CSW68 KNOWLEDGE SESSION 9 - Debriefing UN General Assembly & looking ahead to the CSW with Chantal Korteweg
Date: 17-10-2023Time: 13:00 - 14:00 hrsLocation: online (link below)Tuesday, 17 October
Online: here
Language: English
Registration: not required
Programme:
- Welcome and brief update on the state of play and plans by Nadia van der Linde, WO=MEN.
- Conversation with Chantal Korteweg on her attendance at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and a preview of the CSW.
- Q&A
Chantal Korteweg is Dutch UN Women Representative 2023 and Director Inclusive Banking at ABN AMRO. Earlier this year, in knowledge session 1, we heard from her about banks and gender financial (in)equality. Click
here to watch the presentation again.
As UN Women Representative, Chantal Korteweg spoke on financial inclusion at the UN General Assembly on 4 October 2023. Watch her speech
here (from 13:53min).
The UN Women Representative is elected every year by the Dutch Women's Council (
Nederlandse Vrouwenraad, NVR). If you want to know more about this, you can read about it on the Dutch Women's Council
website. Also take a look at this
blog by Enaam Ahmed Ali, in which she explains exactly how the UN General Assembly works.
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