Act for equal! Join us for our public conversation series following the Generation Equality Forum, every Monday at 6 p.m. (CST) from May 24th to June 28th. Register here to receive the Zoom links. In 2021, although significant progress has been made in terms of gender equality, there is still much work to be done. …
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By Mary Scott The meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women (March 14 – March 26) this year were mainly done remotely, so it was definitely a different way of connecting. There were 25,000 folks registered from all over the world on the NGO platform. There were over 700 Parallel Events, including one …
On March 2, 2021, the Institute for International Women’s Rights – Manitoba (IIWR-MB) hosted its Annual General Meeting. We welcomed a new board of directors, voted on a series of new policies and listened to an inspiring talk from Canada’s first Ambassador on Women, Peace and Security, Jacqueline O’Neill. The following reports were also tabled: …
By Mary Scott For a number of years, a small but energetic and committed group of women and allies have worked to put on a community event in Winnipeg called “Local to Global” focusing on different themes, but always created through a gender lens. Initially as part of the Canadian Committee for UNIFEM, later as …
Come one, come all! IIWR-MB members and anyone interested in the work of IIWR-MB are welcome to attend the organization’s 8th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 2. This year’s AGM will be held on Zoom, due to COVID-19 gathering restrictions. The meeting will be approximately two hours long, with roughly the first 45 minutes …
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Applications for IIWR-MB’s delegation to attend the 65th Session of the meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women are now open. CSW 65 is taking place on a virtual platform from March 15-March 26, 2021 Please Note: Participating in UNCSW is an incredible opportunity for IIWR-MB to contribute to the global dialogue regarding the …
“Gender is not an easy conversation to have…Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.” Ms. Chimmamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria What an experience – for about 6 hours on July 21st, 2020, I was glued to a computer, or phone, to listen in on the Multi-stakeholder Hearing, one of 3 members of IIWR-MB. …
In preparation for the high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly, which will be held in New York, on 23 September 2020, stakeholders came together on July 21st of 2020 to share experiences and strategies on how to accelerate the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. The social and economic inequalities faced by …
IIWR-MB will have 3 members join a virtual multi-stakeholder hearing, centered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on July 21 between 9:00 and 4:00 CST. Teruni Walaliyadde (co chair IIWR-MB); Jessica da Silva (VP Diversity) and Mary Scott (Member) will be participating on the call. ECOSOC accredited organizations have been permitted to have …
In 1994, a group of over 30 women began to strategize about attending the 4th World Conference on Women to be held the following September, in Beijing, China. Under the leadership of Muriel Smith and others, we met regularly, for about a year, discussing the different topics that would form the Beijing Platform for Action. We talked …
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In lieu of blogs regarding the 64th session of the the Commission on the Status of Women, IIWR will be highlighting chapter reflections on the Unfinished Business: A Parallel Report on Canada’s Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This is the first in a series of blogs on the topic. Julie Pelletier, …
The world commemorated, on the 75thanniversary of Auschwitz – Birkenau, the death of Jewish people by Nazis as a planned genocide during World War II. The horrors of the story is explicitly based on the systematic persecution of Jews. Significantly, their religious identity was utilized as a tool of war, when Jews were transported to the …
