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UN Women’s Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean invites individuals with outstanding professional and/or activist careers in gender equality and women's empowerment to apply to join its Civil Society Advisory Group.
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We are looking back and going forward this month, celebrating the power of the women’s movement, and calling for nothing less than bold, decisive actions to secure women’s rights as human rights, once and for all. These are some voices of activists who were at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, in 1995, and those who were shaped by it for a lifetime.
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The UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean is doing for a second call for applications for the partial renewal of its Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG). It encourages people committed to gender equality and women's empowerment to submit their nominations for this process, as well as to distribute this call among their networks. It is essential to mention that those who submitted their application in the first call do not need to reapply; their candidacy remains valid. ...
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The UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, launches a call for proposals to renew the regional membership of the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG), an advisory group established at a global, regional and national level to facilitate effective, continuous and structured consultations between civil society and UN Women, with the objective of advising and advocating for the establishment of policies and programs, as well as promoting sustainable alliances to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women.
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On the margins of the annual UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security in New York, at a side event on 30 October, survivors, leaders and experts came together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
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This interview features Demecia Yat, one of 15 women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Guatemala. From 2011 – 2016, they fought for justice at a national high court. The groundbreaking case resulted in the conviction of two former military officers of crimes against humanity and granted 18 reparation measures to the women survivors and their communities.
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The Generation Equality Forum is a global gathering for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-chaired by France and Mexico, with the leadership and partnership of civil society. The Forum will kick-off in Mexico City, Mexico, on 7-8 May 2020 and culminate in Paris, France, on 7-10 July 2020.
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Supported by photos, data, infographics, and individual stories of impact, UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) annual report presents main aggregated results achieved by its 25 active projects. It highlights the process and outcomes of its fourth grant-making cycle, 2018–2019, a scaling and innovation initiative. The report also features FGE’s South-South and triangular cooperation strategy, a few impact news from past projects, and two grantee partners’ op-eds.
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During the 36-year-long Guatemalan civil war, indigenous women were systematically raped and enslaved by the military in a small community near the Sepur Zarco outpost. What happened to them then was not unique, but what happened next, changed history. From 2011 – 2016, 15 women survivors fought for justice at the highest court of Guatemala. The groundbreaking case resulted in the conviction of two former military officers of crimes against humanity and granted 18 reparation measures to the women survivors and their community. The abuelas of Sepur Zarco, as the women are respectfully referred to, are now waiting to experience justice. Justice, for them, includes education for the children of their community, access to land, a health care clinic and such measures that will end the abject poverty their community has endured across generations. Justice must be lived.
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Sepur Zarco was the first case of conflict-related sexual violence challenged under Guatemala’s penal code. It was also the first time that a national court anywhere in the world had ruled on charges of sexual slavery during an armed conflict—a crime under international law. In its path-breaking judgment, the Guatemalan court noted that sexual violence against indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ women was part of a deliberate strategy by the Guatemalan Army.
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Magda Alberto is a young feminist and member of UN Women Civil Society Advisory Group in Colombia. She advocates for the recognition of women in the Colombian peace-process and was part of the Women and Peace Summit in 2013 and 2016, supported by the UN system and led by UN Women, which led to the formal recognition by the parties of women’s role in the Colombian peace process.
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UN Women is pleased to announce seven new members of its Civil Society Advisory Group for Latin America and the Caribbean, in compliance with the due process of partially renovating the Group as expected this year. Alma Espino – Uruguay Economist, researcher and professor of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of the Republic of Uruguay, and member of the National...
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The Regional Office of UN Women for the Americas and the Caribbean invites interested persons to apply to the call for the partial renewal of its Civil Society Advisory Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (CSAG-LAC). Membership of four members and four alternates of CSAG-LAC will be renewed. The Civil Society Advisory Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (CSAG-LAC) was formed in May 2012 and was the outcome of a rigorous and very well attended selection process where almost 120 men...
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UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality has expanded it's global grant-making portfolio to 80 Countries in six years,