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SUMMARY:Bringing CSW Home: Solutions to Strengthen Civic Space and Women’s Digital Rights
DESCRIPTION:Amidst growing resistance\, regression\, and pushback on gender equality\, join us for a discussion on the ‘Solutions to Strengthen Civic Space and Women’s Digital Rights’. Let us take stock of recent developments and challenges and share experiences\, lessons learned\, and ideas from the Nordic context to explore the role Nordic countries can play in addressing the pushback. \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \n\n\n\nModerator: Alexandra Pascalidou\, award-winning journalist\, author\, producer\, and TV hostess\, UN Women Sweden’s President.\nSpeakers: Representation from governments\, civil society\, private sector\, youth\, media\, and international organisations.\n\nThis virtual event is co-organised by the UN Women Nordic Liaison Office\, and Finnish\, Icelandic\, and Swedish National Committees.\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n13:30-13:35\nIntroduction: CSW67\n– Alexandra Pascalidou\, award-winning journalist\, author\, producer\, and TV hostess\, UN Women Sweden’s President\n\n13:35-13:40\nOpening Remarks: UN Women’s perspective on the global pushback on gender equality and how we can strengthen the civic space and women’s digital rights\n– Åsa Regnér\, UN Women Deputy Executive Director\n\n13:40-14:15\nSession 1: Share and discuss challenges\, experiences and solutions towards the pushback on gender equality from a Nordic perspective\n– Elinor Samuelsson\, Founder\, BrightAct\, Sweden\n– Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir\, National Commissioner of Police\, Iceland\n– Tawar Salari\, Generation Equality Youth Group Member\, Finland\n– Lars Engberg-Pedersen\, Senior Researcher at Danish Institute for International Studies\, Denmark\n\n14:15-14:55\nSession 2: How can the Nordic countries play a key role in responding to the pushback and better support women human rights defenders\, peacebuilders and members of civil society\, with a focus on online spaces\n– Jino Doabi\, Board Member\, Voice of Iran\, Denmark\n– Vita Volodovska\, Head of NGO Digital Security Lab\, Ukraine\n– Thomas Blomqvist\, Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Equality\, Finland\n– Zahra Mesbah\, Project Manager and Cultural Mediator\, Iceland\n\n14:55-15:00\nConclusion & Next Steps: Taking forward concrete solutions responding to the pushback on gender equality\n– Moderated by Alexandra Pascalidou\, award-winning journalist\, author\, producer\, and TV hostess\, UN Women Sweden’s President\n\n\nGlobal Context\n\n\n  \nOpposition to gender equality and to women’s rights activism has become more vocal\, global\, and better organised in recent years. Not only are there coordinated and well-resourced\, well-networked groups putting forward traditional\, patriarchal\, binary\, and hetero-normative constructs of men’s and women’s roles in society and polity\, but these notions are finding public legitimacy through political processes and rhetoric\, including from political leaders at the highest levels of governments. This challenge to long established international UN human rights frameworks norms and standards is playing out in policy making spaces nationally\, regionally\, and globally.\nAs a result\, we are seeing the hard-won gains on women’s rights currently under attack in fields as diverse as sexual and reproductive rights\, political participation\, the labour market\, care work\, and violence against women.\nTrends of de-democratisation have gone hand in hand with the articulated opposition to established standards of gender equality and the backsliding of previous gender equality policy gains. Women’s rights are significantly at threat particularly when such rights have been more recently established and where the space for civil society actors to defend them is limited and/or shrinking.\nThis situation is further aggravated by rampant misinformation and disinformation fuelled by technology and the surveillance\, censorship\, and violence enabled by the digital sphere.\nWomen are disproportionately targeted and suffer serious consequences as a result of online and technology-facilitated violence against women (TFVAW). The aggression faced by women and girls online also restricts their access to online services and tools\, affects their work and learning opportunities\, and deters their engagement as active digital citizens in important online spaces and dialogues. Women human rights defenders\, politicians and journalists are at greater risk of technology-facilitated violence\, as are women facing multiple discriminations. One of the consequences of online and technology-facilitated violence against women and girls is that victims/survivors silence themselves online\, which limits participation in public discourse\, resulting in a democratic deficit.\n\n  \nNordic Context\n  \nThe growing resistance\, regression\, and push-back on gender equality is taking place globally as well as in the Nordic context. In September 2022\, the Nordic Ministers for Gender Equality launched the Nordic Roadmap on Advancing Gender Equality\, Women’s and Girls Rights\, and Equal Rights of LGBTI-persons 2022-2024 outlining their commitment and response to the push-back and anti-gender movement.\nThe Nordic Roadmap is anchored by the Nordic Council of Ministers and serves as a framework to strengthen and elevate the common Nordic voice for gender equality\, women’s and girls’ rights\, and equal rights for LGBTI- persons internationally\, responding to three specific objectives:\na) To promote a common Nordic voice and communication\,\nb) To foster advocacy\, alliances and cooperation\,\nc) To exchange experiences.\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://un.dk/event/bringing-csw-home-solutions-to-strengthen-civic-space-and-womens-digital-rights/
