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Live Twitter Q&A: Making women’s voices heard from Beijing to Post-2015 in social media

Twitter Q&A Join the conversation on 12 March for a live Twitter chat in the lead up to the event below! Follow #WomenSpeak from 10-11am EST/4-5pm GMT+1 See also: recent Wikigender online discussion on “Advancing women’s rights through social media: which strategies?” (11-20 February) 17 March: side event This side event is organised by the […]

  • March 5, 2015
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59 session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

The fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 – 20 March 2014. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world attend the session. Table of Contents 1 Priority theme 2 Review […]

  • March 5, 2015
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2015 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate; suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the sometimes contentious nature of Wikipedia’s talk pages. The practical effect […]

  • February 20, 2015
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World Conference of Women’s Shelters

The Global Network of Women’s Shelters (GNWS), the Dutch Foundation of Women’s Shelters and its partners organise the 3rd World Conference of Women’s Shelters from 3-6 November 2015 in The Hague – the Netherlands. Previous conferences were successful but continuous action is crucial: violence against women and children still occurs on a large scale and […]

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