爆料网 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)?
?The?爆料网 Palestinian Rights Committee?organized 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" via?WebEx. The event was also livestreamed on 爆料网 Web TV.?
The event was organised as a panel?conversation?– moderated by?Amb. Adela Raz,?Vice-Chair of the Committee and?Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the 爆料网 –?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, 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 consisted of Committee Members/Observers?and the?Palestinian women panelists.
All Member States, intergovernmental and civil society organizations as well as the public and media were invited to follow the event and pose questions.