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SUMMARY:Spotlighting Copenhagen Lived Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Black History Month for a panel discussion on the lived experiences of African/Afro-descendant UN colleagues in Copenhagen. \nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\nThis panel discussion aims to bring together a diverse group of experts and community leaders to explore the lived experiences of African/Afro-descendant colleagues in Copenhagen beyond their offices. It will also be an opportunity to provide a space for meaningful and respectful dialogue about anti-racism in Copenhagen\, addressing the challenges and opportunities in preventing racist and discriminatory acts\, and to inspire attendees to take action towards promoting equity and justice in their own lives and communities. \nPanellists (TBC) \n\nVivian Cintron – Communications Lead\, SCM Unit\, UNFPA\nFahad Saeed – Diversity Manager\, MungoPark\nFernando Navarro Sanchez – Ombudsman office\, UN City Copemhagen\nPeris Wambugu – Diversity and Inclusion Officer\, UNOPS\nCynthia Birikundavyi – Senior Diversity and Inclusion Officer\, UNHCR (Moderator)\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme \n10:00 Opening and introduction to the purpose and goals of the panel \n10:05 Brief introductions by each panellist highlighting their background and expertise \n10:25 Panel discussion allowing the panellists to share their perspectives and experiences \n11:00 Q&A session inviting all attendees to share their lived experiences and pose questions to the panellists \n11:25 Closing reflective remarks by the moderator and the panellists highlighting key takeaways and potential next steps for attendees to consider \nGuiding Questions \n\nHow has your lived experience as an African/Afro-descendant person been like in Copenhagen and what challenges have you faced in terms of racial discrimination and prejudice?\nWhat are the linkages you see between the UN City employee experience and social dynamics within Danish society?\nSince the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020\, more space has been created to discuss race and racial discrimination around the world. What have you personally learned?\nWe often talk about ‘zero tolerance’ to racial discrimination. What does it mean in practice?\nWhat are some examples of good practices you have seen locally?\nWhat do you think leaders and allies need to hear?\nHow do you define Duty of Care when it comes to providing support to colleagues who may be marginalised outside the office space.\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://un.dk/event/spotlighting-copenhagen-lived-experiences/
LOCATION:UN City\, Marmorvej 51\, Copenhagen\, 2100\, Denmark
CATEGORIES:Black History Month
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SUMMARY:docUNight: A Girl from Mogadishu
DESCRIPTION:Join us on International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)\, 6 February for a screening of the movie “A Girl from Mogadishu” and an introduction to global and regional initiatives to eliminate the practice of FGM. \nRegistration Closed\nFood and drinks will be available to buy in the UN City Café from 17.00-18.00. \n18.00: Welcome by moderator Flemming Johannesen\, Head of UN City Communications \n18.03: Panel introduction to the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation \nPanellists*: \n– Pernille Fenger\, Director\, UNFPA Nordic Office \n– Ambassador of Sweden to Denmark\, H.E. Charlotte Wrangberg \n– Member of Parliament (Tbc) \n18.30: Screening of “A Girl from Mogadishu” \n20.30: Interview with Ifrah Ahmed \n21.00: End of Programme \n*Panellists will be available for questions and answers after the screening. \n\n\n\n\nBackground \nFemale genital mutilation (FGM) has existed as a practice for more than 2\,000 years and comprises all procedures that involve altering or injuring the female genitalia for non-medical reasons and is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights\, the health and the integrity of girls and women. \nGirls who undergo female genital mutilation face short-term complications such as severe pain\, shock\, excessive bleeding\, infections\, and difficulty in passing urine\, as well as long-term consequences for their sexual and reproductive health and mental health. \nAlthough the practice has been around for more than a thousand years\, there are reasons to think that female genital mutilation could end in a single generation. That is why the United Nations strives for its full eradication by 2030\, following the spirit of Sustainable Development Goal 5. \nSince 2008\, UNFPA\, jointly with UNICEF\, leads the largest global programme to accelerate the elimination of female genital mutilation. The Joint Programme currently focuses on 17 countries in Africa and the Middle East and also supports regional and global initiatives. \nAbout the movie \nCircumcised at eight. Raped by wandering militiamen at twelve. Fully infibulated again at thirteen\, and then married off to a fifty-year-old man who regularly beat her; Ifrah Ahmed runs away to a place she had once known as home in war torn Mogadishu to find it had become the kind of battleground now known as ‘Black Hawk Down’. Ifrah makes the extraordinary journey out of war-torn Somalia and arrives not in Minnesota\, USA\, as she had been lead to believe\, but Dublin\, Ireland. \nFinally finding some sense of safety\, her fears begin to subside and her traumatic days\, she thinks\, are behind her\, until a routine medical smear test elicits such looks of horror on the faces of her Irish doctors that she suffers a profound sense of shame. They say that anger is the flip side of shame. Channelling the feelings on both sides of that coin\, she reacts incredibly quickly\, learns English at break-neck speed and unearths an enviable technical talent for harnessing social media. \nWithin months she is campaigning for better conditions for asylum – seekers arriving in Ireland. She quickly becomes a leading activist against gender-based violence and fights through her campaign work for the abandonment of FGM world-wide. As an Irish citizen\, she presents her testimony on behalf of Ireland’s MEPs on the occasion of the ratification of the UN Convention against FGM/C at the European Parliament and it is passed unanimously. \nThus commences her now lauded professional career as an international activist. \nRegistration Closed\n\nSubscribe to our newsletter for future events: Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Email *PhoneSubscribe
URL:https://un.dk/event/docunight-a-girl-from-mogadishu/
LOCATION:UN City\, Marmorvej 51\, Copenhagen\, 2100\, Denmark
CATEGORIES:docUNight
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