UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People?
VIRTUAL?EVENT?
On the margins of CSW?
¡°Women, Peace and Security and Beijing+25:?Progress and Challenges for Women and Girls in Palestine¡±?
Wednesday,?10 March?2021, 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. (NY Time)?
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The?UN Palestinian Rights Committee?will?organize?the?Virtual?Event?on the margins of the?sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)?on?¡°Women, Peace and Security and Beijing+25: Progress and Challenges for Women and Girls in Palestine¡± on?10 March?2021?from 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. (New York Time),?via?WebEx. The event will also be livestreamed on UN Web TV.?
The event will be organised as a panel?conversation?¨C moderated by?Amb. Adela Raz,?Vice-Chair of the Committee and?Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the UN ¨C?with three?Palestinian women officials and civil society representatives, from different regions of the occupied Palestinian territory and across generations.?Ms. Hind Khoury, former Palestinian Minister?for?Jerusalem?and?Ambassador to France; H.E. Amal?Jadou,?Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; and?Ms. Nour?Swirki, activist and journalist in Gaza,?will shed light on the?unique situation of Palestinian women under occupation?as well as on?their roles and actions within Palestinian society and institutions to end the occupation, while emphasizing ways for the international community to provide support, including through the CSW.?
Participants will consist of Committee Members/Observers?and the?Palestinian women panelists.
All Member States, intergovernmental and civil society organizations as well as the public and media will be invited to follow the event and pose questions. While participation in the virtual platform will be limited to UN Member and Observer States as well as the?panellists, the general public can send their questions via the Committee?,?, the email?dpr-meeting@un.org?and WhatsApp (+1 646 421 0579).?
Viewers are encouraged to?use the hashtags?#Rights4Palestine?and?#GenerationEquality?on their social media and to tag the Committee¡¯s social?media pages using Twitter & Instagram:?@UNISPAL, Facebook:?@UN.palestinianrights.?
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