CSW 70
Priority theme: Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers
Review theme: Women’s full and effective participation and decision making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
Please read the Statement submitted by The US Women’s Caucus here:
CSW70 Official NGO Statement on Justice for Women
Justice for Women Briefs
Summary of CSW70 Justice for Women Briefs
US Women’s Caucus members have prepared a series of short two page “Justice for Women” Briefs:
Paid Family Leave and Benefits in the US
LGBTQ+ Youth in the K-12 Education System
Law Enforcement Responses to Crimes Against Women
The Rights of Migrant Women in the Unites States
The Criminalization of Abortion in the United States
Barriers to Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
CEDAW- A framework Guaranteeing Women’s Access to Justice
Affordable Childcare and Women’s Workforce Participation
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
CSW70 Report- Bridging the Health Gap for Women and Girls
Dr. Graciela Soto, Clinical Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and USWC Board member, prepared a special presentation for the CSW70 Consultation in Geneva. She addressed the health issues that affect women worldwide. Some of the findings of her report were:
- Where are women’s health burdens coming from?
– 47% of the world’s health burden stems from conditions that affect women disproportionately (headaches, depression, autoimmune diseases).
– 4% stem from conditions that affect women different (arterial fibrillation, colon cancer).
– 5% stem from gynecological conditions.
– 43% stem from conditions that do not affect women disproportionally (chronic diseases- cardiac diseases, diabetes, hypertension)
- Women live longer but spend 25% of their lives in poor condition compared to men.
- There are huge gender healthcare gaps between men and women including the facts that:
- Research studies do not acknowledge gender differences.
- There is not enough data on women’s health.
- There are vast inequalities in healthcare delivery.
To see the presentation, please click here.