March 2018
NEW YORK: The United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women held its annual conference here in UN HQ in New York City, USA.
The conference brought thousands of empowered women’s worldwide in promoting women’s rights, discussions of shaping global standards on gender equality and documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world.
The priority theme of the CSW62 is the challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched in September 2015, are the top priority at the UN and are to be achieved by the year 2030.
Goal 5 is “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. The focus of the Goal 5 Targets—e.g., violence against women and girls, trafficking, early marriage, health, discrimination—were reoccurring themes in the events.
It was Monday March 12, 2018 and there was a full house in Conference Room 4 of the UN General Assembly or GA Building, to view the Opening Cermony of CSW62 on livestream.
Due to space constraints, each NGO represented at CSW is allowed to have one delegate attend the ceremony seated inside the General Assembly.
Chair Ambassador of Ireland Nason is addressing the Commission, taking care of procedural matters: the adoption of the agenda and organization of work and the length of statements by member states delegates.
For the first time, the CSW Chair is a Woman !
Her opening remarks: she is honored to be the first Irish Ambassador wishing us a hundred thousand welcomes to us all.
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