Events for Women & ESCR

Mar

2017

Empowering Syrian Women Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey

Currently,there are an estimated 4.5 million registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey,the three main countries where Syrian refugees have taken refuge. Women refugees bear the brunt of displacement, and this panel will discuss how NGOs in the region...

Mar

2017

Addressing inequalities in care work to achieve women's economic empowerment

Addressing women's heavy and disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work, and recognizing the value of care work to the economy is crucial to the realization of women?s economic empowerment. The UN High Level Panel on Women's...

Nov

2016

ESCR-Net Global Strategy Meeting

On the week of 14 November 2016, ESCR-Net plans to hold a global strategy meeting of members across 70 countries in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ESCR-Net—over 220 NGOs and social movements and 50 individual advocates—works “to build a global movement to make human...

Mar

2016

Advancing women's substantive equality in the implementation of the SDGs

ESCR-Net's Women and ESCR Working Group, in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, is pleased to bring together women’s rights...

Feb

2016

"Critical Gender Studies Symposium: contemporary debates"

The Leadership Institute Simone de Beauvoir and 17, Institute of Critical Studies present during February 5-6 the "Critical Gender Studies Symposium: contemporary debates". This event aims to become a space for critical thinking on gender, sexuality and multidimensionality and complexity of...

Aug

2015

2nd Regional Feminist Forum to be held in Sri Lanka

The Forum will bring together South Asian feminists including PWESCR’s Leadership Institute Leaders from South Asia to discuss and debate with creativity, passion and rigour the strategies for a regional women’s network to advance women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR). The Forum...

Aug

2015

Advancing Women's ESCR: alternative visions of development, land and property rights

Struggles for women’s rights related to housing, land and property (HLP) reinforce the interdependence of economic, political, social, civil and cultural rights while highlighting the disproportionate impacts suffered by women and the gender-specific ways in which...

Aug

2015

Realizing Women’s ESC Rights in Post-War Sri Lanka

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies in collaboration with the Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR) is pleased to invite you to a...

Jun

2015

Symposium on Violence, Health, and Sexual and Reproductive Rights

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The numerous forms of violence that are exercised against women pose an obstacle to their individual development, violate their rights and limit their freedoms. Violence against women blocks the

Jun

2015

Africa Regional Workshop on Women and ESCR

This workshop is part of a series of regional learning dialogues and strategy meetings that the ESCR-Net Women and ESCR Working Group is facilitating (with the first in Mexico, in November 2014). The workshop will bring together more than 30 participants...

Mar

2014

Event from the Women and ESCR working group during CSW 58

Women's ESCR: A Vital Framework for Fulfilling the MDGs