An Intergenerational Panel: Directly Confronting Gender-specific Violence and Promoting Justice and Peace / NGO CSW69 Forum

Join us on March 14 at 10:30 AM EDT for a virtual intergenerational panel sponsored by Citizens for Global Solutions, Trinity Washington University, and the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. The panel will explore violence against women and girls and barriers to justice in DR Congo and Nigeria and contemplate how the Beijing Declaration can be better implemented to achieve transformative solutions.

The panel will bring together youth and seasoned women’s rights advocates from the US, DR Congo and Nigeria to take an intergenerational approach to directly confronting gender specific violence against women and promoting justice and peace.

Register for the event here

Speakers:

• Sr. Isabelle Izika, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur NGO representative at the UN
• Chantal Faida, Director at the Centre de Formation Elikya ya Mboka DR Congo
• Amaka Ilodigwe, Director of the Women and Child Justice Initiative Nigeria
• Lauren Woodhouse, Global Affairs student at Trinity Washington University and CGS Fellow
• Cinthya Calderon-Hernandez, student at Trinity Washington University and CGS Fellow
• Sr. Ann Howard, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Director of Campus Ministry at Trinity Washington University

Moderator: Dr. Allen Pietrobon, Professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University 

This is an official Parallel Event at the NGO CSW69 Forum, which is taking place in parallel with the 69th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) in New York from March 10th to 21st. The Commission on the Status of Women is a UN body that monitors the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, considered the most progressive blueprint for advancing women’s rights across the world.

This year, the main focus of CSW69 is reviewing the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, including an assessment of current challenges that affect the implementation of the Platform for Action and the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women.