{"id":753,"date":"2019-03-25T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/?p=753"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:55:36","slug":"753-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/753-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 Commission on the Status of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering- RDFL was represented by its Head of Communications and Campaigning, Hayat Mirshad, in the sixty-third session of the\u00a0Commission on the Status of Women<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019.<\/p>\n

Mirshad was a speaker in three different side events and workshops organized by different partners, UN agencies and INGOs. Mirshad spoke in a session about engaging with national and local governments on GBV during a workshop organized by CARE international for GBV AoR Task Team on Localization, she also presented RDFL\u2019s work and strategies to end child marriage in Lebanon during an event titled \u201cResponding to Child, Early and Forced Marriage in the MENA Region\u201d which was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Jordan to the UN and hosted by the Institute for Women\u2019s Studies in the Arab World, in collaboration with UNFPA, Arab Women Organization and CARE International. In addition, Mirshad was a speaker in a very interactive and dynamic panel organized by Women Deliver and titled \u201cDoes Humanitarian Aid Need a Feminist Facelift?\u201d, where she stressed on the behalf of RDFL the importance of the localization agenda and strengthening the role of feminist organizations to fight for women\u2019s rights locally. During the session, Women Deliver also announced \u00a0five women-focused civil society
\norganizations (CSOs) in Lebanon who have been selected to participate in the organization\u2019s new Humanitarian Advocates Program. They are: the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering, the Lebanon Family Planning Association, Marsa Sexual Health Center, the Palestinian Women\u2019s Humanitarian Organization,\u00a0and Women Now for Development.<\/p>\n

Humanitarian Advocates<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n