WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY

On the occasion of the International Day on Education, the Geneva Centre will organize an online panel event “Defending Women and Girls’ Right to Education: Current Challenges and Perspectives”, on 24 January 2023.

On the occasion of the 49th session of the Human Rights Council, the Geneva Centre in collaboration with European Public Law Organization (EPLO), organized an online panel event “Promoting equal rights and women’s participation towards peace”, on 23 March 2022.

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue will hold a virtual event to celebrate the commitment, the courage, the empowerment and the determination of millions of ordinary women and men who do extraordinary things in order to promote a society based on gender equality and respect for women’s rights.

To mark International Women’s Day, celebrated worldwide on 8 March, and to officially launch its latest publications on women and gender equality in the Arab world and beyond, entitled Women’s Rights in the Arab Region: Between Myth and Reality and Veiling /Unveiling: The Headscarf in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, issued in February 2019, the Geneva Centre organized a debate and book presentation.

The event sought to counter misconceptions, to deconstruct stereotypes and to show the role of the headscarf as a bridge between cultures and religions, rather than as an alien practice giving rise to divergence, intolerance or exclusion. The goal was to shed light on the history and the true symbolism of the headscarf today.

The panel discussion, organized as a side-event to the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council, sought to objectively measure progress in the Arab region on the status of women in relation to the recent past, with a view to providing impetus for the further advancement of their status.

Women’s rights and gender equality have been at the heart of the international agenda over the past few years. This intensification of the movement for women’s rights has been driven, in part, by the anniversaries of some of the core international instruments on gender.

The Geneva Centre co-convened one of the 16 side-events composing the Geneva NGO Forum and focusing on the 12 core themes set out illo tempore by the Beijing Conference. The interactive roundtable, entitled “Men and Boys – In Solidarity for Gender Equality”, took place on 4th November, and was moderated by Mr. Ricardo Espinosa.