring together the work which began in 2019 with the preparation of comprehensive national reviews led by the Member States. Following regional reviews, held in the five UN regions, the review process will culminate in a global review at the 64th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) in March 2020.

The IBVM/CJ Network has been preparing for this moment where the current political, economic and social trends continue to advance and impede the advancement of women’s human rights in a global context marked by deepening inequalities within and between countries. We decided to have a Webinar before the Commission. (We will also have a Webinar for Latin-American and the Caribbean Region in Spanish after the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) but we will have input from Peru in English on 29 February).