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Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
2023
Reply from the ICC Prosecutor regarding the Situation in the State of Palestine
26 April 2023
32 UN experts issue a joint letter to the ICC Prosecutor regarding the Situation in the State of Palestine and Annex
23 March 2023
UN experts issue new guidelines on Sexuality Education
3 March 2023
2022
Empowerment of girls is an indispensable precondition for just and sustainable societies: UN experts
11 October 2022
Expert opinion to the Council of State of Türkiye on the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention
20 August 2022
2021
- Video: Intervention of the Vice Chair of the Working Group, Dorothy Estrada Tanck during an event on Mainstreaming Gender Equality in the Judiciary during the Asma Jahangir Conference 2021
21 November 2021 - Video: Intervention of the Vice Chair of the Working Group, Dorothy Estrada Tanck, on Women’s representation and gender balance in human rights bodies and mechanisms: Conversatorio “Paridad de Género en los órganos de derechos humanos: una tarea pendiente”
17 November 2021 - Video: Intervention of the Vice Chair of the Working Group, Dorothy Estrada Tanck in the event for the presentation of the report “El camino hacia la justicia reproductiva: una década de avances y pendientes' of the organization Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE), from Mexico.
9 November 2021 - Video: Intervention and Interactive Dialogue of the Chair of the Working Group on Discrimination against Women and girls during the 76th session of the General Assembly
05 October 2021 - Summary of the event on Girls’ Activism: Accomplishments, Challenges and opportunity for social change (English)
19 March - Video: Statement of Elizabeth Broderick, Chairperson of the UN Working Group discrimination against women and girls for the General Discussion for the 65th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
- CSW65 Virtual side-event “Girls’ activism: accomplishments, challenges and opportunities for social change”
19 March - Video: International Women's Day- WGDAW (English | Español)
8 March
2020
- Virtual panel discussion: 10 year anniversary of the UN WGDAW, 30 November
- Video: First oral reporting to the General Assembly, 75th session, 9 October
- Statement at the opening segment of the Beijing +25 high-level meeting of the General Assembly, 1 October
- EDVAW Platform review: 25 years of the Beijing Platform for Action, April
- International Women’s Day statement: no country in the world is free from discrimination against women, 6 March
2019
- Consultation of the Working Group on the situation of Roma women, 12 June
- Joint statement by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and the Platform of women’s rights mechanisms on violence and harassment in the world of work, 31 May
- Side event organised in the margins of the 62nd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs: “Women, incarceration and drug policy: Specific vulnerabilities that call for focused responses”, Vienna, 31 May
- 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 13 March
- General discussion
- High-level interactive dialogue on “Accelerating implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: exchange of best practices in preparation for the Beijing+25 review and appraisal
- Concept Note: Current challenges and opportunities for women human rights defenders: How can the international community better support their work?
- Summary Report: Current challenges and opportunities for women human rights defenders
2018
- Submission regarding the proposed ILO Convention and Recommendations regarding violence and harassment in the workplace, 8 November 2018
- Participation in an International Forum on “Developing an Advocacy Agenda for Abortion in the 21st Century and Making Change Happen”, 5-7 September 2018, Lisbon, Portugal (Opening speech and Concluding speech)
- Testimony before the New York City Council Committee on Women concerning Res. 84-2018 "Resolution urging the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign the Reproductive Health Act", 20 September 2018
- Statement in the general discussion of the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, March 2018
- Response from IMF to Open Letter on social protection
31 January 2018
2017
- Open letter to the IMF on social protection
21 December 2017 - Working Group submission to the Human Rights Committee regarding General Comment 36 on the right to life, October 2017
- Interactive dialogue among 2 UN experts on women’s rights and young women’s rights activists, International Women's Day, 8 March 2017
2016
- Participation of the WG Chair in the 13th AWID Forum on Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice
- Participation of a WG member in the Simbolic Tribunal on Maternal Mortality and Obstetric Violence co-organised by the OHCHR in Mexico and the Working Group
2015
- Inputs from the WGDAW to the Global Study on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325
- Participation of a member of the Working Group in the expert consultation on gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment organized by the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Participation of a WG member in OHCHR global seminar on the human rights of migrant domestic workers in an irregular situation, titled “Behind closed doors”
- Joint Statement by UN human rights experts*, the Rapporteur on the Rights of Women of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Special Rapporteurs on the Rights of Women and Human Rights Defenders of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights - 24 September 2015
- Joint letter to the President of the Human Rights Council regarding the protection of the family