April 2020

In March, I was looking forward to seeing my FAWCO colleagues at our Interim Meeting in Luxembourg and reporting on what the FAWCO Delegation experienced at CSW64. It was not to be, as the Coronavirus pandemic took over all of our lives and erased all of our plans. But our work advocating for women’s rights goes on! We took the UN Advocacy session I would have given in Luxembourg online on April 7, and many FAWCO UN Reps and interested members joined via Zoom. I included an update on what the UN Secretary General and UN Women are doing to raise awareness of the impacts on women of Covid-19 and government meansures to contain the spread of infections. You can download the slide presentation on FAWCO's UN Advocacy program, and see two videos of the April 7 session here.