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The 63^rdCommission of the Status of Women kicked off last week in the UN General Assembly Hall in New York. The Commission opened the session, elected officers, and began to discuss how social protection systems, public services and sustainable infrastructure empower women and girls.

What does this mean? It means feeling safe walking to the market, or through parks, or having access to clean water. It means public health centres and affordable childcare. It means a pension in old age and public housing for survivors of domestic abuse.

Since the inception of the CSW, monumental progress has been made to integrate gender equality into everyday international thought and action. But women and girls around the world continue to face disproportionate burdens, gender biases and systemic discrimination, which hinder their autonomy, impede their access to justice, and obstruct their fundamental human rights.

Women’s representation in political decision-making continues to rise slowly, with slight improvements since 2017, according to the data presented in the 2019 edition of the biennial IPU-UN Women map of Women in Politics. 

Another of the main events taking place on 14 March was the 2019 Women’s Empowerment Principles Forum, wherein gender equality in the workplace was discussed. “Within too many organizations, women’s leadership continues to be perceived as a risk, rather than an opportunity. Today, at this WEPs Forum, Gender Equality must be understood and prioritized like the economic and business imperative that it is.” – Lise Kingo, executive director of the United Nations Global Compact.

Prime Production has provided simultaneous and Consecutive interpreting at over a dozen CSW meetings during the past week in French, Portuguese, Arabic & Spanish.