[CSW70] Addressing the Laws and Practices that Criminalize Women due to Poverty and Status Worldwide
Date: 18-03-2026Time: 10:00 - 11:15 hrs (New York time)Location: UN HQ New York & LivestreamThis CSW70 formal side event is co-sponsored by WBW, the
Permanent Missions of Thailand, Colombia, and Liechtenstein, the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Thailand Institute of
Justice (TIJ), United Nations Latin American Institute for the
Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), Penal
Reform International, and the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International
Justice.
Speakers from Member States, UN
entities, civil society, and women with lived experience will discuss
key recommendations for gender-transformative, rights-based justice
reform.
Key note speaker: Mary Robinson (former president of Ireland, Chair at The Elders; Co-Founder of Project Dandelion)
This session can be watched on livestream at: https://webtv.un.org/en
