We’re delighted to announce that Orchid Project will be present at the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). CSW representatives of Member States, UN entities, and non-governmental organisations from around the world will all convene at the United Nations Headquarters in New York between March 11th to 22nd. We will all be gathering with the same objective in mind: “accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.”
You’ll find us at the following events that we are organising or supporting:
Side event: Financing the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation.
The Government of Italy – in collaboration with the Governments of Burkina Faso and the United Kingdom, together with the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, the World Bank, and the Girl Generation – Support to the Africa-led Movement to end FGM/C (TGG-ALM).
Please RSVP for the High-Level Panel CSW68 side event here.
Date: 12 March 2024
1:15 PM to 2:30 PM ET
Location: Conference Room 12, UN Secretariat
Virtual Event- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Asia: Evidence and Funding
Register here.
Date: 13 March 2024
8:00 AM to 9:30 AM ET
Location: Conference Room 12, UN Secretariat
Parallel event: From Rhetoric to Reality: Closing the Funding Gap to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
Jointly with the Global Platform for Action to end FGM/C.
Here is the registration link: https://secure.everyaction.com/qcmutGX6KUm_I5he9-X19w2
Date: 15 March 2024
4:30 PM – 6:00 pm ET
Location: CCUN 10th Floor
