The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018. The 2018 themes are:
Priority theme:
Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls;
Review theme:
Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women (agreed conclusions of the forty-seventh session);
Below are side events that GATJ will be co-hosting or in attendance. Keep it here for regular updates on these side events.
Sponsor – GATJ and partners
Title: Tax and gender justice – empowering rural women in mining-affected communities
The event will take place at:
Date: 13-March
Time: 10:30 AM
Venue: Church Center for the United Nations
Room: Tenth Floor
Sponsor: Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s, Faculty Of Law, Queen’s University, Canada
Title: Taxing Rural Women in Developing Countries: Worst and best practices
Your event will take place at:
Date: 13-Mar
Time: 12:30 PM
Venue: 4 W 43rd Street
Room: Gallery
