Date: 17-04-2025Time: 15.00 - 17.00 hrs (doors open: 14.30 hrs)Location: The Hague (location will be shared with confirmed participants)
On Thursday, April 17, we will look back at the past UN Women's Summit (or CSW: Commission on the Status of Women) to discuss outcomes, trends and future expectations. We will do this together with Dutch CSW delegation members from the Ministries of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) and Foreign Affairs (BZ) and of course with our CSW NGO representative, Quirine Lengkeek of Mondiaal-FNV.
Background:
From March 10 - 21, 2025, the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and the "celebration” of 30 years of the Beijing agenda took place in New York. It was a complicated and turbulent process because of the geopolitical relations in the world right now and further restrictions on civil society access to the CSW in New York. Read more about it in already
here.
This meeting will largely take place in English.
Program:
14.30 Doors open
15.00 Welcome & interaction
15.10 Brief presentations of analysis & reflections on the CSW, followed by questions and responses from the audience
Panel:
- Britt Myren and Franca Hehenkamp, Atria
- Quirine Lengkeek, Mondiaal-FNV and CSW69 NGO representative
- Lisanne Post and Iris Bijman, Ministry of Education, Cultural and Science
- Nils Mollema and Robin de Vogel (tbc), Ministry of Foreign Affairs
16.00 Dialogue with the panel and audience on topics including:
- follow-up in the Netherlands and internationally
- the future of CSW
16.45 Closing, followed by drinks
Facilitation of the meeting will be in the hands of Nadia van der Linde, WO=MEN.
Registration has been closed, the meeting is full.
