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Recommended readings and resources for CSW68
Recommended readings and resources for CSW68 11 March 2024 APCNews

We encourage you to join us in mobilising for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) taking place from 11-22 March, for which we present some essential resources to help investigate and discuss some of the issues at stake this year.

APC at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
APC at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 28 February 2024 APCNews

The APC network is mobilising for the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) that will take place from 11-22 March in New York. Browse the schedule of events in which we will be participating in one way or another. Come join us! 

Gender equality should be at the centre of the Global Digital Compact (GDC)
Gender equality should be at the centre of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) 09 October 2023 Gaurav Jain

APC believes that the GDC must have an intersectional feminist perspective to help create a gender-just world. APC and several members and partners have jointly developed 10 feminist principles for including gender in the GDC, and co-organised a pre-IGF event on the theme.

New GenderIT.org edition is out! Back and forth in the advancement of women's rights at CSW58
New GenderIT.org edition is out! Back and forth in the advancement of women's rights at CSW58 17 April 2014 Flavia Fascendini

This GenderIT.org edition addresses the negotiations and bargaining in agreements during the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) around information and communication technologies and women’s rights, as well as the prospects for 2015, a key year for the women’s movement agenda. Despite the advances made, once again advocates had to focus their efforts on defending p...

CSW58: Conclusions point to digital gender gap as impediment to exercise of human rights
CSW58: Conclusions point to digital gender gap as impediment to exercise of human rights 25 March 2014 Flavia Fascendini

The APC Women’s Rights Programme was present at the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which took place in New York on 10-21 March 2014. This year’s priority theme was “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls”. Women’s and girls’ access to and participation in education, training, scien...

July 25th is #orangeday: Take action for safer online spaces for women and girls
July 25th is #orangeday: Take action for safer online spaces for women and girls 23 July 2013 Flavia Fascendini

APC’s Take Back the Tech! campaign joins the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, which in July is dedicated to promoting “Cyber Space as Safe Space for Women and Girls.” Join the action!

Agreed conclusions in CSW 57th include violence against women and ICT
Agreed conclusions in CSW 57th include violence against women and ICT 26 March 2013 Flavia Fascendini

The 57th Commission on the Status of Women took place from 4 to 15 March 2013 at United Nations Headquarters under the theme “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.” Setting a milestone for internet and women’s rights, this year’s conclusions include a paragraph on violence against women related to information and communication technologies.

Statement to the 57th Session of the CSW: Violence against women and information and communications technology
Statement to the 57th Session of the CSW: Violence against women and information and communications technology 04 March 2013 APC

Violence against women (VAW) that is mediated by technology is increasingly becoming part of women’s experience of violence and their online interactions. In the same way we face risks offline, in the streets and in our homes, women and girls can face specific dangers and risks on the internet such as online harassment, cyberstalking, privacy invasions with the threat of blackmail, viral ‘r...

APC at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York
APC at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York 27 February 2013 Flavia Fascendini

The fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 March 2013 under the theme “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.” The APC Women’s Rights Programme has a full agenda at the event as part of its advocacy efforts supporting women’s and internet rights.

The APC women's programme at the Commission on the Status of Women
The APC women's programme at the Commission on the Status of Women 03 March 2010

APC is closely following the discussions about communications rights and the role ICTs play within this. Read GenderIT.org’s coverage.

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